SOLARMAN Business vs Austa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SOLARMAN Business
This platform offers a comprehensive solution for businesses managing solar plants. It provides monitoring, personnel management, intelligent analysis, and work order management for plant operation and maintenance. It also supports device after-sales services with features like firmware upgrades and command control.
- Plant operation and maintenance monitoring
- Personnel management
- Intelligent analysis applications
- Work order and spare parts management
- Device after-sales service management
- Firmware upgrade and command control
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SOLARMAN Business is a new generation of Business Edition SAAS software launched by SOLARMAN, which is specially designed for businesses who provide various services in the life cycle of plants. In the scenario of plant operation and maintenance, it will not only provide monitoring functions, but also complete the closed loop of the whole process of plant operation and maintenance based on "personnel management, multi-scene monitoring, intelligent analysis application, work order spare parts management". In the scenario of device after-sales service, multiple management modules such as product protocol, alert code, firmware upgrade, and command control will be provided based on the device. The real digital mobile work platform for businesses.
Austa
Monitor your micro inverter solar power system's performance. Track energy production, view historical data, and receive alerts for any issues. Optimize your solar energy usage with this utility app.
- Monitor micro inverter solar systems
- Track energy production
- View historical data
- Receive alerts for issues
- Optimize solar energy usage
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App for monitoring micro inverter solar systems
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SOLARMAN Business at 4.2 against Austa's 1.0. SOLARMAN Business also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1). Austa's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). 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.
SOLARMAN Business holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SOLARMAN Business has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SOLARMAN Business | Austa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 18.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IGEN Tech Co., Ltd. | Northern Electric & Power Inc |
Customer experience
SOLARMAN Business
Austa
In-app purchases
SOLARMAN Business
No in-app purchases
Austa
No in-app purchases
