Bins vs Hydro Ottawa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bins
This app helps Ottawa residents manage their garbage and recycling schedules. It provides easy access to pickup dates for your neighborhood and official recycling rules directly from the city's website.
- Garbage and recycling pickup schedule
- Neighborhood-specific collection dates
- Official recycling rules
- Search by address or current location
- Clean and elegant interface
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The simplest way to keep up with Ottawa's garbage and recycling schedule. With Bins, Ottawa residents can see what will be picked up on the next garbage day in their neighbourhood and can have quick access to the official rules. FEATURES • A clean and elegant interface for seeing the schedule for your neighbourhood • A straightforward setup process—just search for your address or use your current location • Quick access to garbage and recycling rules—tap on a bin to see the official instructions from the City of Ottawa website Bins is only supported in Ottawa.
Hydro Ottawa
Manage your electricity account 24/7 with this utility app. Access services like outage reporting, account management, and important notifications. Designed for both residential and commercial customers, it offers tools to stay informed and in control of your power services.
- 24/7 account management
- Report power outages
- Account opening/closing
- Alerts and notifications
- Service updates
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Hydro Ottawa’s app provides you with 24/7 access to manage your account online. Redesigned based on customer feedback, it includes new features and enhancements. Open to residential and commercial customers, as well as those without a Hydro Ottawa account, the app allows users to sign up to access a number of services and tools like alerts and notifications, report an outage, or open, close or update a new or existing account. New features and functionalities will be rolled out in phases over 2023. Hydro Ottawa Limited, a subsidiary of Hydro Ottawa Holding Inc., delivers electricity to homes and businesses in the City of Ottawa and the Village of Casselman. For more than a century, Hydro Ottawa has supplied its customers with clean, safe and reliable power to help build a vibrant and sustainable national capital region. As a leading partner in a smart energy future, Hydro Ottawa proudly contributes to the well-being of the community it serves through its integration of innovative and sustainable business practices, corporate citizenship initiatives, and offering best-in-class customer service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bins at 91% against Hydro Ottawa's 25%. Bins also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Hydro Ottawa's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 7 months). 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.
Bins ships an update every 7 months, Hydro Ottawa every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bins | Hydro Ottawa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 91.2% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Lutaaya | Hydro Ottawa |
Customer experience
Bins
Hydro Ottawa
Bugs and requests
Bins
Reported bugs
4 issues- Says 'no schedule found' for every Town/City
- Rules for black bin is not showing
- Cannot send feedback from inside the app
- Keeps losing my location
Requested features
10 requests- Store more than one address
- Add reminders
- Add multiple locations
- Full month calendar in advance
- Add an alarm
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- Send an email reminder
- Include hazardous waste collection days/locations
- Info about hazardous waste days and sites
- Less repetition in day countdowns
- Manually add a schedule if not found
Hydro Ottawa
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bins
No in-app purchases
Hydro Ottawa
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Bins free?
Is Hydro Ottawa free?
Do Bins or Hydro Ottawa have ads?
Which is updated more often, Bins or Hydro Ottawa?
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