SPAN Home vs MSPure
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SPAN Home
This app provides smart control over your home's electrical panel, allowing you to monitor energy usage, manage individual rooms and appliances, and uncover cost-saving insights. It enhances home energy management and offers advanced features when paired with solar and battery systems, including EV charging.
- Real-time energy dashboard
- Room and appliance level control
- Cost saving insights
- Power outage protection
- EV charging integration
- Over-the-air updates
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For SPAN Panel MAIN 32 “This thing is a game changer. This is how you save money” - Jon Dawson, Next-gen builder “A long-overdue, borderline genius product that puts much-needed control back into the hands of homeowners.” - Wired Magazine “SPAN is now the center of my smart home. I’ve been waiting most of my life for this product” - A SPAN customer SPAN reinvented the 100-year-old electrical panel with smarter controls for smarter savings. It replaces your existing electrical panel and gives you complete control over every room and appliance in your home right from your phone. From anywhere in the world, the SPAN Home® App allows you to: Centralize your home’s energy data into one real-time dashboard, giving you a 360° view of your home’s energy performance Make real-time energy changes at the room and appliance level to suit your needs and lower your energy bill Uncover cost-saving insights designed to lower your energy bill and save you money When paired with solar panels and a home battery system, SPAN gives you the best protection against power outages by extending battery life by 40%, providing whole-home backup on a single battery system, and the unmatched flexibility to change what your battery system powers in an outage. Your SPAN Home can include SPAN Drive, a universal EV charger that delivers up to 41 miles of range per hour (48A, 11.52kW) of charging for the fastest charging speeds available - all without a service upgrade to install. The SPAN Home App is constantly improving with free, over-the-air updates designed to improve your experience and unlock greater savings.
MSPure
Control your smart home devices remotely and simultaneously from anywhere. This app simplifies connecting to your devices, aiming to create a cleaner, healthier, and more comfortable living environment.
- Remote device control
- Simultaneous multi-device control
- Easy device connection
- Create a clean living environment
- Purify water and air
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MSPure smart home App. 1. Remote control: control your devices from anywhere. 2. Simultaneously control: control multiple devices with one App. 3. Easy connection: easily and quickly connect App to devices. Our values Bringing purity and health to individuals, families, nature, and the earth is our philosophy. We are committed to offering the products of highest quality to truly purify water and air, to create a clean, comfortable, secure and sustainable living environment for every consumer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MSPure at 100% against SPAN Home's 29%. MSPure also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). SPAN Home's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 24 months). 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.
MSPure holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 104 and 47 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of SPAN Home's written reviews are positive against 100% of MSPure's.
SPAN Home ships an update fortnightly, MSPure every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SPAN Home | MSPure |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (104 ratings) | 4.9 (47 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 104 — better | 47 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 24 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 191 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Span.io, Inc | Membrane Solutions (Nantong) Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
SPAN Home
MSPure
Bugs and requests
SPAN Home
Reported bugs
34 issues- App freezes on iPad
- Circuit switching sometimes fails
- App shows ads for other products
- Energy usage data is inaccurate or delayed
- PowerUp feature control is hidden
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- App needs force quit to work
- Data fails to load or stalls
- App loses connectivity with batteries
- System does not function as intended during power outages
- Estimated battery hours/minutes are incorrect
- App shows panel offline when it's online
- App recently deleted backup instructions
- App displays data hours old
- App crashes or encounters problems constantly
- App is slow to load
- App is sluggish and chunky
- App shows solar production at night
- App does not support Powerwall 2
- Responsiveness for switching breakers is poor
- Circuit monitoring breaks frequently
- Panel does not function offline
- Password change process is difficult
- App does not integrate multiple panels correctly
- Setup was a pain
- App in a cycle of constant loading
- App does not have native iPad support
- App UI looks dated
- App crashes and takes a while to launch
- App loses connection to battery system frequently
- App disconnects way too often
- App is seriously dumbed down from v1
- App has basic inconsistencies in real-time stats
- App data does not match Tesla App
- App only supports Alexa and it doesn't work
Requested features
23 requests- Unified view for multiple panels
- Improved app customization
- More robust connectivity
- Better Tesla battery integration support
- Easier labeling of breakers
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- Darker, more readable app interface
- Desktop dashboard/web app
- Smaller SPAN sub-panel option
- Modular sub-panel breaker monitoring
- Public API for Home Assistant integration
- Native iPad support (split screen, hover)
- More smart home integration (Apple HomeKit)
- Ability to toggle between panels with swipe
- Increased character limit for circuit names
- iOS Widget for at-a-glance data
- Schedule breakers to turn on/off automatically
- Better daily data view for breaker level changes
- 2FA for account security
- Historical usage per circuit
- SPAN Drive mode for solar-only charging
- Basic voltage readouts for grid diagnostics
- Improved Time of Day Plans functionality
- Fix for 'areas' feature for multi-panel setups
MSPure
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SPAN Home
No in-app purchases
MSPure
No in-app purchases









