Comparison

HomeWizard Lite vs Chargee Sparky

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

Head to head
About

HomeWizard Lite

Control your home's lights, heating, and curtains remotely. Adjust lighting to create the perfect ambiance, manage room temperatures, and automate window coverings based on sunset. Open garage doors and set schedules for ultimate convenience.

Highlights
  • Control lights remotely
  • Dim lights for ambiance
  • Automate curtain/blind closure
  • Manage room heating
  • Open garage doors
  • Create scheduled tasks
Features
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Download the app and try out the demo! With the Lite app you can control things in your home. Manage the heating in different rooms with radiator valves, turn of lights while in your bed, dim lights to the perfect atmosphere or close curtains automatically when the sun goes down. Lite gives you comfort at your fingertips. The app requires a ‘SmartSwitch’ plug (*device) by Smartwares. • Switch lights on and off even when you’re not at home
 • Dim lights to the perfect atmosphere
 • Close blinds or curtains an hour before sunset
 • Heat up individual rooms to a comfortable temperature
 • Open your garage door from your phone
 • Create scheduled tasks based on time, sunrise or sunset. The Lite app brings easy comfort to your home.

About

Chargee Sparky

Features
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With the Sparky P1 meter and the Chargee app, you can take energy back into your own hands. We combine real-time insight with forecasts and automation so that you use energy at the ideal time. In this way, we bring energy supply and demand back into balance. Together, we make optimal use of sustainable energy. APP FEATURES Insight • Live insight into electricity and gas consumption and feed-in • Compare your historical consumption per day, week, month or year • Easy insight into your average, most and least consumption • Insight into your power consumption and feed-in every hour, down to the second • View the dynamic rates for electricity and gas • Easily share your Chargee account with friends and family • View the load per phase (ampere) in your home, per hour • View the voltage per phase in your home, per hour • Live phase load Forecast • Forecast of your expected electricity consumption and solar return • Forecast of your expected gas consumption • Forecast of your expected solar production Integrations • Connect to your solar inverter and see your solar consumption in your home (Beta) • Connect with your electric car and see the charge state and driving range (Beta) • Connect with your EV charger and see the charging capacity (Beta) • Connect with your heat pump, air conditioning or heating and see consumption rate and temperature (Beta) • Connect with your home battery and see charge state and battery level (Beta) You need Sparky P1 meter, our real-time energy meter, to use the Chargee app. You can easily connect this Sparky to your smart meter. Click, connect to WiFi and you're done.

Screenshots

HomeWizard Lite3 screens
Chargee Sparky4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chargee Sparky at fortnightly against HomeWizard Lite's every 2 months. HomeWizard Lite's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

HomeWizard Lite ships an update every 2 months, Chargee Sparky fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 9, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
HomeWizard Lite versus Chargee Sparky: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeWizard LiteChargee Sparky
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews16.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB158 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHomeWizard B.V.Chargee B.V.

In-app purchases

None

HomeWizard Lite

No in-app purchases

None

Chargee Sparky

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HomeWizard Lite free?
HomeWizard Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chargee Sparky free?
Chargee Sparky is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HomeWizard Lite or Chargee Sparky have ads?
Neither HomeWizard Lite nor Chargee Sparky shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HomeWizard Lite or Chargee Sparky?
HomeWizard Lite ships an update every 2 months, and Chargee Sparky fortnightly. Most recently, HomeWizard Lite was updated on June 9, 2026 and Chargee Sparky on September 23, 2026.

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