GLE vs Michigan Secure
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GLE
Manage your Great Lakes Energy account on the go. View usage and billing details, make payments, and report service issues. Access facility and payment dropbox locations with an intuitive map interface.
- View account balance and due date
- Manage recurring payments
- Access bill history (PDFs)
- Analyze energy usage graphs
- Report account/service issues
- Locate facilities and dropboxes
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GLEnergy provides Great Lakes Energy members account management at their fingertips. Members can view their usage and billing, manage payments, notify member service of account and service issues and receive special messaging from Great Lakes Energy. Additional Features: Bill & Pay - Quickly view your current account balance and due date, manage recurring payments and modify payment methods. You can also view bill history including PDF versions of paper bills directly on your mobile device. My Usage - View energy usage graphs to identify high usage trends. Navigate graphs quickly using an intuitive gesture based interface. Contact Us - Easily contact Great Lakes Energy by email or phone. You can also submit one of the many predefined messages, with the ability to include pictures and GPS coordinates. Maps - Displays facility and payment dropbox locations on a map interface.
Michigan Secure
This free app helps protect your mobile device from online threats. It verifies suspicious links and alerts you to unsafe public Wi-Fi networks. It prioritizes your privacy by not collecting sensitive personal data.
- Link safety verification
- Phishing attempt detection
- Untrusted network alerts
- Public Wi-Fi protection
- Privacy-first design
- No data collection
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Free Mobile Threat Protection Provided by the State of Michigan Protect the important devices – and people – in your life with Michigan Secure. This is a free privacy-first, award-winning* mobile app provided by the State of Michigan for residents. Michigan Secure helps protect your mobile device by: - Allowing you to verify if links sent to you through text, email, a messaging app, or social media are safe or a possible phishing attempt. - Alerting you of untrusted networks when using public Wi-Fi networks, vulnerable device configurations, and more. Michigan Secure also helps protect your privacy by never sharing information or collecting messages, emails, call data, and other sensitive data. Don't leave your mobile device unprotected. Download Michigan Secure for free today! *StateScoop 50 2021 Top State IT Innovations of the Year
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: GLE at every 2 months against Michigan Secure's every 16 months. Michigan Secure's advantage is rating (3.7 vs 3.5) and review sentiment (33% vs 22%). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Michigan Secure holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of GLE's written reviews are positive against 33% of Michigan Secure's.
GLE ships an update every 2 months, Michigan Secure every 16 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | GLE | Michigan Secure |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (29 ratings) | 3.7 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Great Lakes Energy | Zimperium |
Customer experience
GLE
Michigan Secure
In-app purchases
GLE
No in-app purchases
Michigan Secure
No in-app purchases
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