SMART BMS vs Solar App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SMART BMS
Connect to and manage your lithium battery via Bluetooth. Monitor battery status, query information, and set safety parameters. Receive alerts for battery faults and track their occurrences.
- Bluetooth battery connection
- Battery status query
- Fault alarm monitoring
- Safety parameter settings
- Password protection for settings
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1. The uniqueness of the Bluetooth name ensures that users can accurately connect and manage the corresponding lithium battery; 2. Information query management can be performed on the battery, the user can query the relevant status of each string of batteries, and replace or maintain the abnormal battery; 3. Safety setting and reading battery protection parameters, user setting parameters, you need to enter a password to modify the parameters; 4. Monitor battery fault alarms and display the current faults,and the number of faults in the battery;
Solar App
Connect and manage your solar energy system components, including controllers, inverters, and lithium batteries. Monitor your system's performance and ensure optimal energy generation.
- Connects solar controllers
- Connects inverters
- Connects lithium batteries
- Device management
- System monitoring
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This is an APP that can connect solar controller, inverter, lithium battery and other devices
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Solar App at 3.1 against SMART BMS's 2.2. SMART BMS's advantage is review sentiment (17% vs 0%) and ratings volume (78 vs 14). 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.
Solar App holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SMART BMS has 78 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of SMART BMS's written reviews are positive against 0% of Solar App's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SMART BMS ships an update every 6 weeks, Solar App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SMART BMS | Solar App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (78 ratings) | 3.1 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 78 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 所兵 邱 | 疆 郭 |
Customer experience
SMART BMS
Solar App
Bugs and requests
SMART BMS
Reported bugs
5 issues- Bluetooth connectivity problems
- Incorrect series/parallel configuration display
- Firmware update issues
- Inconsistent data readings
- Inability to change settings
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Logging and historical data
- Better parameter customization
- Improved battery monitoring metrics
- Apple Watch support
Solar App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SMART BMS
No in-app purchases
Solar App
No in-app purchases
