GridRewards vs Madali
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GridRewards
Earn cash back and reduce your electricity bill by learning when and how to cut energy usage. This free app helps you create new energy-saving habits and understand your consumption. Participate in events to save electricity and get paid, while also reducing your carbon footprint.
- Earn cash payments for reducing energy usage
- Reduce electricity bills
- Participate in energy-saving events
- Refer friends for extra rewards
- Reduce carbon footprint
- Personalized energy insights
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GridRewards is an award-winning, free app that tells you when and how to reduce your energy usage. Earn cash payments and reduce your electricity bill all year round. An average household can earn more than $100/year — oh, and 98% of GridRewards participants got paid last year. GridRewards is a powerful tool to create new routines and change our behavior around energy use. We encourage people to be more mindful of our power consumption, how energy is produced, and how our daily actions add up. Together with our neighbors, our small change adds up to real change, real carbon impact, and real money. And we shift the power from energy companies to our communities. HOW IT WORKS 1. Unplug during events. GridRewards events are the most important times to save electricity. We’ll tell you when they’re happening — usually during hot summer afternoons, about 5-10 times per year. 2. Get paid. Get your friends paid. We'll send you a check at the end of the year for the electricity you save during events. Get $10 extra for each friend you refer. Work together with your neighborhood to earn extra rewards and multiply your impact! 3. Reduce your carbon footprint. Keep an eye on your electricity use and carbon footprint. Get personalized energy insights and learn about the best times to use energy. WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM? Your utility company pays to reduce electricity at peak times to help maintain system reliability in your community.
Madali
Simplify planning for small events like birthdays and baby showers. Organize details, invite guests, and manage day-of tasks with a clear timeline. Guests can contribute photos directly to your Google Drive.
- Event planning for small gatherings
- Guest invitations and role management
- Live event timeline with updates
- Guest photo contributions
- Google Drive photo backup
- Recurring event scheduling (Circles)
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Madali makes small-event planning feel calm, clear, and beautiful. Baby showers, birthdays, graduations, dinner parties, cultural celebrations, and intimate weddings all follow the same simple rhythm: choose the event, shape the plan, invite the right people, and enjoy the day. THREE PLACES, NO CLUTTER Home keeps your celebrations easy to find. Plan holds the details, invitations, helpers, and countdown. Event brings the live timeline and day-of tools together. EVERY PERSON SEES THE RIGHT VIEW Hosts stay in control. Helpers and vendors see the timeline and tasks they need. Guests get useful event details without the behind-the-scenes work. The guest of honor gets a calm view made for enjoying the moment. BROWSER RSVP, NO GUEST ACCOUNT Send a private invitation link by text, WhatsApp, email, or wherever you already talk. Guests answer Going, Maybe, or Not Going in their browser without installing Madali or creating an account. ADD TO CALENDAR Hosts can hand a celebration to Apple Calendar or Google Calendar. Guests who successfully RSVP can download an Apple Calendar file or open an editable Google Calendar draft. Calendar entries are one-time copies and do not update automatically if the Madali plan later changes. MAKE IT A CIRCLE Turn a familiar gathering into a weekly or monthly rhythm. Every gathering gets its own event and RSVP count. Edit, skip, or cancel one gathering without changing the rest. AUTOMATIC CIRCLE EMAIL, ONLY WHEN CHOSEN For a scheduled Circle, the host can turn on automatic email reminders. Each guest chooses Email or No recurring reminders from their own private invitation. Group links cannot grant recurring email permission. Madali does not send SMS in this version. EVERYONE'S PHOTOS, SAVED IN YOUR OWN DRIVE Guests can add photos from Madali or their browser invitation. You review what arrives and choose what the group sees, and every picture is saved into a folder in your own Google Drive. HELPERS GET CLEAR TASKS Assign a simple action and short instruction to a helper or vendor, so everyone knows what needs doing without a noisy group chat. START FREE, THEN CHOOSE WHAT FITS Free includes one active celebration, one helper or vendor, core planning tools, Circles, and a limited automatic-email allowance. Madali Host is $3.99 per month or $39.99 per year for frequent hosts, with photo collection for every event while subscribed and 500 automatic Circle email sends per month. Existing galleries remain viewable after the subscription expires. Madali Pro is $19.99 per month and adds Portfolio, private Crews, and cross-client Tasks for people who run celebrations for others. Guests and helpers never pay. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Madali Host ($3.99/month or $39.99/year) and Madali Pro ($19.99/month) are auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Madali Service Terms: https://madalievents.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://madalievents.com/privacy Madali means “easy” or “quick” in Tagalog. Madali is the simpler small-event companion from EventSync Day-Of.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GridRewards at none against Madali's 5. GridRewards also leads on ratings volume (977 vs 2). Madali's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, monetization model, device support and iOS requirement 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. Madali sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. GridRewards asks for nothing beyond the download.
Madali holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GridRewards has 977 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
GridRewards ships an update every 3 weeks, Madali every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GridRewards | Madali |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (977 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 977 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Energy Technology Savings LLC | Kali McCarthy |
Customer experience
GridRewards
Madali
Bugs and requests
GridRewards
Reported bugs
3 issues- Events section not working after latest update
- Unable to enter zip code on initial screen
- Inability to link or disconnect utility account
Requested features
3 requests- Include winter energy usage data
- Improve account management and deletion options
- Provide more detailed energy usage analytics
Madali
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
GridRewards
No in-app purchases
Madali
- Madali Pro$19.991 Month
- Madali Host$49.001 Year
- Madali Pro Annual$199.991 Year
- Everything, forever$9.99
- Madali Pass$14.99









