ALC Matthews NC vs Intermatic Optimizer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ALC Matthews NC
This app serves as a connection point for growing relationships with faith, family, and friends through worship, evangelism, discipleship, fellowship, and service. It aims to be a place of hope, love, restoration, and forgiveness, sharing the Gospel and equipping believers for ministry.
- Connect with faith community
- Discipleship resources
- Fellowship opportunities
- Service initiatives
- Worship content
- Evangelism tools
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Our dream is... ... to serve as a connection point to help people grow their relationships with their faith, family, and friends. This will be accomplished by providing connection in these areas through worship, evangelism, discipleship, fellowship, and service. ... to be a place where the hurting can find hope. Where the lonely can find love. Where the broken can be restored. Where the fallen can be forgiven. ... to be a place where the whole Gospel is shared with the hundreds of thousands in the Metrolina region. ... to grow Abundant Life Church - Matthews to a membership of over 500. ... to plant one new Abundant Life Church in the Metrolina area each year to evangelize this region, including works among many language groups, eventually bringing the membership of Abundant Life Church into the thousands. ... to equip every believer for the work of the ministry by helping them discover their unique gifts and talents, then empowering them to use those gifts and talents to their fullest potential for the building up of the kingdom of God. ... to become a church that is not just blessed, but becomes a blessing by sending out men and money to fulfill the Great Commission. ... to develop the current campus to include new sanctuary, classrooms, office complex, and sports facility to minister to the body of Christ and as a connect point for those who desire to discover Him. ... to be a place where we can all come to "the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:" ... to develop a staff of people who can help us fulfill this dream!
Intermatic Optimizer
Control your pool and spa system remotely from your iPhone or iPad. Monitor and manage your equipment, create schedules, and store important documents like receipts and reports. Share access with family or service personnel for convenient management.
- Remote pool and spa control
- Create up to 12 schedules
- Store equipment pictures and reports
- Share access with others
- Monitor system status
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Your Intermatic® Optimizer system is a powerful pool and spa automation control system that offers anytime, anywhere remote access to control your pool and spa. From your iPhone®, you can remotely monitor and control one or more systems, create up to 12 schedules, and save pictures of your equipment, receipts, and water chemistry reports in the apps convenient Wallet feature. As the Pool owner, you can share access with others (family, service personnel, etc.).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Intermatic Optimizer at every 11 days against ALC Matthews NC's every 8 months. Intermatic Optimizer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). ALC Matthews NC's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Intermatic Optimizer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively.
ALC Matthews NC ships an update every 8 months, Intermatic Optimizer every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ALC Matthews NC | Intermatic Optimizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Abundant Life Church of Matthews, NC, Inc. | Intermatic LLC |
Customer experience
ALC Matthews NC
Intermatic Optimizer
In-app purchases
ALC Matthews NC
No in-app purchases
Intermatic Optimizer
No in-app purchases
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