WattWise vs OntarioNet Hub
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WattWise
This app provides real-time insights into your home's energy usage and solar production. It helps you identify patterns, control appliances, and optimize behavior for cost savings. Receive notifications about abnormal usage and get tips for a more energy-efficient home.
- Real-time energy usage monitoring
- Solar production tracking
- Appliance control
- Automated appliance management
- Energy cost optimization
- Abnormal usage notifications
- Energy efficiency reports
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Arcadia Energy’s WattWise is the most powerful and intelligent integrated hardware/software system for visualizing and managing energy in the residential solar setting. Powered by CURB, WattWise helps easily identify energy usage and production patterns, control appliances, and optimize behavior for ultimate cost-savings. Through sensors that connect directly to your breaker panel, WattWise measures your electrical usage on a circuit-by-circuit basis, giving you real-time information about your home’s power consumption and solar production. Integration with Samsung’s SmartThings platform and our new WattWise Control Panel enables users to directly control appliances in the home and automate appliance controls for demand management. WattWise ties together your solar production and home energy usage to show you what’s driving the cost of your electricity bill, pinpoint and control problem areas, and send real-time notifications about abnormal energy usage. Periodic reports give insights and tips to make your home smarter, more energy efficient and safer. Take control of your energy costs with WattWise.
OntarioNet Hub
Manage your home Wi-Fi network with this smart application. It offers features like parental controls, guest network creation, device monitoring, and speed testing to enhance your internet experience.
- Parental controls
- Guest network creation
- View connected devices
- Monitor network usage
- Set device priorities
- Speed testing
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OntarioNet Hub is a user-friendly smart home Wi-Fi application by OntarioNet. Monitor and control your network with parental controls, creating guest networks, and implementing network security. You can view all connected devices, view network usage, set device priorities, and test your speed
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: OntarioNet Hub at 100% against WattWise's 50%. OntarioNet Hub also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3). WattWise's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). 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.
OntarioNet Hub holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of WattWise's written reviews are positive against 100% of OntarioNet Hub's.
WattWise ships an update every 6 weeks, OntarioNet Hub every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WattWise | OntarioNet Hub |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Curb, Inc. | City Of Ontario |
Customer experience
WattWise
OntarioNet Hub
In-app purchases
WattWise
No in-app purchases
OntarioNet Hub
No in-app purchases
