SolarMate vs Grape Solar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SolarMate
Monitor your photovoltaic (PV) system's performance with this intelligent app. Connect wirelessly to your devices to view real-time work information, historical data, and equipment parameters. Adjust device settings and gain insights into your PV system's overall health.
- Wireless PV device monitoring
- Real-time work information
- Historical data tracking
- Equipment parameter display
- PV system information
- Device parameter settings
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SolarMate is an intelligent PV monitoring APP software. It works with wireless module(Cloud-Box-M2 or BT-02), SolarMate APP can monitor the PV devices by connecting wireless module. Users can obtain work information, historical data, equipment parameters, information of PV system and set device parameters.
Grape Solar
Monitor and control your solar charge controller remotely. View system status, historical data, and adjust parameters like battery type and load settings. Requires a compatible BT module.
- Remote display and operation
- PV, battery, and DC load status
- Historical data display
- Parameter settings
- Battery type adjustment
- Load mode settings
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GrapeSolar APP is used as a remote display and operation panel for the relevant solar charge controller (an external or inbuilt BT module is required for usage). By operation on this APP, you can check the status of PV, battery, DC load for the solar DC charge system with charge controller. We have 3 main pages of operations in ChargePro 2.0. The first page is for displaying the status of the system, the 2nd page is for displaying the historical data, the last page is for displaying the parameters for settings. Except for showing the present system information, we also can set the parameters for the charge controllers in the parameter setting pages, like for battery type, battery charge & discharge voltages, load mode settings and etc. For more information, please contact the solar charge controller providers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Grape Solar at 2.7 against SolarMate's 2.1. SolarMate's advantage is review sentiment (14% vs 0%) and ratings volume (17 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Grape Solar holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SolarMate has 17 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 14% of SolarMate's written reviews are positive against 0% of Grape Solar's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | SolarMate | Grape Solar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (17 ratings) | 2.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 赵标 阙 | HNE |
Customer experience
SolarMate
Grape Solar
In-app purchases
SolarMate
No in-app purchases
Grape Solar
No in-app purchases
