Know True vs Monstra
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Know True
This application helps utility customers with solar panels understand how their energy consumption and solar production affect their electricity bills. It also monitors solar system output, alerting users to potential production issues.
- Track energy usage and solar production
- Monitor impact on utility charges
- Solar production monitoring
- Alerts for solar system downtime
- Notifications for potential solar issues
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Know True-Up allows utility customers who also have solar to see how their energy usage habits and solar energy production combine to impact their utility charges. The software program also has a solar production monitoring component, which notifies the Know-True-Up monitoring team when a solar system has not pushed any power to the grid within a 24 hour period. Utility customers are notified when a potential solar production problem is detected. NOTE: This app is intended for existing Know True-Up customers only.
Monstra
Explore and manage automated trading bots, compare their performance, and build a personalized portfolio of investment strategies. Create your own bots and preview backtests before deployment.
- Discover trading bots
- Compare performance on leaderboards
- Build and manage bot portfolios
- Create custom bots
- Preview backtests
- Track portfolio performance
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A strategy engine for systematic investing. Bots turn live stock signals into trades. A Titan orchestrates several bots into one strategy you configure. No code required. Trade with simulated Alpaca paper accounts today inside of Monstra. Use our APIs to use our bot signals outside of Monstra. Monstra is in active development. Everything is free while we build. Every bot's signals are logged and tracked in real time. Automate with our API. Simulated performance. Not financial advice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Know True at none against Monstra's 3. Know True also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Monstra's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 20 months). On price, rating, ads 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. Monstra sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Know True asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Know True against 5.0 for Monstra. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Know True ships an update every 20 months, Monstra every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Know True | Monstra |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Solar Data Pros, LLC | Monstra, LLC |
Customer experience
Know True
Monstra
In-app purchases
Know True
No in-app purchases
Monstra
- Monstra Premium$19.991 Month
- 1 MonstraByte$6.99
- 1 AurumByte$8.99
