HouseTrack vs Home Log
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HouseTrack
This app provides intelligent energy management for homes and businesses. It visualizes energy usage, identifies patterns, and helps control appliances to optimize cost savings and avoid bill surprises. Real-time data on power consumption, EV charging, and solar production is available.
- Real-time energy usage visualization
- Circuit-by-circuit analysis
- Appliance and device control
- EV charging and solar production monitoring
- Bill surprise avoidance
- Weekly energy insights and tips
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HouseTrack is the key to managing your energy usage. The most powerful and intelligent system for visualizing and managing energy in residential and commercial settings, it automatically identifies energy usage patterns so you can avoid bill surprises, control your appliances, and optimize cost savings. Through sensors that connect in your breaker panel, HouseTrack analyses your electrical usage on a circuit-by-circuit basis, 63 times a second, giving you real-time information about your home’s power consumption, electrical vehicle charging, solar production, or that stove that someone left on. When integrated with Samsung’s SmartThings ecosystem, HouseTrack enables users to connect with and remotely control hundreds of appliances and devices in your home. HouseTrack shows you what’s driving the cost of your electric bill, pinpoints problem areas, and can send notifications about abnormal energy use. Never be surprised by an electric bill again! Free weekly insights and tips are provided to make your home smarter, more energy efficient, and safer.
Home Log
Manage home renovation projects, track expenses, and store important documents like receipts and manuals. Organize multiple properties and share access with family or colleagues.
- Organize renovations, purchases, and fixes
- Add multiple homes
- Share with family or colleagues
- Document with photos and prices
- Save receipts and manuals
- Store service supplier contact information
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Organize renovations, purchases, paint jobs and fixes to your home(s)! Add multiple homes and share with your family or colleages! Document your home renovations with photos and prices! Save your receipts, paint bucket color codes, product manuals and more! Add contact information to your favorite service suppliers!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HouseTrack at 5.0 against Home Log's 2.7. HouseTrack also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 33 months). Home Log's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, ads and device support 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. Home Log sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HouseTrack asks for nothing beyond the download.
HouseTrack holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
HouseTrack ships an update every 6 weeks, Home Log every 33 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HouseTrack | Home Log |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 33 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Curb, Inc. | itiden AB |
Customer experience
HouseTrack
Home Log
In-app purchases
HouseTrack
No in-app purchases
Home Log
- Premium$3.99
