WattPulse Pro vs TV Remote for Google & Android
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WattPulse Pro
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WattPulse brings your home's energy to life. Connect your Home Assistant instance and watch solar production, grid usage, battery status, and total consumption flow together in one beautiful overlay chart. REAL-TIME ENERGY MONITORING • Live solar, grid, battery, and consumption metrics • Animated energy flow diagram shows power moving through your home • Instant updates via Home Assistant WebSocket • Offline cache keeps data visible even when HA is unreachable MULTI-SOURCE OVERLAY CHART • See solar, grid, battery, and consumption on a single chart • Switch between Today, Week, Month, and Year views • Smooth Swift Charts visualization with interactive legends • Compare historical patterns across 2 years of data AI-POWERED SUGGESTIONS • On-device suggestions to optimize energy usage • Solar excess alerts — run appliances when production peaks • Low-price alerts — shift load to off-peak hours • Battery optimization tips for maximum self-consumption • All suggestions generated locally — no cloud, no tracking ANOMALY DETECTION • WattPulse learns your typical usage patterns • Get alerts when consumption spikes above normal • Mark events as "normal" to improve detection accuracy • History log of all detected anomalies COST & SAVINGS TRACKING • Three rate plan types: Flat, Time-of-Use, Real-Time Pricing • Automatic cost calculations based on your actual rates • Feed-in tariff support for solar export credits • See daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly savings at a glance CO₂ CARBON OFFSET • Track your solar contribution to reducing emissions • 0.417 kg/kWh emission factor (configurable) • See your carbon offset in real time • Monthly and yearly CO₂ summaries HOME ASSISTANT INTEGRATION • Direct WebSocket connection — no cloud middleman • Auto-discovery of solar, grid, battery, and consumption sensors • Support for multiple HA instances (home, office, vacation home) • Secure token storage in iOS Keychain • Works with Home Assistant 2023.x and later DATA EXPORT & PRIVACY • Export energy data as CSV for any time range • All data stored locally on your device • No analytics, no tracking, no cloud sync • Your energy data never leaves your phone CUSTOMIZATION • Choose between System, Light, and Dark appearance • Configure notification preferences (anomaly, low-price, suggestions) • Set up multiple HA instances and switch between them • Customize rate plans to match your utility bill WattPulse is a one-time purchase. No subscriptions, no ads, no in-app purchases. Buy once, use forever. REQUIREMENTS • iOS 17.0 or later • iPhone or iPad • Home Assistant 2023.x or later • Home Assistant Long-Lived Access Token WattPulse is not affiliated with Home Assistant. Home Assistant is a trademark of its respective owners.
TV Remote for Google & Android
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a remote for your Google TV television or streaming box. It works over your Wi-Fi network rather than infrared, so you never have to point it at anything, and it keeps working from the other side of the room. WHAT YOU GET • A full directional pad, with a large centre key that is easy to hit without looking • Volume, channel, mute, back, home and power • Play, pause, rewind and fast forward • Your phone's keyboard, instead of hunting letters one at a time with arrow keys • Voice search — speak it rather than type it • One-tap shortcuts to Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video and Disney+ • Rename your televisions to whatever you actually call them TYPING, FINALLY Searching on a television means walking a cursor around an on-screen keyboard one letter at a time. When your set asks for text, this app opens your phone's keyboard and the words appear on the television as you type. Dictate instead if you would rather. ONLY THE BUTTONS THAT WORK The app asks your television what it can do and draws only that. You will not find a button here that quietly does nothing. PAIRING, ONCE Your television shows a six-character code and you type it in. That happens once, and is remembered. WHICH DEVICES Google TV devices — most televisions from Sony, Philips, TCL and Hisense, plus NVIDIA SHIELD and Chromecast with Google TV. Your television and your iPhone have to be on the same Wi-Fi network. On a small number of sets the manufacturer ships with the remote service switched off. If yours is not found, that is usually why, and it is not something an app can change. PRIVACY The app asks for permission to find devices on your local network. That is how it finds your television, and the only thing it is used for. Commands go straight from your device to your television over your own network — nothing is sent to us, because there is no server to send it to. FREE, WITH ADVERTS The app is free and paid for by advertising. Adverts never sit next to the controls and never interrupt you mid-press. In Europe and the UK you are asked before any advert is requested, and you can change your answer at any time in Settings. If you would rather not see them, Settings can turn the adverts off: monthly, every three months, yearly, or once and for good. That is all it does — every button and every feature is in the free version and stays there. A subscription is charged to your Apple ID and renews until cancelled, which you can do any time in your Apple ID settings. The one-off does not renew. Google TV and Chromecast are trademarks of Google LLC. This app is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google. Netflix, YouTube and other services are named only to identify the applications this remote can open on your television. — Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tonuidavies.github.io/atv-remote-legal/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: WattPulse Pro at none against TV Remote for Google & Android's shown. TV Remote for Google & Android's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.
| Parameter | WattPulse Pro | TV Remote for Google & Android |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 贺 周 | Ann ANN WAMBUI NJUGUNA |
In-app purchases
WattPulse Pro
No in-app purchases
TV Remote for Google & Android
No in-app purchases
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