RdPower vs Balance BMS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RdPower
Control and monitor your RD Series digital power supply via Wi-Fi. View real-time data, display operational curves, switch languages, and save curve data for analysis.
- Wi-Fi connection
- Data display and operation
- Curve display
- Language switching
- Curve data saving
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RD Series digital control power Wi-Fi connection APP, the main functions are data display operation, curve display, language switching, curve data saving
Balance BMS
This app allows users to connect to and manage lithium batteries via Bluetooth. It provides detailed information about battery status, helps identify and manage individual battery strings, and allows for setting and reading safety parameters. Users can also monitor and be alerted to battery faults.
- Bluetooth battery connection
- Battery status query
- Identify abnormal batteries
- Set battery protection parameters
- Monitor battery fault alarms
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1. The uniqueness of the Bluetooth name ensures that users can accurately connect and manage the corresponding lithium battery; 2. Information query management can be performed on the battery, the user can query the relevant status of each string of batteries, and replace or maintain the abnormal battery; 3. Safety setting and reading battery protection parameters, user setting parameters, you need to enter a password to modify the parameters; 4. Monitor battery fault alarms and display the current faults,and the number of faults in the battery;
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Balance BMS at 3.8 against RdPower's 1.7. Balance BMS also leads on review sentiment (31% vs 17%). RdPower's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Balance BMS holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of RdPower's written reviews are positive against 31% of Balance BMS's.
RdPower ships an update every 2 weeks, Balance BMS every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RdPower | Balance BMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (13 ratings) | 3.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 30.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 亮亮 刘 | 所兵 邱 |
Customer experience
RdPower
Balance BMS
In-app purchases
RdPower
No in-app purchases
Balance BMS
No in-app purchases
