Kilowatt User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience81.0% of reviews
Neutral16.7% of reviews
Negative experience2.4% of reviews

~ Based on 42 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Top reviews

Best EV app out there

This just works a treat

Un applicatif très utile !

4 ans déjà que je l’utilise pour calculer mes dépenses d’électricité pour ma VE, et c’est super pratique. Je n’ai pas trouvé ma nouvelle voiture Kia EV4 grande autonomie, j’ai dû la créer moi même. Dommage qu à la création je ne puisse la mettre batterie de 81.4kwh mais 81,5… mes félicitations pour cette application gratet utile
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Response from developer

Merci pour votre aimable avis ! J’ai bien noté votre suggestion et je vais me pencher sur la modification de la batterie !

Useful

Very useful app for EV car users. Have been using for more than 6 months and so far very convenient to keep track of monthly bills.

Response from developer

That’s great to hear! Thanks for the review it’s much appreciated

Editing rates

Can’t edit rates. Keyboard appears and screen doesn’t slide up and allow edit of the rate.

Nice, but Some bugs

The calculation for consumption is in metric even if you choose Miles.

Response from developer

Oh no! Good catch, that bug might have slipped in in a recent version then. I’ll have a look at that and hopefully we can fix this soon. Thanks for taking the time to send in your feedback! Update: the latest version of the app should fix this 5.0.2

Sehr nützliche App…

…, um die Ladeplanung zu optimieren

Response from developer

Glad you like it!

Tolles Update

Ich nutze die App gerne. Danke für das tolle Update. Jetzt ist es noch flexibler.

Response from developer

I’m very happy you like the new custom vehicle templates! Thanks for the feedback.

Sehr guter Helfer

Kann ich ohne Bedenken weiterempfehlen.

Response from developer

Danke!

Perfect

Exactly what I needed to work out how long a charge would take and how much it would cost before starting a charge. You can change the charger/speed and start a timer if needed. Perfect!
Would be five stars if could calculate day/night rates together

Response from developer

Thank you for your kind review, i'll put day night rates on the backlog. No promises but noted at least

Perfect

Exactly what I needed to work out how long a charge would take and how much it would cost before starting a charge. You can change the charger/speed and start a timer if needed. Perfect!

A

Hi, die App ist super, vielleicht kann noch Ampere hinzugefügt werden? Bei Tesla werden die Werte in Ampere eingestellt.
Dann muss ich nicht umrechnen.

Response from developer

Ah that’s an interesting idea. Yeah perhaps I could add that in settings. Thanks for the feedback!

Müsste Temperatur abhängig Laden unterstützen sonst zu ungenau

Geht so vielleicht im Sommer genauer

Response from developer

While it makes sense as a feature I’m not sure how accurate this could get. The range loss is very dependent on the technical architecture of the specific car and there are no good sources on these car details available I’m afraid. Cars that have more modern batteries or have battery pre heating for instance might have much less loss in the winter than other models. Best I could do I a slider in settings that would allow you to set the range loss percentage yourself perhaps.

Still can’t do custom rate.

Even after the update on 20 Dec I’m still finding I cannot add some rates. I can add anything up to 6.6kwh but I cannot add 6.7, 6.8, 6.9 etc so AC. when I do they just het added as 6.6kwh. So I can’t use the app as times are way out. I can however add them if I add them to DC charging. Weird.

Response from developer

Update: the dec 20 update simply allows you to save the different rates e.g. what it costs, the charge speeds you could already save. Both dc and ac are limited to the max speed of the selected car. If your car cannot charge at more than 6.6 kWh it will be limited to that speed. Maybe in your case the car has faster charge infrastructure than I have set in the data. Or the charge curve is better or has improved over what I have. Please remember that this will always be an estimate not an exact number. Hi Andy, those are some great feature suggestions. Showing the current estimated percentage is something on my todo so hopefully I will be able to add that soon. As for your question; yes you could try adding a custom charger for a slightly higher speed. That might get you a more exact estimate. Sadly it's impossible to be correct for every situation there are just too many factors at play. The current weather, the state of the battery, whether you drove fast before charging or not are all things that might influence the actual charging time. So the estimate is meant as an average that will still be helpful in most situations I hope!

The most useful EV app

I frequently use this convenient app. Since I rely on public charging, it’s invaluable to quickly determine whether it's worth the hassle of driving a little farther for a cheaper charge and calculate the difference in cost. My one request is to be able to change the start time. This would be useful as many of the charges near me have cheap overnight rates, and being able to see what the Soc is at the end of that cheaper time would be useful.
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Response from developer

Thank you for the generous review! I’ve had this request more often, it’s an interesting use case. I’ll have to figure out a way to make this happen without complicating things for everyone else though. I’ll think about it, thanks.

Times are a little off.

I’m still finding that your app tells me a charge from 18% to 82% would take 3h42 yet in reality it takes 3hr13. It says a 7.4kwh charger will charge at 6.6kwh, but mine must be charging quicker. Settings are a little all over the place. Nice looking app but I just can’t use it until it reflects the correct charge time/rate. My car is a Nissan Leaf 2nd gen 2021. I just wish there was an option to change the charge rate so that I could tweak it to the correct rate.
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Response from developer

Hi Andy, those are some great feature suggestions. Showing the current estimated percentage is something on my todo so hopefully I will be able to add that soon. As for your question; yes you could try adding a custom charger for a slightly higher speed. That might get you a more exact estimate. Sadly it's impossible to be correct for every situation there are just too many factors at play. The current weather, the state of the battery, whether you drove fast before charging or not are all things that might influence the actual charging time. So the estimate is meant as an average that will still be helpful in most situations I hope!

Shane

This app works perfectly as indicated, it is extremely easy to use and is very useful.
I would suggest as a possible update, the ability to add additional cars (as I have 2 ev’s) and the ability to store charge data.

Super !!!!! Funktioniert klasse !!

Timer funktioniert super, und wenn man die Einstellung der Ladestärke richtig angepasst, stimmt der Timer bis auf wenige Minuten.
Einfach und übersichtlich- einfach toll!

Danke für die gute App !!!!

Response from developer

Thanks for the kind words. Enjoy the app!

Kurztest

Es kommt egal mit welcher Einstellung kein Signalton nach Ablauf der Zeit

Response from developer

The app should have an alarm sound, in fact you can now pick a custom sound as well. I have not had any other reports where this did not work. Maybe try the latest version, hopefully that resolves your issue!

bon appli mais pas de phev.

dommage de pas avoir les phev dans la liste des vehicules. sinon bonne appli et bien réalisée.

exemple : tucson phev 13,4kw

Response from developer

Sorry about that, I chose to focus on BEV car models only for this app. Hope you can still get some use out of it.

Bornes 120 kw

Votre application passe de 100 à 150 mais à côté de chez moi il y a une borne à 120 !!
Dommage !

Response from developer

Je suis ravi de vous informer que l'application vous permet d'ajouter vos propres vitesses de charge personnalisées. Il suffit de vous rendre dans l'onglet des chargeurs et de cliquer sur le bouton plus pour ajouter d'autres chargeurs.