Comparison

SolarDashboard vs OpenWB Dashboard

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

Head to head
About

SolarDashboard

Monitor your solar system's live performance, forecast future energy production, and optimize energy usage. Automatically charge EVs, heat water, and power smart home devices with your own green energy.

Highlights
  • Live solar production and consumption monitoring
  • Daily and weekly solar production forecasts
  • Automatic EV charging with solar surplus
  • Smart home device control with solar power
  • Hot water heating optimization
  • Detailed energy insights and savings reports
  • Apple Watch complications and widgets
Features
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Your solar system on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. See what your photovoltaic system is doing right now, get a forecast for the coming days and understand where your kilowatt-hours go. SolarDashboard uses your solar power to charge your electric vehicle, heat hot water with your heat pump or power HomeKit and Matter devices – so you keep more of your own green energy. SOLAR POWER, CONSUMPTION AND BATTERY AT A GLANCE Live rings show how much your system produces, how much your home consumes and how full the home battery is. Below: today, this month, this year and the total, with self-sufficiency and feed-in. Tap any day for its energy flow hour by hour: production, consumption, grid and battery. Widgets keep the most important values in view. ON YOUR APPLE WATCH A glance at your wrist: the rings show the solar power, consumption and battery level of your plant. Complications bring the values to your watch face and the Smart Stack. YOUR SOLAR FORECAST SolarDashboard calculates from the weather forecast how much your system will produce today, tomorrow and over the next seven days – hour by hour and self-calibrating to your plant. Optional notifications tell you in the morning what the day brings and when the sun comes back; the Energy Coach plans the week with you. INSIGHTS: UNDERSTAND YOUR SYSTEM Production and consumption for the week, month, year and all time, compared with the same period in earlier years. Your best and your weakest day, the strongest hour, your self-sufficiency day by day. A heatmap shows when your home uses energy, the base load at night reveals what runs all the time, and the battery analysis shows cycles, grid charging and what a battery would bring you. Savings, payback and CO₂ avoided tell you what your system is worth. Your solar year sums up records and savings – ready to share. CHARGE YOUR EV WITH SOLAR POWER Connect your wallbox and charge your electric vehicle automatically with solar power that would otherwise go to the grid. SolarDashboard adjusts the charging power and, where supported, the number of phases to the surplus. You decide from which solar power charging starts, which charge level to reach and how your surplus is used. Audi, Škoda and SEAT/CUPRA can be started directly – any other EV through a supported wallbox. HOT WATER FROM SOLAR POWER Connect your Viessmann, Vaillant or Stiebel Eltron heat pump and let SolarDashboard heat the hot water tank when there is surplus – or in the sunniest hours of the forecast. The app guards against short cycling. HOMEKIT AND MATTER ON GREEN POWER Run smart plugs, Shelly switches, infrared heaters, air conditioners or pool pumps with energy from your own system – automatically, once there is enough sun. SUPPORTED DEVICES • Inverters, balcony solar & batteries: SolarEdge, SMA, Huawei FusionSolar, Kostal, Growatt, GoodWe, Enphase, Fronius, Tesla Powerwall, Anker Solix, EcoFlow, Hoymiles – several vendors at once (Pro) • Home chargers: Alfen, Easee, Fronius Wattpilot, go-e Charger, NRGkick, SMA EV Charger, Wallbox Pulsar Plus, Zaptec • Electric vehicles: Audi, Škoda, SEAT/CUPRA • Heat pumps: Viessmann, Vaillant, Stiebel Eltron • Smart home: HomeKit, Matter, Shelly Devices in your home network are found automatically. FREE AND PRO Everything that tells you what your plant is doing right now is free: live dashboard, energy flow and battery for today, forecast for today and tomorrow, Insights for the current week, your solar year, the Apple Watch app, widgets and device setup. SolarDashboard Pro adds automation, history and money: charging and heating with solar power, months, years and comparisons, savings and payback, battery analysis, base load in depth, forecast in depth, notifications and the Energy Coach. A monthly subscription through the App Store, cancel anytime. Privacy policy: https://solardashboard.tapwork.de/solardashboard-privacy-policy/ Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

OpenWB Dashboard

Features
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Diese App gibt dir die Möglichkeit deine OpenWB Daten bequem über dein Handy einsehen lassen. Darüber hinaus kannst du die verschiedenen Lademodi ändern und den aktuellen Ladestand einsehen. Nachdem du dich mit deinen OpenWB Cloud Daten eingeloggt hast, besitzt du die komplette Kontrolle über deine Wallbox. • Mit der schnellen Übersicht kannst du blitz schnell sehen wie voll dein Auto ist und direkt den Lademodus umstellen. • Mit den individuell einstellbaren Statistiken lassen sich zusammenhänge besser verstehen. • Mit der Möglichkeit mehrere Koten hinzuzufügen, lassen sich mehrere Wallboxen über eine App steuern. Damit hast du jeder Zeit die Kontrolle über all deine Ladepunkte. • Mithilfe der Widgets kannst du wichtige Infos über deine Wallbox einsehen ohne die App zu öffnen. • Durch die Siri Shortcuts lassen sich mächtige Automatisierungen bauen mit welchen du noch mehr aus deiner Wallbox holen kannst. Disclaimer: Die App ist ein privates Projekt und steht in keiner Verbindung mit der openWB GmbH & Co. KG. Die App ist lediglich ein Client für die Daten der openWB Cloud.

Screenshots

SolarDashboard4 screens
OpenWB Dashboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpenWB Dashboard at none against SolarDashboard's 1. SolarDashboard's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. SolarDashboard sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. OpenWB Dashboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SolarDashboard ships an update every 8 days, OpenWB Dashboard every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SolarDashboard versus OpenWB Dashboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSolarDashboardOpenWB Dashboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (32 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings32 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTAPWORK GmbHPascal Faude

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SolarDashboard

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
None

OpenWB Dashboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SolarDashboard free?
SolarDashboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OpenWB Dashboard free?
OpenWB Dashboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SolarDashboard or OpenWB Dashboard have ads?
Neither SolarDashboard nor OpenWB Dashboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SolarDashboard or OpenWB Dashboard?
SolarDashboard ships an update every 8 days, and OpenWB Dashboard every 6 weeks. Most recently, SolarDashboard was updated on November 11, 2026 and OpenWB Dashboard on November 3, 2026.

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