ERCOT vs HAR.com Texas Rentals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ERCOT
Monitor real-time power grid conditions and receive important news and alerts. Customize your home screen with interactive dashboards for supply, demand, fuel mix, and wholesale prices. Stay informed about grid status and upcoming meetings.
- Real-time grid monitoring
- Customizable home screen
- Interactive dashboards
- Supply and demand tracking
- Fuel mix information
- Wholesale price data
- News and alerts
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The ERCOT app allows you to monitor real-time power grid conditions and stay updated with important news and alerts from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). App features include: Informative welcome screens A customizable home screen: Choose which dashboards you want to see ERCOT’s most popular interactive dashboards: Grid Conditions, Supply and Demand, Fuel Mix, and System-Wide (Wholesale) Prices The meeting calendar for the upcoming week The ability to opt-in for TXANS and EEA alerts
HAR.com Texas Rentals
Find apartments and homes for rent across Texas with this comprehensive search tool. Compare different property types side-by-side, access detailed pricing, amenities, photos, and floor plans. Powered by an award-winning search engine for informed housing decisions.
- Compare apartments with homes/condos
- Detailed pricing and amenities
- High-quality photos and floor plans
- Advanced search filters
- Property ratings and neighborhood data
- Interactive mapping with Street View
- Bookmark and share listings
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The Texas Rentals app is a unique apartment search designed for consumers to find the perfect place to live (apartment or home for rent) across the state of Texas. It is the only rental property search app that provides a way for you to compare apartments with homes/condos for rent within the same area. The app has the most accurate apartment information, the most comprehensive data (detail pricing and amenities), and rich content, such as photos, optimized floor plans & more. The Texas Rentals app is powered by the award-winning HAR.com property search engine to allow you to make better housing decisions. Features • Free apartment search, every apartment listed and no registration required. • Thousands of apartments available for rent in Texas. • Power search criteria by what's important to you, including pets, proximity, price, square footage, and more. • View property rating, school and neighborhood data, amenities, and more. • Slide through an immersive photo gallery for each listing. • Enhanced mapping with Street View. • Bookmark your favorite listings and easily share them with friends and family! If you have any comments or suggestions for improving the Texas Rentals mobile app, please email us at support@har.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HAR.com Texas Rentals at 4.8 against ERCOT's 2.8. HAR.com Texas Rentals also leads on ratings volume (1.6K vs 115). ERCOT's advantage is review sentiment (39% vs 21%) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 12 months). 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.
HAR.com Texas Rentals holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HAR.com Texas Rentals has 1.6K ratings behind it against 115, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 39% of ERCOT's written reviews are positive against 21% of HAR.com Texas Rentals's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ERCOT ships an update every 4 months, HAR.com Texas Rentals every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ERCOT | HAR.com Texas Rentals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (115 ratings) | 4.8 (1.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.0% of reviews — better | 21.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 115 | 1.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ERCOT | Houston Association of Realtors® |
Customer experience
ERCOT
HAR.com Texas Rentals
User reviews
ERCOT
From 115 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Real-time fuel mix data
- 👍 Great new update design
- 👍 Dark mode add-on
- 👍 Visualizes data well
- 👍 Simple and works great
Room to improve
- 🐛 Welcome screen confusing
- 🐛 App crashes constantly
- 🐛 App spins indefinitely
- 🐛 Significant downgrade from old app
- 🐛 White ghost text
HAR.com Texas Rentals
From 1.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🌟 Finding home easy
- 👍 The best application I ever use
Room to improve
- 🐛 This app is terrible can't look up by location it needs to be updated
- 🐛 This app is adequate if you're also utilizing HAR online as it allows you to access homes you've saved, but I've never been able to put in an address or zip code to search for homes using the app which makes it unhelpful as an app
- 🐛 This app is useless!!!
- 🐛 Right off the bat, The first question says, enter city, state or zip code.. I put in a city.. nothing happens, I put in Texas, nothing happens.. I put in a zip code and yet not able to search. After reading a few comments, I'm not surprised this app was created years ago, but neglected and no update.. I don't know if this is important enough for the developers to take notice, but I'll be using Redfin to find a house to rent since interest rates are stupid high in 2023.. thanks Biden
- 🐛 The app is overall simple, which is a good thing! It gets to the point without adding complicated menus. My problem however is that it does overheat the phone quite a bit, along with not being able to share property listings. I get the error stating that I can only share the property listing if I'm on WiFi or Cellular Data to use this HAR app. This is an app bug, because I am connected to WiFi, I've also tried using cellular data and I still get the same error
Bugs and requests
ERCOT
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes constantly or spins indefinitely
- White ghost text on app and browser
- New Release 7.3.6 throws constant 403 errors
- App crashes upon launch
- App opens and crashes after updates
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- App crashes after last update, won't open
- App just closes down after update
- Inaccurate graphs during Feb 2021 outage
- Privacy issue: app pastes from messages
- Lost current demand number in new release
- Chart with no numbers on vertical axis
- Turrible system conditions display
Requested features
25 requests- Improve welcome screen navigation
- Add custom alert notifications (prices, capacity)
- Increase font size or allow adjustment
- Provide history view
- Show sources of energy
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- Show renewable energy generation
- See historical data for comparison
- Add gridlines on chart axes
- Add more gridlines on time axis
- Provide current demand number
- Show real-time power production breakdown (nuclear, gas, coal, wind, solar)
- Show trends of historical data
- Show prices for 5min intervals
- Show forecasted wind and actual wind output on a chart
- Show nodal pricing points
- Add a simple DB query function for source/sink of PTPs
- List scheduled outages and line work
- List DA congestion costs
- Provide system conditions
- Offer historic views beyond 1 day
- Offer forecast conditions for next 30 days
- Provide at least two push notification options (critical alert)
- Share outage data from utility companies/cooperatives
- Add system wide alerts
- Add a design overhaul for prettier delivery
HAR.com Texas Rentals
Reported bugs
4 issues- Unable to look up homes by location
- Unable to share property listings
- Login issues
- Filter menu not working
Requested features
1 request- Ability to search for homes by location
In-app purchases
ERCOT
No in-app purchases
HAR.com Texas Rentals
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is ERCOT free?
Is HAR.com Texas Rentals free?
Which has better reviews, ERCOT or HAR.com Texas Rentals?
Do ERCOT or HAR.com Texas Rentals have ads?
Which is updated more often, ERCOT or HAR.com Texas Rentals?
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