Hydro One Mobile vs Celebright Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hydro One Mobile
Manage your electricity service and stay informed about power outages. View your bills, account balance, and usage details. Access a real-time outage map with estimated restoration times and affected customer numbers.
- View bills and account balance
- Sign up for paperless billing
- Sign up for SMS notifications
- View usage details
- Real-time power outage map
- Outage restoration estimates
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We work hard to ensure that Hydro One customers have access to the information they need when they need it. The NEW Hydro One mobile application makes it easy for customers to manage their Hydro One service and get the latest information about power outages in your area. NEW – Customers can now access myAccount self-service within the app! Enabling Hydro One customers to: • View their bill and account balance • Sign up for paperless billing • Sign up for SMS notifications • View ‘time of use’ usage details and more! Power Outage Map Our power outage map lets you know if there is a power outage at home or the cottage. It is updated every 10 minutes with detailed outage information, including: • Number of customers affected • Estimated restoration time • Cause of the outage (if known) • Repair crew status The Outage Maps use colour-coded symbols to display the number of customers without service and their locations. Hydro One recognizes that this is crucial information for our customers. Now you can access it on the go.
Celebright Cloud
Control your permanent holiday and accent lighting system from anywhere. Customize colors, patterns, and individual bulbs. Schedule automatic light displays for holidays or year-round use.
- Remote control from anywhere
- Customizable colors and patterns
- Individual bulb control
- Automated scheduling
- Year-round accent lighting
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This app is the controller for the Celebright lighting system, which is a cloud connected permanent holiday lighting and accent lighting system. Control your lights from anywhere in the world through this cloud connected system. Set colors, pattens and even control each individual lightbulb through this powerful and intuitive app. Set a schedule to have your lights turn on and off automatically for holidays, birthdays, or any special occasion. Set repeating events for use as pot lights or landscape lighting during the rest of the year quickly and easily.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Celebright Cloud at 4.9 against Hydro One Mobile's 3.0. Celebright Cloud also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 11%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months). Hydro One Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). 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.
Celebright Cloud holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Celebright Cloud has 735 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of Hydro One Mobile's written reviews are positive against 50% of Celebright Cloud's.
Hydro One Mobile ships an update every 7 months, Celebright Cloud every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hydro One Mobile | Celebright Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 4.9 (735 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 735 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hydro One Incorporated | Celebright Inc |
Customer experience
Hydro One Mobile
Celebright Cloud
User reviews
Hydro One Mobile
From 4 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Useful for outage updates
- 👍 Good for checking outage status
- 👍 Provides outage information quickly
- 👍 Timely outage information refresh
- 👍 Good for reporting outages
Room to improve
- 👎 App is a website redirect
- 👎 Requires login for basic info
- 👎 Slow on iPad login
- 👎 Unusable, essentially mobile website
- 👎 Broken on every step
Celebright Cloud
From 735 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Highly customizable light configurations and scenes
- 📚 Easy-to-access library with downloadable presets
- 🎨 Beautiful hardware that blends seamlessly into home
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface (for some users)
- ⚙️ Ability to build and save custom presets
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent connectivity issues and server reconnection problems
- 🐛 Regular app crashes and glitches
- 🐛 Scheduling functionality unreliable and buggy
- 😕 Poor UI/UX design and confusing navigation
- 😕 Inconsistent app behavior across updates
Bugs and requests
Hydro One Mobile
Reported bugs
21 issues- Login screen freezes
- In-app messages show 'unsupported browser'
- View bill function stopped working
- Login issues on iPad
- Blank page on login
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- Stuck spinning after login
- App keeps notifying an update is available when none exists
- Fails to get data from Hydro One
- Reporting outages gives an error
- Map shows almost no outages
- Signs out every time you try to go back to the main menu
- Consistently have trouble logging in
- Poor connectivity
- Can never log in anymore, takes forever
- Impossible to log in
- App does not login, fails registration, password change
- Extremely slow when it does work
- Loading account, nothing shows up
- Login is glitchy
- Clicking done to go back logs you out
- Auto logs the user out when clicking 'done' after viewing the current bill in PDF format
Requested features
15 requests- Invest in a proper app focused on usage and billing
- Add outage notifications
- Add a widget for power status
- Add face recognition for logging in
- Add account access and user-friendly displays
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- Add real-time updates
- Add billing support integration
- Add personal usage information
- Add outage alerts/notifications
- Add usage details
- Allow users to remain signed in
- Allow viewing usage & bills without re-entering info
- Add option to print bill
- Add face recognition or thumb print login
- Fix auto-logout when viewing PDF
Celebright Cloud
Reported bugs
12 issues- App won't open or load properly
- Password reset functionality broken
- Login authentication failures
- Schedules end or disable randomly
- Lights don't respond to preset selections
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- Connection drops when switching between presets
- App shows disconnect after preset selection requiring restart
- Cloud connection loss during multiple scheduling events
- Calendar date defaults to today instead of selected date
- App crashes when creating or editing events
- Preset buttons show as active but lights don't turn on
- Schedule toggle stays off even when enabled
Requested features
8 requests- Preview feature to see light patterns before applying to house
- Simple on/off toggle without disabling entire schedule
- Cut and paste functionality in studio mode
- Ability to work in studio without lights automatically turning on
- Custom date options for recurring events
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- Event copy feature for specific dates (e.g., team game days)
- Pantone codes or CMYK color input for exact color matching
- Apply button confirmation before changes take effect across tabs
In-app purchases
Hydro One Mobile
No in-app purchases
Celebright Cloud
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Hydro One Mobile free?
Is Celebright Cloud free?
Which has better reviews, Hydro One Mobile or Celebright Cloud?
Do Hydro One Mobile or Celebright Cloud have ads?
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