Comparison

iPLUG vs Wire & Load

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

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About

iPLUG

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iPLUG๋Š” (์ฃผ)๋‹ค์“ฐํ…Œํฌ์˜ ํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘ ํ”Œ๋ž˜ํŠธ์— ์„ค์น˜๋œ iPLUG RTU ์žฅ๋น„๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ธ๋ฒ„ํ„ฐ, ๊ธฐ์ƒ๊ด€์ธก, ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ ‘์†๋ฐ˜๋“ฑ์˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€๊ณตํ•˜์—ฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ •๋ณด ๋ฐ ์ƒํƒœ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณต ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์•ฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์•ฑ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๊ณ„์ •์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์ž๋Š” ๋ฐ๋ชจ๊ณ„์ • ํ”Œ๋žœํŠธ ์ •๋ณด๋งŒ ํ™•์ธ ํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. iPLUG ํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ์žฅ์ ์€ ์•„๋ž˜์™€ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1. ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ์„œ๋ฒ„ ์ฑ„ํƒ - ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ์„œ๋ฒ„ ์ฑ„ํƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ œ๊ณต ๋ฐ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์ด ์ฆ๋Œ€. - ๋น…๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜์ง‘, ๊ฐ€๊ณต, ๊ณต์œ ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ปจํ…์ธ  ํ™œ์šฉ ์ธํ”„๋ผ ํ™•๋ณด - ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์žฅ์•  ์‹œ ๋ฏธ์ „์†ก ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ฐฑ์—… ๋ฐ ๋ณต๊ตฌ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ์ œ๊ณต - ์›น ์„œ๋น„์Šค, ๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผ ์–ดํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜ ์ œ๊ณต 2. ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ ํ†ต์‹ ์ž์› - RS485 ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์ธํ„ฐํŽ˜์ด์Šค ์ œ๊ณต - ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฌด์„  ๋™๊ธ€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ์ œ๊ณต (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LTE ๋“ฑ) - ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ SI ์š”๊ตฌ์— ๋Œ€๋น„ํ•œ ํ†ต์‹  ์ธํ„ฐํŽ˜์ด์Šค ์ œ๊ณต 3. ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง GUI๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. - ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ฐœ์ „์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณต - ์žฅ๋น„์˜ ์ƒํƒœ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. - ์ผ๋ณด/์ฃผ๋ณด/์›”๋ณด/๋…„๋ณด ์ œ๊ณต - ํ”Œ๋žœํŠธ์˜ ์ง€์—ญ ๋‚ ์”จ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4. ์„ค์น˜ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง ์†”๋ฅ˜์…˜ ์ œ๊ณต - ์‹ค๋‚ดํ˜•, ์‹ค์™ธ ํ˜•, ๋Œ€์šฉ๋Ÿ‰ ์ธ๋ฒ„ํ„ฐ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ˜•

About

Wire & Load

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Stop guessing the right wire size. Wire & Load is the no-internet-needed reference every electrician and maintenance tech wants in their pocket. GET AN INSTANT RECOMMENDATION for AWG / mmยฒ wire size, voltage drop percentage, and the matching standard circuit breaker โ€” driven by NEC 2023 / 75ยฐC ampacity tables and the 240.6(A) breaker series. WHAT'S INSIDE โ€ข Voltage-drop calculator โ€” single- and three-phase, copper or aluminum โ€ข Configurable voltage-drop limit (0.5% โ€“ 10%) โ€ข NEC 240.4(B) next-size-up breaker rule applied automatically โ€ข 60ยฐC limits for 14/12/10 AWG copper and 12/10 AWG aluminum pre-applied per NEC 240.4(D) โ€ข Continuous-load (โ‰ฅ 3 hr) 1.25ร— multiplier toggle โ€ข Power-mode input โ€” enter watts and power factor, the app derives the working current OFFLINE REFERENCE TABLES โ€ข AWG โ†” mmยฒ โ†” diameter (ASTM B258) โ€ข Copper and aluminum ampacity (NEC 310.16, 75ยฐC) โ€ข Standard breaker sizes (NEC 240.6(A)) โ€ข Motor starting inrush multipliers โ€” DOL, star-delta, soft starter, VFD (NEMA MG-1) DESIGNED FOR THE FIELD โ€ข Works on any job site, no signal needed โ€ข Search built into every reference table โ€ข Both AWG and mmยฒ always shown on results โ€ข Switch between metric (mmยฒ / m) and imperial (AWG / ft) โ€ข Localized in English, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, and Portuguese PRIVACY FIRST No accounts. No analytics. No ads. No tracking. Your inputs never leave your device. PRICING Try Wire & Load free for 7 days. After that, unlock lifetime access for a single $1.99 purchase โ€” no subscription, no recurring charges, free updates. DISCLAIMER This app provides general reference information based on commonly-used electrical engineering tables and formulas. Results are estimates and do not constitute professional engineering advice. Always follow the electrical code applicable in your jurisdiction and consult a licensed electrician or engineer.

Screenshots

iPLUG4 screens
Wire & Load4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iPLUG at none against Wire & Load's 1. iPLUG also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.6). Wire & Load's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Wire & Load sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. iPLUG asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iPLUG ships an update every 4 months, Wire & Load every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
iPLUG versus Wire & Load: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriPLUGWire & Load
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 โ€” better16.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size49 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperdasstechShenzhen Fu Kang Heng Development Co., Ltd.

In-app purchases

None

iPLUG

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Wire & Load

One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$1.99

Questions

Is iPLUG free?
iPLUG is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wire & Load free?
Wire & Load is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do iPLUG or Wire & Load have ads?
Neither iPLUG nor Wire & Load shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iPLUG or Wire & Load?
iPLUG ships an update every 4 months, and Wire & Load every 2 months. Most recently, iPLUG was updated on September 19, 2026 and Wire & Load on September 18, 2026.

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