BE vs Genea Submeter Billing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BE
Manage property maintenance, work orders, inspections, and incidents directly from your mobile device. Attach photos and access all your data, even when offline.
- Work order management
- Preventive maintenance
- Inspections
- Incident tracking
- Photo attachments
- Offline access
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BE Mobile provides key property management features in the palm of your hand! Manage work orders, preventive maintenance tasks, inspections, incidents and much more. Attach photos to any record and view associated files on your iPhone. Work offline with access to all of your data.
Genea Submeter Billing
This app streamlines tenant billing for supplemental equipment by automating meter readings and invoice generation. It provides a detailed audit trail and customizable reports for accounting software, saving property teams time.
- Automated meter reading
- Tenant invoice generation
- Audit trail of calculations
- Customizable billing reports
- PDF/CSV invoice export
- Reduces manual processing time
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Genea Submeter Billing (AMRB) Mobile App Free for ALL Genea customers. Genea Submeter Billing (AMRB) provides these benefits to property teams: • Professionalizes and streamlines the process of billing tenants for supplemental equipment • Ensures recoupment of energy cost of supplemental meters • Detailed audit trail of calculations and meter values enhances transparency of invoices for tenants •. Provides customized billing information to import into accounting software • Monthly invoices generated as PDF’s or CSV for easy delivery to tenants •. Reduces time wasted by property teams in manually processing invoices About Genea: Genea provides cloud-based software and services for the commercial real estate industry. Our Submeter Billing solution simplifies the process of collecting submeter values and billing tenants for supplemental equipment. The Genea Submeter Billing (AMRB) mobile app streamlines the collection of submeter values and automatically generates high quality tenant invoices. For submeters networked to the BAS/EMS, Genea Submeter Billing automatically reads and records submeter values every fifteen minutes, and generates tenant invoices. For standalone submeters not networked to the BAS/EMS, Genea Submeter Billing provides an innovative mobile app to enhance and simplify the process of collecting submeter values. After submeter values are uploaded from the mobile app to the Genea Submeter Platform, high quality tenant invoices are automatically generated. Genea Submeter Billing also provides tenants and property teams with an online portal to view historical invoices (including time stamp images of meter values) and track energy consumption history making the billing transparent and simple.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Genea Submeter Billing at 5.0 against BE's 2.3. BE's advantage is ratings volume (135 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Genea Submeter Billing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BE has 135 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BE | Genea Submeter Billing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (135 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 135 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Building Engines | Genea |
Customer experience
BE
Genea Submeter Billing
Bugs and requests
BE
Reported bugs
19 issues- Have to log out/in multiple times or reinstall to gain access
- Work orders don't always load
- Only able to upload one photo at a time
- Everything gets stuck pending
- App fails, all data lost
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- Update screwed up app operation
- Tech support never responds
- App won't let you log in
- App doesn't communicate with network
- Entries do not link between app and desktop
- Acknowledgement pending issues never resolved
- New update changed 'work order by Building' to 'work order by location'
- New version is slower and not user friendly
- No access to PMs for weeks
- Stuck on 'synchronization'
- Work order creation from phone never appears in system
- Timer starts when work order begins but pauses upon completion
- Comment box moves off screen when typing
- App crashes when typing comments
Requested features
6 requests- Add resource management
- Add day view and approve/deny for resource management
- Disable notifications when staff is off the clock
- Edit frequency for PMs
- Allow scheduling
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- Swipe to go back gesture
Genea Submeter Billing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BE
No in-app purchases
Genea Submeter Billing
No in-app purchases
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