Bright vs Think Before You Link
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bright
Track your electricity and gas usage in real-time from your smart meters. This app helps you manage energy consumption and spend more efficiently, contributing to carbon reduction goals. Requires compatible hardware for full functionality.
- Real-time energy consumption monitoring
- Electricity and gas usage tracking
- Smart meter data access via DCC or CAD
- Clamp-on sensor support for electricity
- Energy spend management
- Carbon efficiency goals
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Monitor your energy consumption anytime, anywhere with Bright. For real-time data you need Glowmarkt compatible hardware (https://shop.glowmarkt.com/) - which works with either smart or traditional meters. People with SMETS2 (or E&A SMETS 1) meters can access their half hourly data with Bright for free, once they go through our verification process. Bright lets you check your energy consumption, this could be electricity and gas usage from your smart meters, via the DCC or our Consumer Access Device (CAD). Clamp-on technology sensors can support electricity usage monitoring. Our goal is to help you manage your energy consumption and spend more efficiently as we all strive to become more carbon efficient. To see our Frequently Asked Questions go to: https://glowmarkt.com/#/faqs/apps For more information or any questions please contact: support@glowmarkt.com Join the Glow community (https://forum.glowmarkt.com/).
Think Before You Link
This interactive guide educates users on online safety through a series of lessons. It promotes the Think Before You Link campaign to help everyone stay safer when using the internet.
- Interactive guide
- Online safety lessons
- Think Before You Link campaign
- Educational content
- User safety focus
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NPSA is the National Protective Security Authority and is the UK's technical authority on physical and personnel security. NPSA is accountable to the Director General of MI5, the Security Service This app is an interactive guide to the Think Before You Link campaign, with a series of lessons designed to help everyone be safer when they are online.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Think Before You Link at 100% against Bright's 50%. Bright's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bright ships an update every 2 months, Think Before You Link every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bright | Think Before You Link |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HILDEBRAND TECHNOLOGY LTD | CPNI |
Customer experience
Bright
Think Before You Link
In-app purchases
Bright
No in-app purchases
Think Before You Link
No in-app purchases
Questions
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