Cloud Battery vs Smart Battery Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cloud Battery
This app centralizes battery levels from all your Apple devices into one view. Monitor battery status across iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches, with notifications and widgets for easy access. Seamlessly integrates with iCloud for a hassle-free experience.
- Centralized battery monitoring
- Real-time battery tracking
- Today, Home Screen, and Lock Screen Widgets
- Watch Complications
- Low battery and unplug notifications
- Siri Shortcuts integration
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Cloud Battery keeps your device, accessory, and shared device battery levels in one place. Use Cloud Battery on supported devices: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, Apple TV. Cloud Battery is available on supported Apple platforms. Use iCloud to sync supported battery levels across your devices, view synced batteries on Apple TV, and share individual battery status for devices you own with people you choose. Cloud Battery includes: - At-a-glance battery levels - iCloud battery sync - iCloud sharing for battery status from devices you own - Synced battery viewing on Apple TV and Apple Vision Pro - Battery levels for Mac AirPods and compatible Bluetooth accessories - Home Screen, Lock Screen, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro widgets - Apple Watch battery rings - Low-battery and ready-to-unplug alerts for devices you own on supported platforms - App Shortcuts and Siri actions for battery level lookup and sync Cloud Battery works best with iCloud enabled on each device.
Smart Battery Widget
Monitor your device's battery, storage, and network activity with real-time data and smart estimations. View key metrics and usage predictions directly on your home screen with customizable widgets.
- Battery monitoring and usage estimations
- Storage monitoring and capacity estimations
- Network activity and speed monitoring
- Customizable home screen widgets
- Lock screen widgets
- Real-time data display
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Smart Battery Widget is an extraordinary well designed application to monitor your device’s Battery, Storage and Network activity and also have an eye on them on the Home Screen thanks to brilliant Widgets. Not only monitor your device activity but it can also estimate your capability of usage based on your current battery state and device storage remaining due to smart algorithms. A modern, lightweight and fully interactive application interwoven with state-of-art functionality and revolutionary user experience like no others. —- Features —- ■ Battery: Monitor Battery state and percentage and also provides four different realtime estimations for Audio playback, Video playback, Talk time and Gaming time remaining hours base on battery percentage and capacity. Keep an eye on new daily graph of battery usage. ■ Storage: Monitor device storage states like total volume, free space and used space and also provides four different realtime estimations for download/import Audio, download/import Video, number of photos can shoot and Podcasts can save base on your device free space. ■ Network: Monitor your device network/internet activity data for both cellular and wifi. It can precisely determine your current network usage volume and speed for sending and receiving data live on the app. ■ Home Screen Widgets: Smart Battery Widget has reinvented widget design and functionality. It provides many different widgets with different sizes for all three features and their estimations: - 3 Widgets for battery state and its estimations - 3 Widgets for storage state and its estimations - 4 Graph Widgets for network activity - 2 Widgets for network package management - 2 Fusion Widgets, combining all three main features all in one - 2 Sets of Lock screen widgets for Battery level and 24h history also Storage remaining and graph Please note: Our team is always working on estimations and enhancing smart algorithms for make them more precise but they are not ideal and error free. Due to iPhone power efficiency Home Screen widgets will not always update instantly. iOS itself refresh widgets data and it depends on user interactions with app and place of the widget in the home screen. —- Contact —- We always put user suggestions first and we are greatly appreciated if you send us feedbacks and reviews. Email: smartbattery@smartbits-studio.com Privacy Policy: http://smartbits-studio.com/SmartBattery/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Smart Battery Widget at none against Cloud Battery's shown. Smart Battery Widget also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (58% vs 40%). Cloud Battery's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 188) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Cloud Battery sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Smart Battery Widget sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Smart Battery Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cloud Battery has 1.5K ratings behind it against 188, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Cloud Battery's written reviews are positive against 58% of Smart Battery Widget's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cloud Battery | Smart Battery Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1.5K ratings) | 4.3 (188 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.8% of reviews | 57.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 188 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alan Yan | Elham Madh Farimani |
Customer experience
Cloud Battery
Smart Battery Widget
User reviews
Cloud Battery
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Useful for tracking multiple devices
- 👍 Clean and simple design
- 💡 Innovative concept
- 🚀 Works across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
- 👍 Customizable widget options
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inaccurate battery readings
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🐛 Syncing issues and delays
- 🐛 Compatibility problems with newer devices
- 🐛 Unreliable notifications
Smart Battery Widget
From 188 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Beautiful and modern UI design
- 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
- 📊 Useful widget functionality for monitoring battery, storage, and data
- ⚡ Lightweight app with minimal resource usage
- 🆓 No ads or intrusive monetization
Room to improve
- 🐛 Battery estimation features frequently broken or showing zero values
- 🐛 Widgets not displaying correctly or updating in real-time
- 🐛 Data accuracy issues across multiple features
- 🐛 iOS compatibility problems (iOS 16, 17, and newer versions)
- 🐛 iPad version not functioning properly
Bugs and requests
Cloud Battery
Reported bugs
5 issues- Devices disappearing from the app
- Widget not updating correctly
- Crashes when trying to share device status
- Incorrect battery percentages displayed
- Inability to add certain devices like older MacBooks
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for AirPods and other Bluetooth devices
- Improve Apple Watch integration and complication options
- Allow customization of device order in the app and widget
- Provide more detailed battery health information
- Implement a background refresh mode to keep data up-to-date
Smart Battery Widget
Reported bugs
14 issues- Battery consumption estimations showing zero or stuck values
- Widgets not appearing in widget menu or home screen
- Fusion widget displaying as blank white block
- Widget not updating in real-time without opening app
- Storage widget showing incorrect capacity values
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- Data widget not resetting after manual reset
- Cellular data percentage meter glitched
- Game category mislabeled as 'Call' in battery widget
- iPad version showing blank boxes or no values
- App freezing or unable to navigate between pages
- Widget showing previous data plus new data combined
- Battery percentage not updating on widget
- Inaccurate data usage compared to system stats
- App crashing or not loading after recent updates
Requested features
11 requests- Clear mode support for iOS 26 widgets
- Apple Watch app support
- Auto-reset of data package on fixed monthly date
- Real-time network speed monitoring widgets
- Show which apps/processes are using network
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- Customizable widget colors to match home screen theme
- Daily data limit option in addition to monthly
- Permanent dark theme option
- Notification alerts for data package limits
- Continuous real-time updates during charging
- Better iPad compatibility and functionality
In-app purchases
Cloud Battery
- Remove Ads & Customization$4.99
Smart Battery Widget
- Lock screen widgets$1.99
- Fusion Widget$1.99
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