Comparison

OpenSolar vs Sunbase Pro

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

Head to head
About

OpenSolar

This free application provides a comprehensive solution for designing and selling solar energy systems. It offers end-to-end functionality for solar professionals.

Highlights
  • End-to-end solar design
  • Sales application
  • Free to use
  • Comprehensive functionality
Features
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OpenSolar is the world's first free, end-to-end, solar design and sales application.

About

Sunbase Pro

Manage all aspects of your business from customer interactions to operations and finances. Track employees, leads, appointments, invoices, and inventory. Streamline communication and reporting with integrated tools.

Highlights
  • Customer and lead management
  • GPS employee tracking
  • Appointment scheduling
  • Invoice and work order creation
  • Inventory management
  • Financial reporting
  • Email marketing tools
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The mobile companion app for your Sunbase account. Let SunbaseData help take your business to the next level you can access all of your business information from customers, sales, financing, operations and installation from your office or on top of a customers roof. You can track your employees location with our GPS feature tracking their location for historical playback and mileage calculation. Great for businesses that want to know when their employees arrived and left the job site. Track your leads, appointments and customers with all of the fields that you need you can create your own. Ready to go out of the box start entering leads after signup in minutes. Appointments are automatically synchronized with Google Calendars and view-able through the system. Originally built for Solar Industry the system is incredibly flexible and is used by roofers, electrical companies, painters, therapists, landscapers and many more. Create invoices including repeat invoices to generate and send to your customers. Create work orders with permit info, what to be done, notes, attachments, pictures and details of the system. Does your industry have financing? Do you have to track financing applications or permits we got you covered. Add your attachments to the customer or the job. Add/Access them in the field they are stored safely on Amazon's S3 Cloud. We have an importer utility built into the program to make it easy to migrate your existing data from excel or another CRM solution into SunbaseData.. Job Board track the status of all of your jobs and see it visually on our job board. You can drag and drop (web version) between the different states. Integrated telephone dialer built into the system. Using the dialer your appointment setters can easily filter the list of leads you want to call and divide them up. Also support click to call, auto dialing and predictive dialing. Inventory management, tracking bundles, quantity on hand, assets, vehicles and equipment. Can track your cost for each product and your profit margin. Books and ledgers with Profit/Loss and Year end reports and an easy receipt capture tool to save the receipt onto the cloud and add a ledger transaction. Never have those faded receipts again. Also eliminates having to keep all of the records in case you are ever audited. Allow your employees to punch in though our time clock. Not only do we track the time we can tell you their location that they did it from. Did they punch out when they got home? Email Marketing blasts quickly create advanced targeted filters to pinpoint your target for an email marketing blasts. Use our Visual Email Designer or HTML editor to create the email and blast it out to your customer base. The marketing blast feature includes the ability to unsubscribe as well as track who opened the email and when. The system calculates the Read rate for you. Track Licenses/Skills/Insurance, Online Training platform. Systematize your business by creating videos and using those to train your staff. Carve territories and view your jobs and leads based off territories. Create and track your sales contracts with e-signing.

Screenshots

OpenSolar3 screens
Sunbase Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: OpenSolar at 45% against Sunbase Pro's 0%. Sunbase Pro's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OpenSolar ships an update every 6 weeks, Sunbase Pro fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
OpenSolar versus Sunbase Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpenSolarSunbase Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews45.5% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.715.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size216 MB201 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOpenSolar Pty LtdJared Dubin

Customer experience

OpenSolar

All ratings10 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive45.5%
Neutral9.1%
Negative45.5%

Sunbase Pro

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

OpenSolar

No in-app purchases

None

Sunbase Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OpenSolar free?
OpenSolar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sunbase Pro free?
Sunbase Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do OpenSolar or Sunbase Pro have ads?
Neither OpenSolar nor Sunbase Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OpenSolar or Sunbase Pro?
OpenSolar ships an update every 6 weeks, and Sunbase Pro fortnightly. Most recently, OpenSolar was updated on October 7, 2026 and Sunbase Pro on September 19, 2026.

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