Specific Energy vs Cool Guard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Specific Energy
Access your industrial analytics platform remotely to monitor site operations, manage alarms, and view historical data. Configure control set points and track pump performance from your iOS device.
- Live cloud-based monitoring
- Historical data viewing
- Alarm management
- Pump operation monitoring
- Control set point configuration
- Report viewing
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Login to your Specific Energy account to perform live cloud based monitoring, configuration, control, and deployment of your Specific Energy powered sites from your IOS device. • View live operational & historical data • Manage alarms • View live and historical pump operation • Monitor pump condition • Configure control set points • View reports Don't have a Specific Energy account and are interested in our technology? Please contact info@specificenergy.com to schedule a demonstration.
Cool Guard
Monitor your K9 partner's environmental comfort levels remotely. Receive instant push notifications and view warning or alarm events when heat or cold triggers are met. Allows departments and dispatch to monitor K9 status.
- K9 comfort tracking
- Heat and cold trigger alerts
- Push notifications
- Warning and alarm event display
- Department and 911 dispatch monitoring
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Now you can track the comfort of you K9 Partner anytime on your smart phone. Anytime the Heat Index reaches your hot or cold trigger set point, the Cool Guard K9 Handler App send a push notification to you and quickly displays the Warning or Alarm event in the app so that you can check on your partner. Your Department and 911 Dispatch has eyes on your K9 Partner as part of the capability of this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cool Guard at every 2 weeks against Specific Energy's monthly. Specific Energy's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Specific Energy against 5.0 for Cool Guard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively.
Specific Energy ships an update monthly, Cool Guard every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Specific Energy | Cool Guard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SPECIFIC ENERGY, INC. | TouchLync, Inc |
Customer experience
Specific Energy
Cool Guard
In-app purchases
Specific Energy
No in-app purchases
Cool Guard
No in-app purchases
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