NAEC Mobile vs NEXT IQ
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NAEC Mobile
Manage your utility account with ease. This app provides secure access to view your balance, make payments, schedule alerts, and receive important notifications. Stay connected and informed about your account from anywhere.
- Secure account access
- View account balance
- Make payments
- Schedule alerts and reminders
- Receive push notifications
- Connect via social media
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Our Mobile App is designed to give you fast, secure account access so you can easily manage your account details, view your bill and your account balance, make payments and find payment locations, schedule alerts and reminders, receive push notifications and stay connected via facebook and twitter. Nearly everything you can do from our "NAEC Member Account Portal" can now be handled instantly whether you're at home, at work, or on the go.
NEXT IQ
Manage your Smart Home Wi-Fi network with this application. It offers features like parental controls, network security, and guest network setup for subscribers.
- Smart Home Wi-Fi Network Management
- Parental Controls
- Network Security
- Guest Wi-Fi Network Setup
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NEXT IQ is a mobile application that allows subscribers to manage their Smart Home Wi-Fi Network. This app features parental controls, network security, setting up guest Wi-Fi networks, and much more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: NEXT IQ at 100% against NAEC Mobile's 11%. NEXT IQ also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.5). NAEC Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 5) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
NEXT IQ holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NAEC Mobile has 25 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of NAEC Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of NEXT IQ's.
NAEC Mobile ships an update every 5 months, NEXT IQ every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NAEC Mobile | NEXT IQ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (25 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 178 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | North Arkansas Electric Cooperative Inc | NEXT, Powered by NAEC |
Customer experience
NAEC Mobile
NEXT IQ
In-app purchases
NAEC Mobile
No in-app purchases
NEXT IQ
No in-app purchases
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