MultiBMS vs Quiet Meter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MultiBMS
Monitor multiple Bluetooth-enabled battery management systems from your iPhone. View detailed pack voltage, cell voltages, current, power, state of charge, and temperature. Build custom battery groups and visualize charging activity.
- Connect to multiple BMS devices
- Detailed pack and cell diagnostics
- Build custom parallel/series battery groups
- Visualize charging and discharging
- Apple Watch companion preview
- Supports JiKong and JBD/Xiaoxiang hardware
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Most battery apps show you one pack. MultiBMS shows you the whole system. Connect every Bluetooth BMS you own, group them the way they're actually wired, and watch the entire bank behave as one — voltage, current, power, state of charge, temperature, capacity and every individual cell, live. SEE THE WHOLE BANK AT ONCE Build a group from any number of packs and MultiBMS aggregates it properly — parallel banks sum their current and capacity, series strings sum their voltage. One gauge for the bank, and every pack underneath it. Six batteries in an off-grid build read as one system instead of six apps you keep switching between. EVERY CELL, FOUR WAYS Bars, heat map, rows or grid. Minimum, maximum and delta across the whole bank or per pack, with the weak cell called out before it becomes a problem. Watch the balancer work in real time. RECORD WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED Start a recording and MultiBMS logs the run at one-second resolution. Pick a Battery Bank preset for a house system or a Vehicle preset for a ride, choose exactly which metrics to capture, and add per-cell and per-pack detail when you want the full picture. A live dyno cockpit shows the run as it happens — speed, volts, amps, kilowatts, state of charge, G-force — with peak draw, peak power and energy pulled tracked as you go. REPLAY IT LIKE FOOTAGE Cinema Replay plays any recorded run back as a scrubbing timeline with every channel drawn together. Find the moment the voltage sagged, the moment the pack got hot, the moment you hit peak power. Then export it: CSV for a spreadsheet, a formatted PDF report, or a share card that fits in a message. ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app is a full second screen, not a notification relay. A live dyno cockpit that mirrors the run on your phone. Race Control with lap timing and per-lap energy. Ride profiles for e-bikes, karts and carts with GPS speed, distance and G-force. Fleet and cell views for the whole bank. Start and stop a recording from your wrist and the phone follows. ALERTS THAT MATTER Set your own limits for pack temperature, low pack voltage and low cell voltage. MultiBMS tells you the moment something crosses the line, whether you're looking at the app or not. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOUR RIG Thirteen interface skins, from an off-grid instrument bay to a racing cluster, marine, aviation, industrial and a retro terminal. Four dyno themes for the recorder. Four charge-flow animations — rail, orbit, mist and plasma — so charging and discharging read at a glance from across the room. WORKS WITH YOUR HARDWARE MultiBMS speaks 30 Bluetooth Low Energy BMS protocols covering drop-in lithium packs, server-rack storage, active balancers, shunt meters and portable power stations. Support varies by model and firmware — the full, current compatibility list lives at multibms.com. Not sure yours is covered? Email support@multibms.com with your battery and BMS model. We add protocols, and we're quick about it. READ-ONLY BY DESIGN MultiBMS reads telemetry. It does not write settings, change limits or reconfigure your BMS. Your battery keeps doing exactly what it was doing. NO ACCOUNT, NO SUBSCRIPTION No sign-up, no cloud, no recurring charge. Your data stays on your device. Premium skins are optional one-time purchases.
Quiet Meter
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Quiet Meter shows you how loud it is. You buy it once, for $4.99, and that is the end of the transaction. There is no subscription, no account and no analytics. The app is free to use, with an occasional full-screen ad that never appears while the meter is running, and one $4.99 payment removes the ads for good. HONEST ABOUT ACCURACY An iPhone microphone is designed for speech, not measurement. It applies automatic gain, compresses very loud sounds and rolls off deep bass. Quiet Meter converts the microphone level into an estimated dB SPL. It is an estimate, not a measurement. Nothing in this app is suitable for an official, workplace or legal purpose, and it makes no claims about hearing or health. CALIBRATION THAT STICKS A common complaint about decibel apps is that they read 28 dB in a silent room. Quiet Meter lets you fix that: set a calibration offset from -20 to +20 dB against a meter you trust, in half-decibel steps, and it stays set. The whole session (minimum, average and maximum) is corrected together. WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE, FOREVER • A live reading in large numerals you can read across a room • Minimum, average and maximum for the session • A rolling 45-second chart, colored by level • The full calibration screen, with a live reading to calibrate against • A reference table: library 40 dB, conversation 60, traffic 80, concert 110 • Your three most recent saved sessions, with notes and plain-text sharing • Dark mode, large tap targets, and full VoiceOver labeling QUIET METER PRO, $4.99 ONCE • No ads, permanently • Your complete session history, however many you save • Sessions you saved before buying reappear. Nothing was ever deleted • Share a session with the full reading-by-reading data, for a spreadsheet The microphone is requested only when you tap Start, and only ever used to read the level as the sound arrives. No audio is recorded for playback, saved, or sent anywhere. ABOUT THE ADS The free app shows a full-screen ad from Google AdMob at natural moments only: after you save a measurement, or after you share one. Never while the meter is running, never while the microphone is on, and never in your first sessions. The ads are non-personalized. Quiet Meter does not ask to track you and never sends your measurements, notes or audio anywhere. WHAT QUIET METER DOES NOT DO No analytics. No tracking. No account. No cloud sync. No subscription. No health advice. It will ask you to rate it once, after your fifth saved session, and never again. Your sessions live only on this iPhone, so deleting the app deletes them. Share one as text first if you want to keep a copy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Quiet Meter at Free against MultiBMS's $0.99. MultiBMS's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#177 vs unranked). On in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Quiet Meter is free to download; MultiBMS costs $0.99 up front. MultiBMS sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Quiet Meter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | MultiBMS | Quiet Meter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #177 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SJP Custom Solutions LLC | Ian Lehrer |
In-app purchases
MultiBMS
- E-Bike Rally$0.99
- Bus Life$0.99
- Off Grid$0.99
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- Minimal White$0.99
- Retro Terminal$0.99
- Marine$0.99
- Arctic Ice$0.99
- Matrix Code$0.99
- Emergency$0.99
- CAT Equipment$0.99
- Aviation$0.99
Quiet Meter
- Quiet Meter Pro$4.99









