Comparison

Control vs Offhand

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Control

Consolidate your daily trackers, planners, and reminders into a single, elegant app. Monitor habits, budgets, fitness, and more directly from your Home Screen, Lock Screen, or Live Activities. Enjoy a private experience with all data stored locally and synced via iCloud.

Highlights
  • 20+ customizable iOS widgets
  • Track habits, budget, fitness, and more
  • Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Live Activities support
  • Private data storage on device
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • No sign-ups or dark patterns
Features
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Your Home Screen, redesigned. Control is a library of 20+ beautifully crafted iOS widgets - every tracker, planner, and reminder you actually use, gathered in one app. Habits, budget, fitness, medication, birthdays, travel, and much more, all glanceable from your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Live Activities. No more juggling ten single-purpose apps. No sign-ups, no dark patterns. - TRACK EVERYTHING - • Habits - daily routines, streaks, goals • Budget - spending, savings, monthly limits • Subscriptions - see exactly what's recurring and when • Portfolio - track your investments • Debt - loans and credit cards, payoff progress • Currency - live exchange rates between any two currencies • Fitness - steps, workouts, calories burned via Apple Health • Calories - daily intake, weight goals • Period - cycle tracking with predictions • Medication - dose reminders for every prescription • Birthdays - pulled from Contacts, never forget another one • Books - what you're reading, with auto-fetched covers • Movies - your watchlist with poster art • Pets - feeding, walks, vet visits • Vehicle - mileage, services, fuel logs • Hotel & Travel - live check-out countdowns and trip dashboards • Past Trips - a souvenir of where you've been • Food Expiration - what's in your fridge and when it spoils • Game Tracker - leaderboards plus a multi-touch player picker • Speedometer - live drive sessions • Clipboard - quick-paste from history • To-do - checklists that sync across devices • Quit Tracker - sober days, money saved, life regained - PRIVATE BY DEFAULT - Everything is stored on your device and synced privately through your own iCloud account. No external servers. No tracking. No analytics SDKs. Your habits, finances, and reminders are yours. Control is built for people who want their Home Screen to do something useful. - Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Offhand

Capture tasks and notes using your voice and have them automatically organized. This app leverages on-device AI to process your spoken input, creating actionable tasks or simple notes without sending data off your phone. Optional Pro features enhance integration and convenience.

Highlights
  • Voice-to-task conversion
  • Automatic task categorization
  • Note-taking and searching
  • Scheduled task reminders
  • Task and note organization
  • Optional Calendar and iCloud sync
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Say it Offhand. Press the Action Button, say what you have to do, tap Save. A model on your iPhone reads the note and files each task under Morning, Afternoon, Tonight or Anytime. If you named an hour, the task gets it. Not everything you say is a task. A thought with nothing to do stays a note. Notes are kept by day, and search finds them by the words you said. BEFORE YOU BUY: IT NEEDS AN iPHONE 15 PRO OR NEWER Offhand runs on Apple Intelligence. That needs an A17 Pro chip or newer. It is a separate requirement from iOS 26, and it is the one that matters. On an iPhone 14 or an iPhone 15, Offhand still records and transcribes, and files each note as one task with the time it named. It does not split a note into several tasks, mark what they are about, or offer groups. WHAT IT DOES • One note becomes separate tasks. "Call the dentist first thing, then pick up the dry cleaning this afternoon" is two tasks in two parts of the day. • A task that names a clock time alerts you at that time. A task that names only a day waits quietly on that day. • It marks what each task is about, like Groceries or Work. When five tasks of one kind pile up, it offers to make a group. Nothing moves until you tap. • Drag a card to another part of the day, or to another day. • Lists shows everything in one place: open tasks, completed tasks, notes, and a month of days. Search reads the whole note, not just the title. • After each capture, a receipt shows the words it heard. When it cannot find a task in what you said, it saves the note and says so. It does not invent one. NOTHING LEAVES THE PHONE, EXCEPT TWO SWITCHES YOU CAN TURN ON No account. No sign-in. No analytics, no third-party SDKs, no advertising. Offhand makes no network request of its own. Speech recognition, the model, your recordings, your transcripts and your list all stay on this device. The app works with the network off. Two optional switches, both off until you turn them on, hand data to Apple's own apps rather than to us: • Show in Calendar puts scheduled task titles into an "Offhand" calendar. If your iPhone syncs calendars to iCloud, those titles go where your calendar already goes. • iCloud Sync mirrors your list into your own private iCloud database. Your Apple account, nobody else's servers, no third party. Recordings have a second switch of their own, also off by default. Both switches are part of Pro. We do not run a server that could receive your data. THREE LANGUAGES, ONE AT A TIME Offhand listens in English, Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese. You pick one in Settings. It does not work out which language you are speaking, and it does not hear two at once. The app's own interface is translated into all three. PRO Offhand is free to download. Speaking, the Action Button, your list, notes and search stay free. Pro is an optional subscription, Monthly or Yearly, and it unlocks: • The Home Screen widget, the Lock Screen button and the Control Center control. Each shows or starts a note without opening the app. • Show in Calendar and iCloud Sync, the two switches above. • A second pass over each recording. Measured on a Mac over 620 recordings in Offhand's own format, it made about 12% fewer mistakes. The upgrade page names the price before anything is charged. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://offhandapp.com/privacy YOUR RECORDINGS Audio stays on this iPhone and is kept until you delete it. If you prefer, set it to be deleted after a week, 30 days or a year. The transcript is kept either way. Deleting an entry removes the note and its audio from the phone, and that cannot be undone.

Screenshots

Control4 screens
Offhand4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Offhand at 5.0 against Control's 4.5. Control's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Control sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Offhand sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Offhand holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Control versus Offhand: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControlOffhand
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.226.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlex Patrick PalaceanBunnyHop, LLC

Customer experience

Control

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Offhand

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Control

One-time1
  • Control Lifetime$9.99
2 purchases

Offhand

Subscriptions2
  • Offhand Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Offhand Pro Yearly7 Days trial$21.991 Year

Questions

Is Control free?
Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Offhand free?
Offhand is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Control or Offhand?
Offhand is rated higher. Control averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Offhand averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Control or Offhand have ads?
Neither Control nor Offhand shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Control or Offhand?
Control ships an update every 6 days, and Offhand every 6 days. Most recently, Control was updated on October 16, 2026 and Offhand on October 16, 2026.

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