Alpha Connect vs Hager flow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alpha Connect
Control your home heating system remotely from your smartphone. Adjust temperatures and manage your comfort from any location, offering convenience and energy savings.
- Remote heating control
- Control from anywhere
- Time-based adjustments
- Temperature management
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Alpha Connect gives you the freedom to control your heating at any time from anywhere.
Hager flow
This app intelligently manages your home's energy by balancing generation and consumption. It optimizes storage and charging of self-generated energy, offering features like Boost mode for electric vehicles and customizable charging settings.
- Intelligent energy management
- PV power balancing
- Energy storage optimization
- EV charging control
- Visualization of power data
- Customizable charging modes
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Your Energy Management – with flow by Hager Store, manage, charge: flow by Hager stands for intelligent energy management. The system helps balance generation and consumption amid fluctuating PV power production by proactively storing energy and making it available to various consumers as needed—for example, at night when the system isn’t generating power. Generation, consumption, storage, and grid feed-in are managed economically according to the priorities of self-consumption, storage, and grid feed-in. - Management of all energy flows in the home - Visualization of all relevant power and consumption data - Want to quickly charge your electric vehicle to full capacity? Activate Boost mode directly via the flow app. Depending on availability, the EV will then be charged with PV power or grid power. - Set the various charging modes for your witty Wallbox directly via the app Smart and simple. No stress. Just flow. Optimizes the storage, management, and charging of self-generated energy for private households.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Alpha Connect at none against Hager flow's shown. Alpha Connect also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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.
Alpha Connect ships an update every 6 months, Hager flow every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on June 8, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alpha Connect | Hager flow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 7.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ALPHA THERM LTD | HagerEnergy GmbH |
Customer experience
Alpha Connect
Hager flow
In-app purchases
Alpha Connect
No in-app purchases
Hager flow
No in-app purchases
Questions
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