Comparison

Messana vs SPAN Home

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

Head to head
About

Messana

Manage your home's climate and energy from anywhere. This app offers fine-tuned control over temperature, air quality, and humidity for ultimate comfort. It integrates with complex hydronic systems and smart home platforms for seamless automation.

Highlights
  • Remote climate control
  • Customizable schedules
  • Apple HomeKit integration
  • Indoor air quality monitoring
  • System performance graphing
  • Energy source management
Features
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Messana - Complete climate control at your fingertips. The Messana App is an innovative energy management and climate control platform for luxury homes that provides an unique user experience for the owners of a Messana mControls hardware platform. The app allows users to control their conditioning system from anywhere in the world and fine-tune their environment to deliver the most comfortable temperatures, air quality, and humidity, to achieve true Thermal Wellbeing™. - Designed for complex hydronic systems integrating radiant floors, radiant ceilings, and fan coils. - Integrates with supplemental VRV/VRF systems (additional gateway required). - Simple and easy to use, equipped with fully customizable schedules that apply to various functionalities. - Integrates with Apple HomeKit to enable Siri voice control as an extra layer of control, creating powerful automation and scenes. - Customizable dashboard for full control of your energy sources, buffer tanks, hydronic systems, domestic hot water tanks, fan coils, and HRV units. - Controls indoor air quality (IAQ) and humidity. - Advanced heating and cooling changeover capability. Can be set to manual, weekly schedule, or automatic with adaptive logic. - Integrated graph tools to evaluate system performance and diagnose potential issues. - Connects to the Messana mConnect platform directly through the home local network or via the internet. This app fits seamlessly into your life to provide perfect climate control at your fingertips, precisely when and where you want it. NOTE: To work properly, the App requires a Messana mControls hardware platform with a user account. Contact us for more information.

About

SPAN Home

This app provides smart control over your home's electrical panel, allowing you to monitor energy usage, manage individual rooms and appliances, and uncover cost-saving insights. It enhances home energy management and offers advanced features when paired with solar and battery systems, including EV charging.

Highlights
  • Real-time energy dashboard
  • Room and appliance level control
  • Cost saving insights
  • Power outage protection
  • EV charging integration
  • Over-the-air updates
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For SPAN Panel MAIN 32 “This thing is a game changer. This is how you save money” - Jon Dawson, Next-gen builder “A long-overdue, borderline genius product that puts much-needed control back into the hands of homeowners.” - Wired Magazine “SPAN is now the center of my smart home. I’ve been waiting most of my life for this product” - A SPAN customer SPAN reinvented the 100-year-old electrical panel with smarter controls for smarter savings. It replaces your existing electrical panel and gives you complete control over every room and appliance in your home right from your phone. From anywhere in the world, the SPAN Home® App allows you to: Centralize your home’s energy data into one real-time dashboard, giving you a 360° view of your home’s energy performance Make real-time energy changes at the room and appliance level to suit your needs and lower your energy bill Uncover cost-saving insights designed to lower your energy bill and save you money When paired with solar panels and a home battery system, SPAN gives you the best protection against power outages by extending battery life by 40%, providing whole-home backup on a single battery system, and the unmatched flexibility to change what your battery system powers in an outage. Your SPAN Home can include SPAN Drive, a universal EV charger that delivers up to 41 miles of range per hour (48A, 11.52kW) of charging for the fastest charging speeds available - all without a service upgrade to install. The SPAN Home App is constantly improving with free, over-the-air updates designed to improve your experience and unlock greater savings.

Screenshots

Messana4 screens
SPAN Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Messana at 5.0 against SPAN Home's 3.6. SPAN Home's advantage is review sentiment (29% vs 0%) and ratings volume (104 vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Messana holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SPAN Home has 104 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Messana's written reviews are positive against 29% of SPAN Home's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Messana ships an update every 3 weeks, SPAN Home fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Messana versus SPAN Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMessanaSPAN Home
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better3.6 (104 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews28.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3104 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB120 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMessana Radiant CoolingSpan.io, Inc

Customer experience

Messana

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

SPAN Home

All ratings104 ratings
Positive56.7%
Neutral10.6%
Negative32.7%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral16.3%
Negative55.1%

Bugs and requests

Messana

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

SPAN Home

Reported bugs

34 issues
  • App freezes on iPad
  • Circuit switching sometimes fails
  • App shows ads for other products
  • Energy usage data is inaccurate or delayed
  • PowerUp feature control is hidden
Show 29 more
  • App needs force quit to work
  • Data fails to load or stalls
  • App loses connectivity with batteries
  • System does not function as intended during power outages
  • Estimated battery hours/minutes are incorrect
  • App shows panel offline when it's online
  • App recently deleted backup instructions
  • App displays data hours old
  • App crashes or encounters problems constantly
  • App is slow to load
  • App is sluggish and chunky
  • App shows solar production at night
  • App does not support Powerwall 2
  • Responsiveness for switching breakers is poor
  • Circuit monitoring breaks frequently
  • Panel does not function offline
  • Password change process is difficult
  • App does not integrate multiple panels correctly
  • Setup was a pain
  • App in a cycle of constant loading
  • App does not have native iPad support
  • App UI looks dated
  • App crashes and takes a while to launch
  • App loses connection to battery system frequently
  • App disconnects way too often
  • App is seriously dumbed down from v1
  • App has basic inconsistencies in real-time stats
  • App data does not match Tesla App
  • App only supports Alexa and it doesn't work

Requested features

23 requests
  • Unified view for multiple panels
  • Improved app customization
  • More robust connectivity
  • Better Tesla battery integration support
  • Easier labeling of breakers
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  • Darker, more readable app interface
  • Desktop dashboard/web app
  • Smaller SPAN sub-panel option
  • Modular sub-panel breaker monitoring
  • Public API for Home Assistant integration
  • Native iPad support (split screen, hover)
  • More smart home integration (Apple HomeKit)
  • Ability to toggle between panels with swipe
  • Increased character limit for circuit names
  • iOS Widget for at-a-glance data
  • Schedule breakers to turn on/off automatically
  • Better daily data view for breaker level changes
  • 2FA for account security
  • Historical usage per circuit
  • SPAN Drive mode for solar-only charging
  • Basic voltage readouts for grid diagnostics
  • Improved Time of Day Plans functionality
  • Fix for 'areas' feature for multi-panel setups

In-app purchases

None

Messana

No in-app purchases

None

SPAN Home

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Messana free?
Messana is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SPAN Home free?
SPAN Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Messana or SPAN Home?
Messana is rated higher. Messana averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while SPAN Home averages 3.6 from 104 ratings.
Do Messana or SPAN Home have ads?
Neither Messana nor SPAN Home shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Messana or SPAN Home?
Messana ships an update every 3 weeks, and SPAN Home fortnightly. Most recently, Messana was updated on November 6, 2026 and SPAN Home on November 3, 2026.

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