Contact Energy vs Data Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contact Energy
Monitor your electricity and gas usage with detailed historical data. Easily view your account balance, pay bills, and review transaction history. Manage your energy plan, update household details, and add new services.
- Track energy usage history (15 months)
- View account balance
- Pay bills and view transactions (12 months)
- Manage and change energy plans
- Update household details
- Add new services
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The Contact app makes it easy to track your usage, and understand your bills. Other handy features: -Track Your Energy Usage: Review your energy usage history for up to the past 15 months. -Account Balance: Keep an eye on your account balance. -Bill Payments & Transactions: Pay your bills and access transaction history for up to the past 12 months. -Manage Your Plan: change your plan or add another service as per your needs. Household set up changed? You can also update your details, add new services or change plans.
Data Clock
Purchase mobile data in flexible amounts, from small top-ups to larger bundles, to use whenever you need it. This service is perfect for bridging gaps between plan renewals or for occasional data needs, with affordable options available.
- Buy data in small or large amounts
- Use data whenever you want
- Ideal for long trips or waiting
- Bridge gaps until plan renews
- Affordable pricing options
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Buy data in small or large amounts to be used whenever you want. It’s ideal for long bus rides, waiting rooms or getting you through until your plan renews. It’s also good for when things get tight, with prices starting at under $1 for 15 minutes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Contact Energy at free against Data Clock's free with in-app purchases. Data Clock's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Contact Energy against 4.7 for Data Clock. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 80 and 138 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 29% and 30% positive.
Contact Energy ships an update every 6 weeks, Data Clock every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 20, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contact Energy | Data Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (80 ratings) | 4.7 (138 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.9% of reviews | 29.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 80 | 138 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Contact Energy limited | 2degrees Mobile |
Customer experience
Contact Energy
Data Clock
User reviews
Contact Energy
From 80 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and understand
- 👍 Good customer service
- 👍 Ability to track power usage
- 👍 Simple navigation
- 👍 Good for submitting meter reads
Room to improve
- 🐛 Constantly glitchy and unstable
- 🐛 Unable to log in frequently
- 🐛 App is often days behind on data
- 🐛 Payment issues and errors
- 🐛 Slow loading times
Data Clock
From 138 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💰 Affordable data pricing compared to competitors
- ⏰ Free hourly data allowance saves money
- 📱 Simple and easy-to-use interface
- 🎮 Data Piñata gamification feature engaging
- 🌐 Good network coverage in remote areas
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and errors
- ⚠️ Constant 'maintenance' downtime
- 🔌 Requires internet to purchase more data
- 📵 App won't load on mobile data only
- ⏳ Slow data processing and syncing
Bugs and requests
Contact Energy
Reported bugs
56 issues- Constantly glitching
- Unable to log in
- App is days behind on data
- Payment errors
- Slow loading times
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- Usage data not updating
- Frozen screens after updates
- Autofill for payments not working
- Crashes during account-to-account payments
- Download issues on iPhone
- Switching between properties is buggy
- Usage graphs poorly designed
- Cannot supply meter readings
- Estimated readings instead of actual
- App is an embedded website
- Usage data is always days behind
- Frozen screens after updates
- Autofill for payments not working
- Crashes during account-to-account payments
- No response via WhatsApp
- App crashes or doesn't allow login for weeks
- Cannot access online account
- Glitchy and crashes frequently
- Unable to view power bill
- Painful login process
- Password manager issues
- Blank notification screens
- App icon shows unread notifications but none are present
- Cannot register due to terms and conditions field issue
- Download pop-up instead of download on iPhone
- App redirects to itself when trying to sign in online
- Daily usage data not current, dollar amount missing
- Hour by hour usage greyed out unless over a week old
- New version doesn't display graph properly
- No way to see amount of power paid for, only total used/free
- Latest version keeps signing out
- Meter reading option is greyed out
- Unable to check daily usage after update
- Only shows gas usage after update, not electricity
- Latest version does not function, frozen
- New app 3.1 doesn't work, frozen front screen, no login
- New App doesn't work, nothing works, usage section empty
- Update frozen, nothing works
- App upgrade - nothing opens or loads
- Website always directs to the app, creating a loop
- App POS, crashes when using account to account payment
- Cannot change password to get in
- Often flashes back and cannot load to the next step
- Payment page goes back to beginning after security code
- Energy usage not updating
- Most of the time pays delayed due to app crashing or not allowing login
- Sluggish, takes over 40 seconds to render information
- Any movement triggers app refresh with delay
- Cannot access online account
- App never allows login
- Login stops working since last update
Requested features
10 requests- Toggle to include GST in usage amounts
- Save card details for payments
- Support for Apple Pay and PayPal
- Push notification for bill payment reminders
- Display solar buy back information
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- Improved functionality for switching between properties
- Breakdown of electricity usage by category
- Allow landscape mode on tablets
- Alert for power usage exceeding a set KW per day
- Alert for running cost reaching a certain $ amount
Data Clock
Reported bugs
16 issues- App displays 'Yikes! Something went wrong' error repeatedly
- Sidebar screen stuck issue
- Blank screen when purchasing data
- Registration code verification failing
- Login code timeout and delivery delays
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- Free hour not appearing in account
- Data Piñata winnings not credited
- App logs out during holiday periods
- Number keyboard appearing unexpectedly
- Glitching prevents scrolling
- Top-up balance not refreshing
- App requires deregistration/reregistration to sync balance
- Free hour not showing for some users
- Data Clock unavailable during peak times
- Cannot purchase data packs - redirects to App Store loop
- Hotspot data consumption issue
Requested features
10 requests- Lock screen widget showing remaining time
- Pause button to stop data consumption
- In-app Data Piñata game instead of external link
- Automatic cycling codes for Data Piñata
- Notification reliability improvements
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- Cellular iPad support
- 4G instead of 3G for free data
- Data usage monitor within app
- Maintenance notifications to users
- Longer data pack duration options
In-app purchases
Contact Energy
No in-app purchases
Data Clock
No in-app purchases
