SOLARMAN Smart vs JinKO Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SOLARMAN Smart
This app provides intelligent energy management for global users with a focus on visual data display and comprehensive monitoring. It allows for quick plant setup, 24-hour remote monitoring of PV power plants, and efficient collaboration with business partners for operations and maintenance.
- Visual energy data display
- 24-hour remote monitoring
- Quick plant setup
- Authorization for collaboration
- Real-time and historical data
- Energy consumption tracking
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SOLARMAN Smart is a brand new generation of Intelligent Energy Management Application, which is specially designed for global users. With the basic features of full-on visual experience, excellent data display and all-round monitoring, it achieves the goal of convenient operation. 【Build a Plant within 1 min】 No need to fill in tedious information. SOLARMAN Big Data will help to enrich more contents. 【24-hour Remote Monitoring】 Go to SOLARMAN Smart APP to check running status of PV power plant at anytime and anywhere. Reveal all data (Production, Consumption, Battery, Grid, Real-time, Historical Data and etc,.) at a glance. 【Efficient Coordination】 Add authorization function. Users can authorize the plant you created to your business partner to do O&M cooperatively. Meanwhile, users can receive the plant from your business partner, which means users do not have to create a plant or configure the devices. 【More Functions】 Based on energy management field, SolarMAN-3.0 APP will keep the constantly innovation and bring better experience for every user. Dear Users, if you have any suggestions or comments, please feel free to send us a note and let us know how we are doing. Feedback Email：zhihao.huang@igen-tech.com
JinKO Cloud
This smart storage cloud manager software aggregates core data for power station distribution and operation monitoring. It offers intelligent analysis, revenue insights, and 3D visualization of site power configuration, with early warning and work order processing.
- Core data aggregation
- Cloud edge collaboration
- Digital twin technology
- Power station distribution monitoring
- Intelligent analysis
- 3D visual display
- Early warning and work order processing
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Jingzhiyun app is a smart storage close-fitting big data cloud manager software. We use core data aggregation, cloud edge collaboration, digital twin and other technologies to provide detailed power station distribution, daily operation monitoring and intelligent analysis, revenue analysis, 3D visual display of site power configuration, * early warning and work order processing functions. Users can view site statistical analysis data online at any time, helping users easily understand the daily energy storage site details, and you do not need to worry about data security issues. If you have any comments and suggestions, please feel free to contact us.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: JinKO Cloud at 5.0 against SOLARMAN Smart's 4.6. JinKO Cloud also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). SOLARMAN Smart's advantage is ratings volume (5.8K vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
JinKO Cloud holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SOLARMAN Smart has 5.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SOLARMAN Smart ships an update every 2 weeks, JinKO Cloud every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SOLARMAN Smart | JinKO Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5.8K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.8K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | IGEN Tech Co., Ltd. | Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
SOLARMAN Smart
JinKO Cloud
Bugs and requests
SOLARMAN Smart
Reported bugs
3 issues- Registration process issues
- Frequent crashes and login problems
- Inconsistent data display and sync issues
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to control battery and inverter settings
- Improve historical data and export functionality
- Implement push notifications for grid failures and returns
- Provide more detailed consumption and production data
JinKO Cloud
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SOLARMAN Smart
No in-app purchases
JinKO Cloud
No in-app purchases
