BMS Tool vs MultiBMS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BMS Tool
Monitor your battery management systems via Bluetooth. Supports multiple BMS types including Liontron, XiaoXiang, ANT, and Wattstunde. Offers a screen always-on mode and macOS compatibility.
- Screen Always ON mode
- Multiple BMS support
- Liontron BMS read-only
- XiaoXiang BMS read-only
- ANT BMS read-only
- Wattstunde LiFePo4 read-only
- macOS support
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BMS Tool shows the state of your battery from its battery management system (BMS) over Bluetooth, on the iPhone, the iPad, the Mac and the Apple Watch. Supported BMS: - JBD / XiaoXiang smart BMS, also in Liontron batteries - JK BMS (Jikong) - ANT BMS, the older boards and the newer ANT-BLE boards - Seplos V2 and V3 - Redodo, LiTime, PowerQueen and Starry Sea batteries - WattCycle batteries - Wattstunde LiFePO4 and Wattstunde Nova Core batteries - Ective, LiFeBlue, KiloVault, Enerdrive, Noovi and StartCraft batteries Features: - Charge, voltage, current and power at a glance - Time until full while charging and until empty while discharging, estimated from the present current - Every cell voltage with minimum, maximum, difference and balancing - Temperature sensors, alarms and BMS information - Several batteries in one list, each with its own name - Search for new devices can be switched off: only your own batteries stay in the list - Session values and a CSV log of the readings - Home screen widget - Apple Watch app with complications: charge, cells, temperatures and alarms of the battery open on the iPhone - The display can stay on while the app is open The app reads the values of the BMS and does not change its settings. Ideas and requests are welcome at web.e77code.com/bms-tool.
MultiBMS
Monitor multiple Bluetooth-enabled battery management systems from your iPhone. View detailed pack voltage, cell voltages, current, power, state of charge, and temperature. Build custom battery groups and visualize charging activity.
- Connect to multiple BMS devices
- Detailed pack and cell diagnostics
- Build custom parallel/series battery groups
- Visualize charging and discharging
- Apple Watch companion preview
- Supports JiKong and JBD/Xiaoxiang hardware
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Most battery apps show you one pack. MultiBMS shows you the whole system. Connect every Bluetooth BMS you own, group them the way they're actually wired, and watch the entire bank behave as one — voltage, current, power, state of charge, temperature, capacity and every individual cell, live. SEE THE WHOLE BANK AT ONCE Build a group from any number of packs and MultiBMS aggregates it properly — parallel banks sum their current and capacity, series strings sum their voltage. One gauge for the bank, and every pack underneath it. Six batteries in an off-grid build read as one system instead of six apps you keep switching between. EVERY CELL, FOUR WAYS Bars, heat map, rows or grid. Minimum, maximum and delta across the whole bank or per pack, with the weak cell called out before it becomes a problem. Watch the balancer work in real time. RECORD WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED Start a recording and MultiBMS logs the run at one-second resolution. Pick a Battery Bank preset for a house system or a Vehicle preset for a ride, choose exactly which metrics to capture, and add per-cell and per-pack detail when you want the full picture. A live dyno cockpit shows the run as it happens — speed, volts, amps, kilowatts, state of charge, G-force — with peak draw, peak power and energy pulled tracked as you go. REPLAY IT LIKE FOOTAGE Cinema Replay plays any recorded run back as a scrubbing timeline with every channel drawn together. Find the moment the voltage sagged, the moment the pack got hot, the moment you hit peak power. Then export it: CSV for a spreadsheet, a formatted PDF report, or a share card that fits in a message. ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app is a full second screen, not a notification relay. A live dyno cockpit that mirrors the run on your phone. Race Control with lap timing and per-lap energy. Ride profiles for e-bikes, karts and carts with GPS speed, distance and G-force. Fleet and cell views for the whole bank. Start and stop a recording from your wrist and the phone follows. ALERTS THAT MATTER Set your own limits for pack temperature, low pack voltage and low cell voltage. MultiBMS tells you the moment something crosses the line, whether you're looking at the app or not. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOUR RIG Thirteen interface skins, from an off-grid instrument bay to a racing cluster, marine, aviation, industrial and a retro terminal. Four dyno themes for the recorder. Four charge-flow animations — rail, orbit, mist and plasma — so charging and discharging read at a glance from across the room. WORKS WITH YOUR HARDWARE MultiBMS speaks 30 Bluetooth Low Energy BMS protocols covering drop-in lithium packs, server-rack storage, active balancers, shunt meters and portable power stations. Support varies by model and firmware — the full, current compatibility list lives at multibms.com. Not sure yours is covered? Email support@multibms.com with your battery and BMS model. We add protocols, and we're quick about it. READ-ONLY BY DESIGN MultiBMS reads telemetry. It does not write settings, change limits or reconfigure your BMS. Your battery keeps doing exactly what it was doing. NO ACCOUNT, NO SUBSCRIPTION No sign-up, no cloud, no recurring charge. Your data stays on your device. Premium skins are optional one-time purchases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BMS Tool at Free against MultiBMS's $0.99. MultiBMS's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). On rating, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support 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
BMS Tool is free to download; MultiBMS costs $0.99 up front. BMS Tool sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and MultiBMS sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for BMS Tool against 4.0 for MultiBMS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of BMS Tool's written reviews are positive against 100% of MultiBMS's.
BMS Tool ships an update every 2 months, MultiBMS every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BMS Tool | MultiBMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #193 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | e77code GmbH | SJP Custom Solutions LLC |
Customer experience
BMS Tool
MultiBMS
In-app purchases
BMS Tool
- Remove Ads$3.99
MultiBMS
- E-Bike Rally$0.99
- Bus Life$0.99
- Off Grid$0.99
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- Retro Terminal$0.99
- Marine$0.99
- Arctic Ice$0.99
- Matrix Code$0.99
- Emergency$0.99
- CAT Equipment$0.99
- Aviation$0.99







