e vs mySolarEdge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
e
Remotely control your home or business security system and view live video feeds. This app requires compatible security hardware and an eSecure 1.0 service account.
- Remote security control
- Live video viewing
- Home security
- Business security
- Compatible hardware integration
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Protection 1 eSecure™ 1.0 This app provides lifestyle enhancing functionality by combining remote control security with the ability to view live video of your home or business. • This application works in conjunction with our other compatible security hardware products. • An eSecure 1.0 remote service account is required. • Call 1-800-GET-HELP for more information. *** NOTE: For existing eSecure™ users who are already using the version with the silver icon the version of eSecure 2.0™, with the blue icon will not work. Please contact Protection 1 for additional information. *** *** This version of eSecure is intended only for use with eSecure 1.0 compatible hardware from Protection 1. If your hardware is eSecure 2.0 compatible, please download our eSecure 2.0 app elsewhere in the App store. If you have questions, please contact Protection 1 for additional information ***
mySolarEdge
Monitor and control your SolarEdge smart energy devices remotely. Track energy production and consumption in real-time, identify efficiency improvements, and manage smart home devices and EV charging. Troubleshoot inverter issues with guided instructions.
- Real-time energy tracking
- Energy efficiency identification
- Smart home device control
- Remote EV charging management
- Inverter status and troubleshooting
- Network setting configuration
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Manage your SolarEdge smart energy devices – anytime, anywhere Use mySolarEdge to maximize your SolarEdge experience as well as your electricity savings: · Track your energy use and production in real-time, with mobile-optimized features · Identify ways to become more energy efficient · Control your smart home devices and manage SolarEdge EV charging remotely · View solar inverter status for quick troubleshooting using step-by-step instructions and easy to read menus in SetApp-enabled inverters only · Set-up inverter communication and network settings in SetApp-enabled inverters only * To get monitoring permissions, contact your installer. ** For energy usage monitoring, a consumption meter is required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: mySolarEdge at 4.5 against e's 2.6. mySolarEdge also leads on ratings volume (19K vs 9) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). e's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). 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.
mySolarEdge holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: mySolarEdge has 19K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of e's written reviews are positive against 31% of mySolarEdge's.
e ships an update every 2 months, mySolarEdge every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | e | mySolarEdge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (9 ratings) | 4.5 (19K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews | 31.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 19K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Protection One | SolarEdge Technologies |
Customer experience
e
mySolarEdge
User reviews
e
From 9 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works well when set up
- 👍 Convenient remote control
- 👍 Keypad interface is cute
- 👍 Useful for basic functions
- 👍 Works with iPhone 5/iOS 7 (historically)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes on iOS 7
- 🐛 Slow connection times
- 🐛 Often doesn't connect
- 🐛 Freezing and spinning
- 🐛 Not working on iPhone 6
mySolarEdge
From 19K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Much better functionality
- 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
- 🚀 Reliable and stable
- 👍 Helpful information and monitoring
- 🚀 Graphical improvements
Room to improve
- 🔋 Limited battery control options
- 🐛 Widget graph often wrong
- 🐛 Inaccurate production readings
- 🐛 Stopped working/updating
- 🐛 Inconsistent data and performance
Bugs and requests
e
Reported bugs
63 issues- App needs updating
- Does not work!!!
- Update Please!!
- App needs updating
- Update badly needed
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- App needs updating
- Update needed!
- Not working
- Horrible App
- Often doesn't connect
- Freezing
- Works some of the time only.
- No longer working
- App no longer working!
- Recently broken?
- Failing Communication Error message
- Failure to communicate
- Junk
- Horrible not working on iOS 7
- App doesn't work with iOS 7
- Nominal before the update to ios7, now does not work at all.
- Doesn't work anymore and was horrible before
- Does not work on iOS 7
- Crash after update to ios7.
- Broke in iOS 7
- Needs update
- Bad after iO7
- Worst app ever
- Has been great
- Doesn't work after iOS 7 update
- It did work great
- Reliability
- Stinks
- Horrible when it worked
- Terrible
- Great until ios 7
- App not functional under iOS 7
- Crashes under iOS 7
- Need to fix...
- No iOS 7 support.
- Does not work with iOS 7
- App won't work with iOS 7
- No Bells and Whistles but works
- Not happy :(
- Inconsistent
- Yeah it works but
- App doesn't work at all & no updates for over a year
- Too slow
- Update please!
- Old-fashioned, slow, and... useless under iOS6.
- Too Slow and doesn't work!
- Works, but slow
- App works for me
- Works Great!!!
- Pure garbage!!!
- Seriously?!
- No fun with protection 1
- No video
- Functional but Barely
- Crap
- Very slow
- SLOWWWWWW
- Good app.....but
Requested features
12 requests- Update the app
- Modern update needed
- Update for iOS compatibility
- Improve connection speed
- Add logout option
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- Update for iOS 7 ASAP
- Enable addition of more than 2 mobile devices
- Push message to keypad from phone
- Alert notifications on security breach via SMS
- Higher resolution graphics for icon and UI
- Add video functionality
- Improve UI design
mySolarEdge
Reported bugs
5 issues- Login issues and password reset problems
- Incorrect daily production units
- Delayed or missing data updates
- Incompatibility with newer devices
- Inability to edit account information
Requested features
6 requests- Add ability to set charging/discharging limits
- Add ability to control charging current
- Add production vs time of day graph
- Add ability to view individual panel production
- Add ability to set alerts/notifications for issues
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- Add ability to customize electricity rates and costs
In-app purchases
e
No in-app purchases
mySolarEdge
No in-app purchases
