Hydro Ottawa vs Grata Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hydro Ottawa
Manage your electricity account 24/7 with this utility app. Access services like outage reporting, account management, and important notifications. Designed for both residential and commercial customers, it offers tools to stay informed and in control of your power services.
- 24/7 account management
- Report power outages
- Account opening/closing
- Alerts and notifications
- Service updates
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Hydro Ottawa’s app provides you with 24/7 access to manage your account online. Redesigned based on customer feedback, it includes new features and enhancements. Open to residential and commercial customers, as well as those without a Hydro Ottawa account, the app allows users to sign up to access a number of services and tools like alerts and notifications, report an outage, or open, close or update a new or existing account. New features and functionalities will be rolled out in phases over 2023. Hydro Ottawa Limited, a subsidiary of Hydro Ottawa Holding Inc., delivers electricity to homes and businesses in the City of Ottawa and the Village of Casselman. For more than a century, Hydro Ottawa has supplied its customers with clean, safe and reliable power to help build a vibrant and sustainable national capital region. As a leading partner in a smart energy future, Hydro Ottawa proudly contributes to the well-being of the community it serves through its integration of innovative and sustainable business practices, corporate citizenship initiatives, and offering best-in-class customer service.
Grata Manager
This application is designed for building managers to configure smart locks. It provides the necessary tools for managing access and settings related to property security.
- Configure smart locks
- Manage property access
- Building management tool
- Security settings
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Grata Manager is an app used by our building managers for configuring the locks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Grata Manager at 100% against Hydro Ottawa's 25%. Grata Manager also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 weeks). 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.
Hydro Ottawa ships an update every 5 weeks, Grata Manager every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hydro Ottawa | Grata Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hydro Ottawa | Grata Technologies Inc. |
Customer experience
Hydro Ottawa
Grata Manager
In-app purchases
Hydro Ottawa
No in-app purchases
Grata Manager
No in-app purchases
