Comparison

Avista vs Lockey

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

Head to head
About

Avista

Manage your energy account conveniently from your mobile device. View account summaries, pay bills, and get real-time outage information. Sign in securely with your online account credentials.

Highlights
  • Easy sign-in with myavista.com credentials
  • View real-time account balance and bill history
  • Securely pay bills
  • Interactive outage map with restoration information
  • Report power outages
  • Manage billing and outage alerts
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Access your energy account anywhere, anytime with Avista’s free mobile app. Whether at home or on the go, Avista customers can enjoy these convenient features: EASY SIGN IN • Sign in to the app using your myavista.com account credentials • If you do not have a myavista.com online account, create one to use with the mobile app and myavista.com • You can even use Touch ID or Face ID to sign in on supported devices • Choose "Remember me" to skip entering your email every time you sign in ACCOUNT SUMMARY • View your real-time account balance, payment due date, and balance details • Access your bill and payment history • Download your bill as a PDF • Easily switch between multiple accounts PAY YOUR BILL • Securely make immediate or scheduled payments • Add or remove payment methods from your wallet OUTAGE INFORMATION • View the interactive outage map, complete with area weather, regional outage information, and restoration information • Check outage status and track restoration progress • Report a power outage • See status of specific outages, including estimated restoration times • Search the outage map by address • Know when a crew is on site working to repair the outage CONVENIENT ALERTS • Sign up for and manage in-app push notifications for billing reminders or outage events You must be an Avista customer to use the app and report outages Data rates may apply.

About

Lockey

Features
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Lockey keeps your control of a sensitive document after you send it. Upload one time. Share many times. Track for all time. WHY LOCKEY IS DIFFERENT When you send a document by email or by chat, you lose control of the file. The other person can keep it, copy it and send it to more persons. Lockey does not send your file. Lockey sends a link to a protected view. HOW YOU USE IT 1. Add a document. Use the camera, the photo library or a file on your device. Then you set the four corners, you turn the page and you make the image straight. 2. Look at the scan. Lockey finds the sensitive fields, for example an ID number or a date of birth. You approve each field that you want to hide. 3. Make a link. Give the purpose, an expiry date, a maximum quantity of views and a password. 4. Send the link. The other person opens it in a browser or in the app. 5. Read the history. You see each view with the time, the device and the approximate location. WHAT THE OTHER PERSON RECEIVES - A view of the pages only. The person does not receive your file. - No download button. - A watermark in each page. It shows the name of the viewer, the purpose, the time and the identifier of the session. Our server puts the watermark into the image. The viewer cannot remove it. - No hidden fields. Lockey removes each field that you masked from the image. HOW YOU KEEP CONTROL - Stop a link immediately. - Stop a link for a short time, then start it again. - Set an expiry date and a maximum quantity of views. - Add a password. - Ask the viewer for a code that Lockey sends by email. - Make a different link for each person, with different conditions. WHAT YOU SEE - A record of each view, each download attempt and each refused entry. - The time, the device, the type of browser and the approximate city. - A message in the app when a person opens one of your documents. Push messages are optional. PRIVACY - Lockey encrypts your documents on the disk and on the network. - Lockey shows no advertisements and does not track you. - You can export your data. - You can delete your account in the app. Lockey then deletes your documents, your links and your records. HOW YOU SIGN IN Use Google, Apple or your telephone number. Lockey sends a code by SMS. There is no password for the account. WHERE LOCKEY IS USEFUL - A landlord, an agent or an employer asks for your ID. - A bank or an office asks for a certificate. - You send a contract to a client for examination. - You give a document to a person for one time only. Privacy policy: https://trylockey.com/privacy Terms: https://trylockey.com/terms

Screenshots

Avista4 screens
Lockey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Lockey at daily against Avista's every 3 months. Avista's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Avista ships an update every 3 months, Lockey daily. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Avista versus Lockey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAvistaLockey
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4.6K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews47.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.6K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAvista CorporationSahil Patel

Bugs and requests

Avista

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Sign-in issues and inability to remember passwords
  • Inconsistent app behavior across devices
  • Errors when trying to view or export invoices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Energy usage tracking and analysis
  • Customizable notifications and alerts
  • Improved UI and user experience
  • Seamless integration with online account

Lockey

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Avista

No in-app purchases

None

Lockey

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Avista free?
Avista is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lockey free?
Lockey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Avista or Lockey have ads?
Neither Avista nor Lockey shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Avista or Lockey?
Avista ships an update every 3 months, and Lockey daily. Most recently, Avista was updated on November 1, 2026 and Lockey on October 29, 2026.

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