BMS Tool vs BMS Pal
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) - Daly smart BMS - 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 - History with charts and statistics: charge, power, voltage, temperatures and cells over a day, a week, a month or a year, energy per day, export as CSV - Alarms as notifications while the app runs - Home and lock screen widgets - 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.
BMS Pal
Consolidate data from various battery management systems into a single, live list. Monitor state of charge, voltage, current, and more with detailed per-cell views and historical charts. Offers advanced features like capacity testing and AI-powered sanity checks for your battery packs.
- Live telemetry from multiple BMS
- Per-cell voltage and balancing indicators
- Protection alerts in plain language
- Group packs for combined readings
- Capacity test and history logging
- Chemistry detection and override
- AI-powered sanity checks
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All your batteries. One app. A JBD pack in the garage, a Victron in the van, a power station on the table - and a different vendor app for each one. BMS Pal ends the app-hopping: every pack you own in one live list, with state of charge, voltage, current, watts, and time remaining. Device detail pages have tools for a deep dive into your devices. Up to eight connected at once. EIGHT FAMILIES AT LAUNCH BMS boards get the deep treatment - per-cell voltages with live balancing indicators, protection alerts, chemistry detection, configuration reads, and confirmation-gated FET control: - JBD (including XiaoXiang and legacy variants) - JK - Daly Battery monitors and power stations get their essentials, with the same charts and history: - Victron (including encrypted advertising) - Junctek KL-F shunt monitors - Bluetti, Jackery, and EcoFlow power stations Coverage varies by family - the full who-reports-what table is at bmspal.app. WHAT IT DOES - Live telemetry: voltage, current, power, temperature, and state of charge stream in as your BMS reports them. Charts hold the last week, so you can see what happened while you slept. - Per-cell detail: every cell gets its own bar, down to the millivolt. Cells the BMS is balancing light up, so you can watch the spread tighten in real time. - Alerts, plainly stated: protection events appear in plain language. No sirens, no red flashing. Just the facts. - Groups: packs that work as one bank read as one battery. Group them series, parallel, or series-parallel and get combined voltage, current, and state of charge. - Capacity tests: run a real discharge test on any pack that reports current. BMS Pal integrates it over time against your cutoff and files the result in the pack's history, so "how many amp-hours, really?" gets a measured answer. - Chemistry detection: BMS Pal reads your protection thresholds and works out whether the pack is LiFePO4 or Li-ion. You can override it - you know your pack best. - Sanity Checks: not sure those numbers are fine? Send a snapshot of your pack for an AI review across six dimensions and get a written verdict back - findings graded by severity, with the reasoning and trade-offs spelled out. You see exactly what is sent before anything leaves your phone, and nothing is sent until you tap. BMS boards only, where the setup can actually be changed. - Write mode, off by default: toggling charge or discharge FETs is serious business on a high-energy pack. Writes sit behind a master switch plus a per-command confirmation, and every attempt is logged. LOCAL-FIRST. ACTUALLY LOCAL. No account, ever. No analytics, no trackers, no background traffic. Your telemetry history lives on your device; delete the app and it is gone. The only network calls are the ones you explicitly ask for (a Sanity Check or a problem report), and you see the exact payload first. THE DEAL Free download, and everything works for 7 days - every protocol, every feature, no card up front. Then $5 unlocks it for good: one purchase, no subscription, no "premium tier" holding features hostage. Sanity Checks run in the cloud and cost real server money, so the app includes 25 and $2 adds 25 more. Everything else runs entirely on your device. ONE DEVELOPER, ONE BENCH Every supported family sits on my bench: 92 wire-protocol variants documented, 1,100+ automated tests in the suite. Got a pack that will not identify, a value that reads wrong, or a feature idea? Report a Problem, Confirm Device Support, and Send Feedback are built in, replies land in your Support inbox, and none of it is ever paywalled. Your reports steer the roadmap. Runs on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Silicon Macs. JBD, XiaoXiang, JK, Daly, Victron, Junctek, Bluetti, Jackery, and EcoFlow are trademarks of their respective owners. BMS Pal is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by any battery vendor. BMS Pal shows you what your BMS reports; it is not a substitute for proper fusing, wiring, and common sense.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BMS Pal at 5.0 against BMS Tool's 3.9. BMS Pal also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks). BMS Tool's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.2). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. BMS Tool sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BMS Pal sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BMS Pal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BMS Tool has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of BMS Tool's written reviews are positive against 100% of BMS Pal's.
BMS Tool ships an update every 6 weeks, BMS Pal every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BMS Tool | BMS Pal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | e77code GmbH | Inquiring Minds, Inc |
Customer experience
BMS Tool
BMS Pal
In-app purchases
BMS Tool
- Remove Ads$3.99
BMS Pal
- 25 Additional Sanity Checks$2.00
- BMS Pal Unlock (Lifetime)$5.00







