ShinePhone vs WiseSolar Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShinePhone
This app provides a comprehensive platform for end-users to manage their green energy systems. It offers real-time energy monitoring, device management, and AI-powered smart control to optimize power usage and energy earnings.
- Real-time energy monitoring
- Device management
- AI smart control
- Dynamic electricity prices
- Optimized charging/discharging strategies
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ShinePhone is an energy monitoring platform exclusively built for end users, serving as your one-stop smart hub for managing green energy systems. Energy Monitoring: Real-time tracking of power generation, consumption and energy storage status, with clear visibility of battery level, device operation, load power and grid interaction. Device Management: Support one-click device access and multi-device monitoring, with versatile and personalized energy management plan settings available. AI Smart Control: Access dynamic electricity prices across multiple platforms. AI-powered intelligent analysis optimizes charging and discharging strategies for more rational power usage and improved overall energy earnings.
WiseSolar Plus
This app facilitates data communication with photovoltaic inverters in a WiFi environment. It categorizes PV inverter data through monitoring, alarm, history, and setting modules, catering to manufacturers, users, and operation/maintenance roles.
- PV inverter data communication
- WiFi environment connectivity
- User role management
- Monitoring module
- Alarm module
- History module
- Setting module
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The app is mainly connected to photovoltaic inverter for data communication in WiFi environment. Therefore, only password is available during login. Considering the reasons of the equipment, see the attached screen recording document for the detailed structure of the app. 1. User roles are mainly divided into manufacturers, users and operation and maintenance 2. App mainly classifies the data communication of PV inverter through four modules of "monitoring", "alarm", "history" and "setting" 3. The communication environment is the established photovoltaic inverter
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WiseSolar Plus at 5.0 against ShinePhone's 2.4. WiseSolar Plus also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 18%). ShinePhone's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (167 vs 2). 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.
WiseSolar Plus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShinePhone has 167 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of ShinePhone's written reviews are positive against 33% of WiseSolar Plus's.
ShinePhone ships an update weekly, WiseSolar Plus every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShinePhone | WiseSolar Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (167 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.0% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 167 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 190 MB | 288 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Growatt New Energy Technology Co.,Ltd | Kehua Data Co.,Ltd. |
Customer experience
ShinePhone
WiseSolar Plus
Bugs and requests
ShinePhone
Reported bugs
5 issues- App freezes when changing dates
- Incorrect power consumption data
- Datalogger connection problems
- Inconsistent color coding in graphs
- App loses data after updates
Requested features
5 requests- Add dark mode option
- Improve graph readability
- Allow more customization of settings
- Provide real-time data updates
- Integrate with home automation systems
WiseSolar Plus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ShinePhone
No in-app purchases
WiseSolar Plus
No in-app purchases
