Electricity Maps vs TreeScribe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Electricity Maps
Explore live and historical electricity data globally. Track production mix, CO2 emissions, prices, and renewable energy sources in real-time.
- Real-time electricity data
- Historical electricity data
- Production mix tracking
- CO2 emissions monitoring
- Electricity price data
- Renewable energy insights
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Explore real-time and historical electricity data worldwide — from production mix and CO2 emissions to prices, renewables, and much more.
TreeScribe
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TreeScribe is the field app of the Savanna Institute's tree crop breeding programs. It gives you the ability to record data on every plant with its accession, its row and position, and its history, so a person walking a planting records what they see against the right plant. Work it does in the field: - Photograph a plant and the photo is named for that plant, filed by trial and by day, and sent to your program's Google Drive. - Score traits from your Breedbase trait list, one tap per value. - Count burs or other fruit on a tree, including a separate count of what is on the ground. - Record harvest bags against the bush they came from. - Write or dictate notes about a plant. - Record a plant's position from a connected GNSS receiver. It is built for places with no signal. Everything is recorded on the phone and sent when a network appears, and a trial's drone imagery can be downloaded beforehand so the map works with no connection at all. Access is by invitation: each person is given a personal access code by their breeding program, and the app records nothing without one.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TreeScribe at daily against Electricity Maps's every 5 weeks. TreeScribe also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Electricity Maps's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TreeScribe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Electricity Maps has 25 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Electricity Maps ships an update every 5 weeks, TreeScribe daily. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Electricity Maps | TreeScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Electricity Maps | Savanna Institute |
Customer experience
Electricity Maps
TreeScribe
In-app purchases
Electricity Maps
No in-app purchases
TreeScribe
No in-app purchases
