Carbon3 EV vs Plugmatic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Carbon3 EV
Find and use EV charge points across the UK. Manage charging sessions, pay for electricity, and monitor your carbon offset. Offers comprehensive EV charging management, including installation and maintenance services.
- Locate EV charging stations
- Manage charging sessions
- Pay for charging via card or prepaid balance
- Access open and closed charging networks
- Monitor carbon offset and energy usage
- EV charger installation and maintenance
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Effortless charging with the Carbon3 App! Simply select your charger using the app to start and finish your charge session. Access to multiple chargers across the UK for both open and closed charging networks. The Carbon3 app provides the simplest solution to find and use an EV charge point - allowing you to locate charging stations, manage your charging sessions and pay via credit or debit card (or top up your pre-paid balance to save on transaction fees!) Carbon3 EV - Market leading OCPP EV charging management! The Carbon3 Umbrella management system that brings your assets together! The Carbon3 system is designed to adopt all hardware and provide a central management offering for both soft and hard services. We will pull the chargers together and manage the portfolio to ensure that they are always functional. If there are any problems, we have service and maintenance technicians on hand to reactively remedy. We will also ensure that the chargers are adequately maintained and safe to use, preserving warranties. Carbon3 is a leading EV Charging, Renewables & Decarbonisation service provider. We work across multiple sectors to ensure emissions are reduced and sustainability objectives are realised. We also provide a full turnkey consultancy, design, supply, and installation service should you want to add more chargers to your portfolio or start a new installation from scratch. Our unique ability to service multiple technologies and multiple decarbonisation services makes it easier and more efficient for our clients to achieve their carbon reduction goals, whilst maintaining an easy one point of contact for invaluable data resulting from our services. We provide accurate data from our systems enabling you to understand how much carbon you are offsetting or how much bills have reduced. The Carbon3 EV charging holistic offering covers the following. Consultancy/design/ supply/ installation/ management of your charging system as well as other decarbonisation technologies such as Solar PV, Heat pumps, heat recovery, energy management to name a few! Soft Services – we will manage your chargers to ensure that the charge session costs, user sets, carbon offset, energy usage and monetary transactions (billing) are regularly monitored and taken care of. Hard Services – should one or multiple chargers go down we will be on hand to make safe and repair. This will ensure that the chargers are live and ready for use as much as possible. We will also provide regular testing and servicing to maximise the life of your chargers and where required warranty processing to minimise replacement costs. Asset adoption – if you have multiple providers of hard and soft services, we can bring this all under one contract. This is more cost effective and easier to manage, in most cases we can also identify energy savings based on the information we manage on your behalf. Revenue management – we have a dedicated transaction team to ensure that charge sessions are billed correctly and passed through to you in an efficient manner, streamlining internal involvement, reducing costs, and ensuring you are always protected. End user management – 24/7 helpline to advise end users on how to use the EV charger and help them with any issues they may have. Carbon3 Technologies EV Charging Solar PV Air Source Heat Pumps Mechanical Ventilation & Heat Recovery Energy and condition monitoring systems For more information on Carbon3 and the services we offer please visit www.carbon3.co.uk.
Plugmatic
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Plugmatic is an app for your electric vehicle charging. With Plugmatic you can: – See all charging points locations on the map, and their current availability – Navigate to the location – Start and stop charging – Monitor charging process remotely, in real time – See all of your charging history and stats – Contact our support team via email or phone To charge with Plugmatic you need to be a registered user. The service is postpaid and billed automatically after each charging session. Providing a payment card is necessary to be able to charge on non-free charging points.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Carbon3 EV at weekly against Plugmatic's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Carbon3 EV ships an update weekly, Plugmatic every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Carbon3 EV | Plugmatic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 125 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Carbon3 Ltd | Voltic |
In-app purchases
Carbon3 EV
No in-app purchases
Plugmatic
No in-app purchases









