SolarDashboard vs Sunplug
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
Sunplug
Optimize your electric vehicle charging using your home's solar power and the cheapest grid electricity. This app intelligently manages charging based on solar production, grid prices, and your car's ready-by time, ensuring efficient and cost-effective energy use.
- Charge EVs with home solar surplus
- Buy grid power during cheapest hours
- Live energy flow monitoring
- Grid price forecasts
- Solar production forecasts
- Customizable charging schedules
- Cost and energy source review
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Charge your electric car with the solar power your home already produces, and buy the rest from the grid in the cheapest hours. Sunplug watches solar, home, grid and battery flows, then adjusts compatible cars and smart chargers to use the surplus without chasing every passing cloud. Set a ready-by time and let Sunplug decide: it plans each car's charge on your solar surplus first, then on the cheapest hours of your tariff. • See live energy moving around your home • See the grid price for the hours ahead, with live market prices across most of Europe • A solar forecast for your home, with your past production and the planned charges, all in one place • Any tariff: base, peak and off-peak with seasons and weekends, market prices or Tempo • Set a ready-by time, a grid level and a price cap for each car • Prioritise your home battery or your cars • Keep charging calm through changing weather • Review what charging cost you, where its energy came from and what it saved • Choose the notifications you want, based on your tariff Sunplug works with selected inverters, batteries, cars and smart chargers. Compatibility depends on your equipment and region. Some setups use the lightweight Sunplug Agent on your home network, so equipment credentials stay at home. Sunplug is currently in beta. You need a Sunplug account and compatible equipment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sunplug at 5.0 against SolarDashboard's 4.3. Sunplug also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 61%) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). SolarDashboard's advantage is ratings volume (32 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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. SolarDashboard sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Sunplug asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sunplug holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SolarDashboard has 32 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of SolarDashboard's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sunplug's.
SolarDashboard ships an update every 8 days, Sunplug every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | SolarDashboard | Sunplug |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (32 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TAPWORK GmbH | Sunplug |
Customer experience
SolarDashboard
Sunplug
In-app purchases
SolarDashboard
- Monthly$1.991 Month
Sunplug
No in-app purchases









