Overkill Solar vs AIMS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Overkill Solar
This app connects to a solar battery management system to provide detailed monitoring and control. Users can track cell voltage, capacity, current, and manage charging/discharging ports. It also offers advanced configuration options for calibration, balancing, and protection settings.
- Monitor cell voltage and capacity
- Control charging and discharging ports
- Calibrate voltage and current
- Configure balancer and protection values
- Log voltage, current, and power
- Monitor BMS alarms and temperature
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Overkill Solar iOS App allows users to connect with the Overkill Solar Battery Management System (BMS). It can monitor voltage of the cells, total capacity, charging and discharging current, and switch the charging and discharging ports on or off. Features: - change bluetooth advertising name - unlock hardware protected BMS - save or load BMS configurations - calibrate cells voltage and charging or discharging current - log maximum or minimum voltage, current and power - enable and configure the balancer - modify the capacity settings - monitor temperature - monitor BMS alarms - import and export .fig files - set level 2 and 3 advanced protection values
AIMS
Monitor your AIMS Power inverter charger, solar charge controller, and lithium batteries. View real-time voltage, current, and amperage data for all your AIMS Power products in a single, user-friendly interface.
- Monitor inverter chargers
- Monitor solar charge controllers
- Monitor lithium batteries
- View voltage, current, amps
- All products in one app
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The Power Monitoring App from AIMS Power allows users to monitor their AIMS Power inverter charger, solar charge controller and 24/48V lithium batteries. View voltage, current, amps and much more. This app is user friendly and provides info for all products in one APP.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Overkill Solar at every 4 months against AIMS's every 16 months. Overkill Solar also leads on ratings volume (21 vs 1). AIMS's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 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.
AIMS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Overkill Solar has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Overkill Solar ships an update every 4 months, AIMS every 16 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Overkill Solar | AIMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Overkill Solar LLC | AIMSBAT |
In-app purchases
Overkill Solar
No in-app purchases
AIMS
No in-app purchases
