Comparison

Hydro One Mobile vs FolderSure

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

FolderSure

Features
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A finished progress bar tells you the copy ended. It doesn't tell you the copy is correct. FolderSure checks your backup against the original, file by file, byte by byte, using streaming SHA-256 right on your iPad or iPhone. Plug in the card and the SSD, pick the two folders, and know for certain that every photo and every clip made it across intact. One damaged RAW file in 400 GB is invisible until the day you need it. FolderSure finds it and tells you its name. What it does: Verify. Compares source and destination with real checksums. Missing, changed and unreadable files are listed by name, not hidden in a summary. Verified Copy. FolderSure copies the files itself, then reads every byte back from the destination before calling a file done. The safest way to offload a card. Guarded Erase. After a fully verified pass you can delete the verified files from the card. You have to type ERASE, confirm, and the app re-checks every file at the moment of deletion. If anything changed since the pass, it refuses. It never touches files it didn't verify. Re-Verify. Months later, check a drive against a saved manifest and catch bit rot before it costs you a shoot. Resume. Cable pulled or app closed mid-scan? Continue where it stopped. An interrupted job is never reported as verified. Proof you can keep. Export a PDF receipt, CSV manifest, JSON, or a .sha256 checksum file your Mac verifies with a single shasum command. The fine print, in plain words: one-time purchase, no subscription, no account, no ads. Everything runs on your device and the app makes zero network requests. Works with SD cards, USB-C SSDs, USB sticks and any folder the Files app can open. Choose SHA-256 or the faster xxHash64. FolderSure never modifies your source. Verification only reads. The only thing that can delete files is the erase step you unlock yourself after a verified pass. App Review notes (reviewer field): FolderSure needs no account, login or network connection. Everything runs on-device. To test without an external drive: in the Files app, create two folders under On My iPad, put a few files in the first and copy them into the second. In FolderSure pick them as Source and Destination and tap Verify Copy. To see failure detection, edit or delete one file in the destination folder and verify again. The erase feature only appears after a 100% verified pass and requires typing ERASE plus a confirmation dialog. It deletes only the verified files in the user-chosen source folder. The app makes zero network requests. No analytics, no tracking.

Screenshots

Hydro One Mobile4 screens
FolderSure4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Hydro One Mobile at Free against FolderSure's $4.99. Hydro One Mobile also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On 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

Hydro One Mobile is free to download; FolderSure costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Hydro One Mobile versus FolderSure: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHydro One MobileFolderSure
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating3.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews11.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHydro One IncorporatedKarolis Valatka

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

FolderSure

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Hydro One Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

FolderSure

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hydro One Mobile free?
Hydro One Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FolderSure free?
FolderSure costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hydro One Mobile or FolderSure have ads?
Neither Hydro One Mobile nor FolderSure shows ads.

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