Comparison

MLGW vs GCM Survey

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

MLGW

Manage your utility services with ease. Pay bills, arrange service transfers, set up payment plans, and opt for paperless billing. All your essential account management tools are just a click away.

Highlights
  • Pay bills online
  • Stop/transfer utility service
  • Make payment arrangements
  • Go paperless
  • Access account information
Features
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With the updated My Account feature, customers are a click away from paying their bills, stopping and transferring utility service, making payment arrangements or going paperless. To sign up, customers need a valid email address, and their 16-digit MLGW account number and access code, which can be found on the MLGW bill.

About

GCM Survey

Features
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GCM Survey turns your iPhone or iPad into the screen, the control panel and the safety net for your Geosensors data logger. Join the logger's own Wi-Fi network and you have the whole survey in your hands — no internet, no cables, no laptop in the field. LIVE SURVEY MONITORING See the survey as it happens. Your track draws itself on the map in real time, rotating course-up as you walk the line so the display always matches the direction you're facing. Live EM traces, GPS quality, satellite count, battery voltage, temperature, pitch and roll are all a tap away while you record. PRE-FLIGHT CHECK BEFORE YOU START Data is flowing before you press Start, so the readiness panel tells you what the logger can actually see: EM sensor live and how many separations, GPS fix quality, free storage. Catch a dead sensor or a bad fix at the truck instead of at the end of the line. FULL CONTROL OF THE LOGGER Start, pause, resume and stop surveys from your phone. Pauses are recorded properly — the track breaks where you stopped and picks up where you resumed, so distance and duration never count the walk back to the truck. SPOKEN ALERTS Eyes on the ground, not on the screen. The app speaks up when something needs you: a card error, a receiver overflow, storage running low, or a data source that has gone quiet. Mute it any time. IT SURVIVES INTERRUPTIONS The logger is the source of truth and it keeps recording no matter what your phone does. Walk out of range, get a call, relaunch the app — reconnect and the app rejoins the survey in progress, refetches only the bytes it missed and redraws the full track. A dropped packet or a missed poll is never treated as a lost survey. Phone battery dies mid survey? Simply connect a different phone or iPad to the same logger and continue as you were. FINISH AND REVIEW IN SECONDS Because the app captures data live as you record, there's no long download at the end. Stop the survey and the summary is already there: sample count, distance, duration, average speet, GPS quality and EM channel coverage. Every finishedsurvey is verified byte-for-byte against the logger's own checksum before you keep it, then saved or discarded with one tap. CHARTS AND EXPORT Plot EM waveform channels for any survey on the devicrt and share in the format your processing softwarewants: • NMEA — the raw sentence stream • XYZ — tab-separated, with UTM easting and northing • LOG — legacy tab-separated columns • CSV — dated, full-channel CSV Share straight to Files, Mail, AirDrop etc. MANAGE THE LOGGER Browse, import, rename and delete files on the logger's SD card, check free space, set the device clock, configure serial port baud rates, and change the logger's name, Wi-Fi network anSettings screen. Firmware updates are guided step bystep, with the app reconnecting and confirming the new version for you when the logger comes back up. BUILT FOR THE FIELD Designed for iPhone and iPad. Everything works entirely offline over the logger's own Wi-Fi. Requires a Geosensors GCM Logger. Contact support@geosensors.com with any questions.

Screenshots

MLGW4 screens
GCM Survey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: GCM Survey at every 4 days against MLGW's every 2 months. MLGW's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MLGW ships an update every 2 months, GCM Survey every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MLGW versus GCM Survey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMLGWGCM Survey
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (7.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings7.3K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMemphis Light, Gas & WaterGeosensors

Bugs and requests

MLGW

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App freezes or gets stuck loading
  • Login credentials not working
  • Outage information not accurate
  • Billing issues and inconsistencies

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to view and print bills
  • Improve outage map usability
  • Implement push notifications for outages
  • Allow deleting/editing payment methods
  • Provide more detailed usage data

GCM Survey

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

MLGW

No in-app purchases

None

GCM Survey

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MLGW free?
MLGW is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GCM Survey free?
GCM Survey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MLGW or GCM Survey have ads?
Neither MLGW nor GCM Survey shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MLGW or GCM Survey?
MLGW ships an update every 2 months, and GCM Survey every 4 days. Most recently, MLGW was updated on November 1, 2026 and GCM Survey on October 28, 2026.

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