SPAN Home vs Elfsys Grow Cloud
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.
Elfsys Grow Cloud
Manage and scale your indoor growing setups with this app. Control all your devices from a single virtual space, automate schedules, and customize growing parameters for various plants. It offers a cost-effective way to automate your gardening needs.
- Device management in one virtual space
- Automated growing schedules
- Customizable growing templates
- Plant attribute tagging
- Growth stage adaptation
- Wi-Fi smart technology integration
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For every indoor-growing setup, Elfsys Grow Cloud is there to help you manage and scale. Control all your devices in one place Elfsys Grow Cloud maps all your devices into one virtual space for push-button control. Set up new systems in minutes. All you need is a Wi-Fi power strip. Run fully automated schedules to keep your plants happy. Automation at a fraction of the cost Elfsys runs on Wi-Fi smart technology, using plugs that cost $40 each. Simple yet powerful, automate any growing devices. Customize growing for every planting need From fresh herbs to gourmet tomatoes, Elfsys Grow Cloud keeps tailored growing templates at your fingertip. Name your plants and tag their attributes. Define growth stages for auto-adaptation of growing configurations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Elfsys Grow Cloud at 4.0 against SPAN Home's 3.6. Elfsys Grow Cloud also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). SPAN Home's advantage is ratings volume (103 vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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.
Elfsys Grow Cloud holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SPAN Home has 103 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SPAN Home ships an update fortnightly, Elfsys Grow Cloud monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SPAN Home | Elfsys Grow Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (103 ratings) | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 143 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Span.io, Inc | Elfsys LLC |
Customer experience
SPAN Home
Elfsys Grow Cloud
In-app purchases
SPAN Home
No in-app purchases
Elfsys Grow Cloud
No in-app purchases









