Collection for Auckland vs EliteCloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Collection for Auckland
This app helps Auckland residents manage their waste and property information. It identifies recyclable items, provides disposal tips, and tracks bin collection dates with reminders. You can also access council-provided rate and valuation data for any Auckland property.
- Personal disposal assistant (Binjamin)
- Recyclable item identification
- Disposal tips
- Bin collection date checker
- Recycling content guide
- Holiday collection reminders
- Property rate and valuation info
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Collection for Auckland is the ultimate tool for all Aucklanders! With it, you can: • Meet Binjamin—your personal disposal assistant! Identify recyclable items or get expert disposal tips to make smarter waste decisions. • Check rubbish/recycling bin collection dates • Check what can go inside the recycling bin • Receive reminder notifications on holiday weeks • Out house hunting? Get accurate rate & valuation information for any Auckland property provided by the council with a tap of a button.
EliteCloud
Remotely manage your EliteControl security system from your smartphone. Arm or disarm alarms, control gates, doors, and lights. Receive instant, customizable notifications for various events, ensuring peace of mind whether you're home or away.
- Arm/Disarm security system
- Control doors, gates, and lights
- Receive push notifications
- Monitor system status and history
- Manage users and sites
- Bank-level encrypted connection
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EliteCloud connects your smartphone to any EliteControl security system from almost anywhere. Arm/Disarm your alarm, control garage doors, gates, lights & more. Receive notifications directly to your smartphone should anything happen when you are at home or away. Notifications are customisable and include alarms, power failure, battery failure, panic, fire, medical and tamper alarms. App Features • Arm/Disarm • Door, Gate & Lighting Control • Push Notifications • Monitoring • Fire • System History • System Status • User Management • Bank Level Encrypted Connection • Up to 100 Users • Control Up to 100 sites • Regular Updates Hardware Required for EliteCloud Smartphone App • ESL-2, ESL, V9 or Runner alarm system • ESL-2 IoT or IoT-MODULE with internet connection • new ECi For more information regarding compatibility & supported products, please contact your preferred security installer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EliteCloud at none against Collection for Auckland's 1. EliteCloud also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (9 vs 2). Collection for Auckland's advantage is review sentiment (60% vs 33%). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Collection for Auckland sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. EliteCloud asks for nothing beyond the download.
EliteCloud holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Collection for Auckland's written reviews are positive against 33% of EliteCloud's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Collection for Auckland ships an update every 4 weeks, EliteCloud every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Collection for Auckland | EliteCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.4 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 32.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | App House Limited | Arrowhead Alarm Products |
Customer experience
Collection for Auckland
EliteCloud
User reviews
Collection for Auckland
From 2 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and convenient
- 👍 Helpful for remembering collection dates
- 👍 Saves time compared to searching council websites
- 👍 Good for checking other people's addresses
- 👍 Appreciated for its core functionality
Room to improve
- 🐛 Blank/blue screen issues
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Slow loading times
- 🐛 Inaccurate collection dates reported
- 🐛 Ads are intrusive and disruptive
EliteCloud
From 9 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 User friendly and easy to use
- 👍 Great system, very pleased
- 👍 Good value, stable and consistent
- 👍 Nice upgrade, great app
- 👍 Works well, solid and easy
Room to improve
- 🐛 Fails to connect often
- 🐛 Unreliable connection
- 🐛 Regularly disconnects
- 🐛 Slow to connect
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" errors
Bugs and requests
Collection for Auckland
Reported bugs
27 issues- Failed to load collection on occasion
- No information on bins, when, or times
- Blank blue screen
- Takes a long time to open any functions
- My account got deleted
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- Displays a blank screen after entering address
- App no longer works on my iPhone
- Found a bug but no way to contact developer
- Sometimes app does not open
- Takes ages to load
- App crashes when selecting check your address
- App doesn't do anything when typing in an address
- Always flashes out
- App crashes as soon as I select an address
- Rubbish/recycle collection date is out by a week
- Have not received push notifications
- Permanent unclearable notification
- Google ad pushes information out of view
- Crash all the time
- Wring date displayed
- App crashes after rating
- Doesn't work still
- It’s Broken
- App informed me next collection date incorrectly
- Crashes every time I enter a specific address
- The apps never work
- Doesn't show any collection date
Requested features
5 requests- Option to cancel or set custom reminder times
- Widgets with reminders for home screen
- Ability to save multiple addresses
- Option for an ad-free experience (paid)
- Add garden collection reminders
EliteCloud
Reported bugs
89 issues- 🐛 Fails to connect
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" errors
- 🐛 Regularly disconnects
- 🐛 App crashes
- 🐛 Stops communicating with keypad
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- 🐛 Locked out of app
- 🐛 Does not work with multiple iPhones
- 🐛 Recent update shut down app
- 🐛 "Failure to connect" consistently
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" after firmware upgrade
- 🐛 "Server offline" errors
- 🐛 "Disconnected from server"
- 🐛 "Trouble" light with "Line"
- 🐛 "App keyboard not working"
- 🐛 "Unable to type or scan code correctly"
- 🐛 "Bad alarm" goes off for no reason
- 🐛 Offline alerts when no internet issue
- 🐛 Constant problems, keeps disconnecting
- 🐛 "Trouble" problems switching off remotely
- 🐛 "Connection issues" shows unhealthy
- 🐛 "Server communication errors"
- 🐛 "App doesn’t work" incorrect status
- 🐛 "Controls keep disappearing"
- 🐛 "Arming" shows disarmed on app
- 🐛 "Connection issues" logs you out
- 🐛 Brief blue tick for executed actions, easy to miss
- 🐛 Struggles to connect despite strong wifi
- 🐛 App fails to connect, then works when active, fails again after screen lock
- 🐛 Cannot connect since iOS 17
- 🐛 Reboots needed for keypad beeping
- 🐛 Lost connection
- 🐛 Issues with multiple sites
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" after firmware upgrade
- 🐛 "Failure to connect" 99.99% of the time
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" yet works when connected
- 🐛 "Failure to connect" 100% of the time since iOS 17
- 🐛 "Server offline" more times than can count
- 🐛 "Disconnected from server" constantly
- 🐛 "Unreliable" makes me re-login a lot
- 🐛 UI glitching, wouldn't disarm
- 🐛 "Poor app" regularly crashing
- 🐛 "Fail to connect often"
- 🐛 "Cannot connect at all"
- 🐛 "Connection is still connection"
- 🐛 "App doesn’t work"
- 🐛 "Arming" shows disarmed on app
- 🐛 "Connection issues" continuously logs out
- 🐛 "Internet Connection" for 15 days app could not connect
- 🐛 "Time wasters" server offline
- 🐛 "Scam company" no support
- 🐛 "Worse than ever" nothing but problems
- 🐛 "Elite cloud" too many issues
- 🐛 "Mr" unstable connection
- 🐛 "Trouble" problems switching off remotely
- 🐛 "Basic functionality works, but lacks practical features"
- 🐛 "Connection issues" shows unhealthy
- 🐛 "Locked out of app" after cancelling subscription
- 🐛 "Minor bugs fixed?" recent update shut down app
- 🐛 "Still not working properly" fails to connect
- 🐛 "Disappointed" will not work with two iPhones
- 🐛 "Unreliable" app crashed
- 🐛 "Slow" very slow to connect
- 🐛 "Connection issues" shows unhealthy
- 🐛 "Warning! Scam company" do not support
- 🐛 "Worse than ever" nothing but problems
- 🐛 "Elite cloud" too many issues
- 🐛 "Mr" unstable connection
- 🐛 "Trouble" problems switching off remotely
- 🐛 "Not good!" terrible app
- 🐛 "Fails to Connect" since iOS 17
- 🐛 "Constant problems" keeps disconnecting
- 🐛 "Routinely won't connect"
- 🐛 "Cloud reliability" not reliable
- 🐛 "I can’t open the app"
- 🐛 "Online" drops in and out
- 🐛 "Time wasters" server offline
- 🐛 "Network issues" disconnected from server
- 🐛 "Issues with adding alarm" keyboard not working
- 🐛 "Needs for programming options" trouble light
- 🐛 "Unreliable" makes me re-login
- 🐛 "Poor app" crashing
- 🐛 "Fail to connect often"
- 🐛 "Almost Perfect!" needs panic button
- 🐛 "To many server communication errors"
- 🐛 "Internet Connection" could not connect
- 🐛 "App doesn’t work" incorrect status
- 🐛 "Controls keep disappearing"
- 🐛 "Arming" shows disarmed on app
- 🐛 "Connection issues" logs you out
Requested features
8 requests- 💡 Per-mode notifications
- 💡 Geofencing automation for arming/disarming
- 💡 Sensor history logs
- 💡 Show garage door open/closed status
- 💡 Panic button option in the app
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- 💡 Ability to activate Face ID
- 💡 Schedule arming/disarming times remotely
- 💡 More programming options in the app
In-app purchases
Collection for Auckland
- Remove ads$2.99
EliteCloud
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Collection for Auckland free?
Is EliteCloud free?
Which has better reviews, Collection for Auckland or EliteCloud?
Do Collection for Auckland or EliteCloud have ads?
Which is updated more often, Collection for Auckland or EliteCloud?
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