MySCE vs Smart Alec @ Your Library
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MySCE
Manage your electricity service with ease. View bills, track energy usage, report outages, and make payments. The app offers a simplified design for quick access to account information and payment arrangements.
- View and pay bills
- Track energy usage
- Report power outages
- Check outage status
- Create payment arrangements
- Fingerprint/Face login
- Set usage alerts
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Experience the convenience of managing your power with just a tap of our app. The MySCE app makes it easy to manage your SCE residential and business accounts - view your projected next bill amount and energy usage, download and pay your bill, make a payment arrangement, report an outage, check outage status by address, and more. Note: This app supports SCE residential and business customers with up to 10 service addresses. A new, simplified design makes it even easier to use app features: BILLING AND PAYMENT - View your current bill and make a payment - Access a link to pay with a credit card or digital payments - Add a payment method or manage your saved payment methods - View, download, or print a PDF bill - Create and view a payment arrangement ENERGY USE INFORMATION - View your projected monthly bill amount and usage - Track your current, daily, time of use (TOU), and past energy use - View your historical energy cost and usage - Create monthly usage limit or bill amount targets and receive alerts OUTAGE INFORMATION - Report a power outage for your home, business, or streetlight - Search for an outage and check the restoration progress - View public safety power outages and SCE customer resources ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT - Fingerprint and Face login to access information quickly - Register for account access - Update your account profile – email address and phone number
Smart Alec @ Your Library
Access library services remotely from your smartphone or tablet. Print documents, reserve PCs, and pay fees without waiting in line. Streamline your library visits with convenient mobile access.
- Print emails, maps, and notes
- Sign up for library PCs
- Pay library charges
- Remote library service access
- Mobile printing
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Smart Alec enables convenient services from smart phones and tablets for participating libraries. Why wait in line when you can use Smart Alec to print email, maps, notes, graphics, etc. at the library; sign up to use a library-PC; or pay library charges whenever you like.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MySCE at monthly against Smart Alec @ Your Library's every 15 months. MySCE also leads on ratings volume (1.4K vs 52). Smart Alec @ Your Library's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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.
MySCE holds the better App Store score, 1.9 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MySCE has 1.4K ratings behind it against 52, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of MySCE's written reviews are positive against 7% of Smart Alec @ Your Library's.
MySCE ships an update monthly, Smart Alec @ Your Library every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MySCE | Smart Alec @ Your Library |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (1.4K ratings) — better | 1.7 (52 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 10.2% of reviews — better | 7.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 52 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 172 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Southern California Edison | Comprise Technologies, Inc. |
Customer experience
MySCE
Smart Alec @ Your Library
Bugs and requests
MySCE
Reported bugs
5 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with latest iOS
- App crashes after update
- App won't open or load profile
- Biometrics no longer work
Requested features
4 requests- Bring back daily/hourly usage tracking
- Add ability to see projected bill amount
- Implement Face ID login
- Provide hourly usage data
Smart Alec @ Your Library
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MySCE
No in-app purchases
Smart Alec @ Your Library
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is MySCE free?
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