Comparison

Hydro One Mobile vs My TELUS

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

My TELUS

Manage your TELUS services, including bills, data, and TV packages, from your mobile device. Securely log in, pay bills, monitor usage, and access customer support 24/7.

Highlights
  • View and pay bills
  • Enable data limit notifications
  • Manage services
  • Facial/fingerprint login
  • 24/7 chatbot support
  • Monitor data usage
  • Manage TV channels
Features
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With the My TELUS app, view and pay your bills easily and securely, enable data limit notifications and manage your services anytime, anywhere - so that you can get back to what’s important to you. Even better, enjoy the convenience of securely logging in using facial or fingerprint recognition. Have a question? Feel supported with TELUS Assist chatbot 24/7 to answer your questions, even while you’re on the go. Easily access your account to: Pay by credit card (Visa, Mastercard), through your bank or set up pre-authorized payments Check account balances Update your profile Learn about special offers and rewards Mobility customers can: Monitor monthly data, text and voice usage with Siri Shortcuts Download and view past bills Set data limits and turn overage protection on or off Customize add-ons, such as Easy Roam, international texting, data top-ups or Fast Pass Home Services customers can: Upgrade internet plan Monitor data usage Easily manage Pik TV and Optik TV channels, theme packs and premium selections Manage Wi-Fi Enjoying My TELUS? Please take a few minutes to rate us and tell us what you think. Please note: My TELUS requires iOS 13.0 or later. Select small business accounts are supported, but Corporate and Enterprise accounts are not yet eligible. My TELUS is optimized for iPhone.

Screenshots

Hydro One Mobile4 screens
My TELUS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: My TELUS at 4.2 against Hydro One Mobile's 3.0. My TELUS also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (372 vs 4). Hydro One Mobile's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

My TELUS holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My TELUS has 372 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 18% of My TELUS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hydro One Mobile ships an update every 7 months, My TELUS every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Hydro One Mobile versus My TELUS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHydro One MobileMy TELUS
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (4 ratings)4.2 (372 ratings) — better
Positive reviews11.3% of reviews17.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4372 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB274 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHydro One IncorporatedTELUS Communications Inc.

Customer experience

Hydro One Mobile

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive11.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative83.1%

My TELUS

All ratings366 ratings
Positive80.6%
Neutral3.3%
Negative16.1%
Written reviews843 reviews
Positive17.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative78.1%

User reviews

Hydro One Mobile

From 4 App Store ratings

What 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

My TELUS

From 372 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Good mgmt app
  • 👍 Nice technician
  • 👍 Telus service

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Never loads properly
  • 🐛 Advertising in notifications
  • 🐛 Glitchy app
  • 🐛 Strange app behavior
  • 🐛 Can't log in

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
Show 16 more
  • 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
Show 10 more
  • 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

My TELUS

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login issues
  • Billing information not loading
  • Optik TV features not working
  • Inconsistent language and location settings

Requested features

3 requests
  • Dark Mode
  • Improve TV management
  • Better data usage tracking

In-app purchases

None

Hydro One Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

My TELUS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hydro One Mobile free?
Hydro One Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My TELUS free?
My TELUS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hydro One Mobile or My TELUS?
My TELUS is rated higher. Hydro One Mobile averages 3.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while My TELUS averages 4.2 from 372 ratings.
Do Hydro One Mobile or My TELUS have ads?
Neither Hydro One Mobile nor My TELUS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hydro One Mobile or My TELUS?
Hydro One Mobile ships an update every 7 months, and My TELUS every 2 weeks. Most recently, Hydro One Mobile was updated on October 24, 2026 and My TELUS on November 1, 2026.

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