Kogan Energy vs PatternMate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kogan Energy
Manage your electricity usage and bills from your smartphone. Monitor power consumption, forecast future use, and access your account history. Easily pay bills and view invoices within the app.
- Monitor power use
- Forecast power use
- Pay bills
- View invoices
- Access account history
- View power use trends
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Take control of your energy bills with the Kogan Energy app. Monitor power use, easily pay your bills, access your account & view your history from your smartphone. Join Kogan Energy & download the app today to: - Pay your bill and see invoices - Monitor & forecast power use - View your account history - Gain insight into power use trends
PatternMate
Manage your sewing pattern collection with custom tags, photos, and notes. Track your progress on ongoing projects and easily reference your inventory while shopping for fabric.
- Organize patterns with tags, photos, and notes
- Reference collection while fabric shopping
- Track sewing project progress
- Add notes to ongoing projects
- Customizable tagging system
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Organise your sewing patterns - Keep track of your pattern collection with custom tags, photos and notes. - Quickly reference your collection while fabric shopping to make sure that perfect find fits with your pattern plans. - Never dig through boxes of patterns again just to pull out one small detail. Track your sewing projects - Start projects from a pattern and keep notes of your progress. - Remember where you were up to with each project if you've got multiple pieces of work on the go at once.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kogan Energy at none against PatternMate's 2. Kogan Energy also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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. PatternMate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Kogan Energy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kogan Energy ships an update every 2 months, PatternMate every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 21, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kogan Energy | PatternMate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KOGAN.COM PTY LTD | Daniel Nitsikopoulos |
Customer experience
Kogan Energy
PatternMate
In-app purchases
Kogan Energy
No in-app purchases
PatternMate
- Super PatternMate Monthly$0.991 Month
- Super PatternMate Yearly$9.991 Year
