SolarAssistant vs BMS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SolarAssistant
This app connects to solar inverters via Bluetooth or WiFi for maintenance. It allows real-time monitoring of alarms, configuration parameters, and device health history. Quickly locate faults and enhance operational efficiency.
- Bluetooth/WiFi inverter connection
- Real-time alarm monitoring
- Configuration parameter access
- Log downloading
- Fault location and management
- Device health history query
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Solar Assistant is a mobile application software to communicate to inverter via Bluetooth or WiFi for query alarms, configuration parameters, log downloading routine maintenance functions, are lightweight proximal maintenance platform. Support iOS7.1 or later. Monitor in real time: easy to operate alarm browsing, fault management, operation and maintenance to enhance user productivity. Flexible data in real time query mechanism to facilitate customer inquiries device health history. Get fast fault location, ease of maintenance personnel to quickly locate the fault, timely response measures.
BMS
Monitor and manage your device's battery health with real-time data, historical records, and customizable alerts for over-charge, over-discharge, and temperature. Connect locally via Bluetooth or remotely via Wi-Fi to track battery status, cell performance, and potential issues.
- Real-time battery data (current, voltage, SOC, SOH)
- Cell-level monitoring
- Historical alarm and protection records
- Customizable warning values
- Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity
- Device sharing and management
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This app allows users to bind their devices easily and conveniently at anytime and anywhere,view battery health status, and record, diagnose and warn the real-time status of the battery.It is a good helper for users in operating and maintaining their devices. 【Parameter settings】 Preset warning values for over-charge, over-discharge , over-current, and over-temperature,When the battery status reaches the preset warning value, the system will send out an alarm signal to remind users to pay attention to the battery's status and performance. 【Real-time data】 Summary data: including battery current, voltage, number of cells, cycle times, SOC, SOH, temperature and other parameters; Cell data: including independent voltage, independent current, cycle times, SOC, SOH, temperature and other parameters of the cell; Voltage temperature: including the number of cells, cell voltage, cell temperature and other parameters; Status data: including protection, indication, control, fault, battery balance, alarm and other status. 【Historical data】 Record the alarm state, protection state, fault occurrence state and development process of the battery history,which can help the users to understand the state and performance of the battery. 【Connection method】 Local control: Through Bluetooth communication, no need to log in with an account, directly search for nearby Bluetooth signals, one-to-one connection, ready to use; Remote control: through WIFI communication,need to register an account to log in, the APP and the device will automatically perform network distribution operations, and bind the account and device. 【My device】 Forgot password: reset password through email; Edit device: Long press the device item, the edit menu will pop up at the bottom, you can modify the device nickname or delete the device; Share device: Long press the device item, the device administrator who first configures the network and binds the account, can generate a QR code for the device for other users to scan the code to add.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BMS at 5.0 against SolarAssistant's 1.0. BMS also leads on review sentiment (20% vs 0%). SolarAssistant's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BMS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of SolarAssistant's written reviews are positive against 20% of BMS's.
SolarAssistant ships an update every 11 days, BMS every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SolarAssistant | BMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 易事特集团股份有限公司 | 秀丽 唐 |
Customer experience
SolarAssistant
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In-app purchases
SolarAssistant
No in-app purchases
BMS
No in-app purchases









