ShinePhone vs Deye Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShinePhone
Monitor your green energy systems with real-time tracking of power generation, consumption, and storage. Manage devices, access dynamic electricity prices, and utilize AI-powered optimization for smarter energy usage and increased earnings.
- Real-time energy generation tracking
- Power consumption monitoring
- Energy storage status visibility
- One-click device access
- AI-powered energy optimization
- Dynamic electricity price access
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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.
Deye Cloud
This app facilitates the establishment, monitoring, and maintenance of new energy power stations. It offers transparent management through a big data platform, supporting various power station and equipment types for efficient operation and troubleshooting.
- Power station establishment
- Real-time data monitoring
- Operation and maintenance services
- After-sales support
- Transparent power station management
- Accurate alarm positioning
- Intelligent data analysis
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"Supporting the establishment, data acquisition, data monitoring, one-stop operation maintenance and after-sales service of all new energy power stations. Through the Deye Cloud big data platform, all types of power stations with transparent management which improves the value of power stations comprehensively. 【Rich Types of Power Stations】 Power stations can be built everywhere. Deye Cloud big data will help you to build your own photovoltaic power station in the shortest time. 【Rich Equipment Types】 breaking the traditional limitation, it can comprehensively monitor the operation of the system composed of photovoltaic, battery, fan, power grid, micro inverter, diesel generator, load, ups and smartload 【Rich Functions and Applications】 accurate alarm positioning and efficient troubleshooting；Intelligent data analysis reduces troubleshooting time；The energy flow map can grasp the direction of energy quickly; Multiple working modes to realize diversified power station management. 【Cooperate with the Merchant Version】 With power station authorization function, you can authorize the power station you created to the merchant and working together to ensure the safety and stability of the power station. Meanwhile, you can also recieve the power station from merchant which saves the operation of power station build and equipment configuration. "
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Deye Cloud at 69% against ShinePhone's 18%. Deye Cloud also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.4). ShinePhone's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Deye Cloud holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 171 and 284 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of ShinePhone's written reviews are positive against 69% of Deye Cloud's.
ShinePhone ships an update every 8 days, Deye Cloud every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShinePhone | Deye Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (171 ratings) | 4.8 (284 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.0% of reviews | 69.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 171 | 284 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 191 MB | 221 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Growatt New Energy Technology Co.,Ltd | 萃绩科技(上海)有限公司 |
Customer experience
ShinePhone
Deye Cloud
User reviews
ShinePhone
From 171 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Provides useful data
- 📊 Helpful graphs and charts
- 🔋 Monitors battery and solar system
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent bugs and crashes
- 🕰️ Slow updates and data lags
- 🤯 Confusing and unintuitive UI
- 🔒 Connectivity and login issues
- 🔋 High battery drain on mobile
Deye Cloud
From 284 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Very good tool for monitoring
- 👍 Best Hybrid solar inverter
- 👍 Very high quality
- 👍 Nice beautiful service
- 👍 Extremely good
Room to improve
- 🐛 Data from inverter isn’t live
- 🐛 Latency issues
- 🐛 User friendly configuration needed
- 🐛 Copilot prioritizes earning over backup
- 🐛 Push notifications not working
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
Deye Cloud
Reported bugs
21 issues- Data from inverter isn’t live
- Push notifications not working
- No push notifications alerts
- Copilot ended up costing us £150 extra every month
- App isn’t working on IOS
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- Data is not realtime
- App does not display true total capacity
- Disconnected from the grid it sends me push notifications every minute
- Internal feedback form doesn’t work
- Localization to Ukrainian language is poor
- Data polling time is really high at 5-6 mins
- Inexplicably long periods of no data logging/indication if being offline
- Always offline from 0600hrs to 1900 hrs
- Can’t log in for the past 2 weeks!
- Account does not exist, email does not exist!
- App is logging me out and i cant sign in for few days already!
- If i try to recover password, says email does no exist!
- Region switching is gone
- Unable to log-in, login info has changed
- APP not receiving data after last update
- Network unavailable
Requested features
8 requests- Add total yield
- Suggest a third option: Force Sell Mode
- Still see load usage when selling first
- Build more servers around the world
- Dedicated app server centre in Australia
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- Add Ukrainian language
- Include data from an EV charger
- Settings to control where power goes first
In-app purchases
ShinePhone
No in-app purchases
Deye Cloud
No in-app purchases
