Control vs Collecty
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
Collecty
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Stop scattering notes across ten different apps. Collecty is where everything you want to keep ends up: a quick note, a link, a photo, a file, a recording, an event. Tap +, choose what to save, and each thing becomes a card on your board, ready when you need it again. COLLECT ANYTHING Written notes, links, images, PDFs and documents, voice notes, events. Save from other apps with the iOS share sheet: whatever you're reading lands in Collecty without leaving where you are. Tap a saved link to see its preview right away: image, description, tags and colors. FIND IT BY TAG AND BY COLOR AI tags everything you save and reads the colors of your photos, drawings, links and files. With Explore, pick a topic, slide across the rainbow, and your collection lines up by the color you have in mind: that green sofa, that red photo, that recipe you saw weeks ago. INSPIRATION FROM THE WEB From the color or tag you're looking at, find similar photos on the web and save them in one tap, with the photographer's credit. Or run the same search on Pinterest, Instagram, X and TikTok, or look up an image with Google Lens. AN EDITOR THAT KEEPS UP Headings and subheadings, bold and italic, bulleted and numbered lists, checklists, tables, images, colors. It saves itself as you type. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY Sort things into collections with a name and a color. Pin what matters, and archive what you don't need right now without deleting it. Choose how to see your notes: grid, list or canvas. Select several items at once to move, lock, archive or share them. And search that actually finds things, inside the text of every note. BRING IN WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE Import your notes from other apps as Markdown or plain text: Notion, Obsidian, Bear and any app that exports .md or .txt. Export whenever you like as PDF, Markdown or text. MADE FOR iOS Liquid Glass design, light and dark themes, iPhone and iPad. Quick to open, easy to use. COLLECTY PRO The Pro plan unlocks: Collecty AI: rewrites, proofreads, summarizes, translates, expands, writes titles and files your notes for you. 100 AI credits a month. Auto-tagging and Explore: AI tags your collection and reads its colors, so you can find anything by topic and by color. At a Glance: tags and colors for any item in one panel, with similar items in your collection, similar photos on the web and Google Lens search. Voice notes: record on the go and turn your voice into text. Locked notes: protect what nobody else should read with Face ID or Touch ID. Drawings: a freehand sketch right inside your note. Shared collections: invite anyone and work together on the same collection. Apple Calendar: your events alongside your notes, and AI that pulls dates and plans out of your text. 250 GB of storage for your attachments, instead of 5 GB. Without Pro, Collecty is fully usable: notes, attachments, collections, archive, search, import and export are all included, with 5 GB of storage. Your subscription renews automatically. You can manage or cancel it at any time in your App Store account settings. Privacy: https://www.appcollecty.com/privacy Terms: https://www.appcollecty.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Collecty at 18.0 against Control's 26.2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Control sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Collecty sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Control ships an update every 6 days, Collecty every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Control | Collecty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Patrick Palacean | Filippo Zanfini |
In-app purchases
Control
- Control Lifetime$9.99
Collecty
- Collecty Pro (monthly)7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Collecty Pro (yearly)7 Days trial$34.991 Year









