Mobitel Selfcare vs EDLCare
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mobitel Selfcare
Manage all your mobile services with ease. This app provides interactive dashboards for usage statistics, one-touch activation for add-on plans, and the ability to manage digital services and roaming. It offers full control over your mobile connection, including payment options.
- Interactive usage dashboards
- One-touch add-on plan activation
- Add/remove digital services
- Manage roaming and data roaming
- Mobile connection control
- Payment options
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The all new and enhanced Mobitel Self Care App offering the luxury to control all Mobitel services conveniently. The app is designed to deliver ultimate control to the user with power packed features including: - Interactive dashboards with usage statistics - One touch activation for add-on plans - Conveniently add or remove your digital services - Manage all Roaming and data Roaming services - Gives full Control of Mobile connection with payment options and many more Download the Mobitel Self Care free application to experience the comfort of managing all your Mobitel connections which furthermore allows functioning in all three languages.
EDLCare
Manage your electricity account with ease. View bills, make payments, track usage, and report outages. Get real-time updates and notifications for a seamless experience.
- View current balance and bill breakdown
- Download e-Bills as PDF
- Online bill payments
- Monitor monthly usage trends
- Report outages and track complaints
- Nationwide outage map
- Push notifications for updates
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EDLCare is the official app of Electricity Distribution Lanka (Private) Limited, built to give every electricity customer fast, simple, and secure access to their accounts anytime, anywhere. View your current balance and full bill breakdown, download your e-Bill as a PDF, and pay your electricity bill online in seconds — for your account . Monitor your monthly usage trends through easy charts, and if you're a smart meter customer, check live energy and voltage data straight from your smart meter. When something goes wrong, report it directly through the app by selecting your account or pinning your location on the map — no phone call needed — and follow every step of your complaint live until it's fully resolved. Stay ahead of power interruptions with our nationwide outage map showing real-time breakdowns and planned outages across Sri Lanka, and use the outage calendar to see what's coming up for your linked accounts each month. Push notifications keep you informed about complaint updates, billing reminders, and power interruptions the moment they happen. Whether you manage one account at home or multiple accounts across different locations, EDLCare brings everything together in one place — available in English, Sinhala, and Tamil, with full light and dark mode support.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: EDLCare at fortnightly against Mobitel Selfcare's every 6 months. Mobitel Selfcare's advantage is ratings volume (74 vs 6). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.9 for Mobitel Selfcare against 3.0 for EDLCare. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mobitel Selfcare has 74 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mobitel Selfcare ships an update every 6 months, EDLCare fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Mobitel Selfcare | EDLCare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (74 ratings) | 3.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 4.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 74 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mobitel Pvt Ltd | Electricity Distribution Lanka (Private) Limited |
Customer experience
Mobitel Selfcare
EDLCare
Bugs and requests
Mobitel Selfcare
Reported bugs
53 issues- App crashes after recent update
- App stuck in loading screen
- App doesn't work after update
- App is not working
- App crashing often
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- App is down most of the time
- Selfcare app not working
- Cannot see any details in the app
- Billing details have disappeared
- App activated wrong package
- App failed to activate package
- Customer care advised SMS for online purchase
- Error message: 'Oops something is wrong'
- App not working for 3 months
- App crashes
- Cannot deactivate data plan
- Usage statistics doesn't work
- Stuck at choose language
- Application not opening, closes automatically
- Fail to load data when logging in
- E-bills not viewable
- Payment gate to access cards not functioning
- Error message: 'Sorry, we are unable to process your request at this moment. Please try again later'
- App data became unavailable when closed
- User data removes automatically, requires re-login
- Doesn't show available data balance specifically
- Horrible optimization, slow loading and navigation
- Constantly logs off
- Add-on link does not work
- Some links in the app don't work or are frozen
- App not working after iOS upgrade
- Error in loop
- Crash message, app not working
- App doesn't work properly
- Need to log in everyday
- App does not open after iOS upgrade, looping error message
- Persistent Store Failure MFP Error, app doesn't load
- App is not accurate
- App doesn't show billing period
- Shows data left but not expiry
- Doesn't show off-peak start/finish times
- Cannot load any data
- Fails every time when trying to add another number
- Cannot top up with credit card
- Payment goes through then app logs out
- Takes forever to get verification SMS
- Pasting iPhone formatted number breaks field
- Credit card top ups work 2/10 times
- App is really slow to load
- Useless on iPad for data balance
- App looked zoomed and ugly on iPhone 6
- Difficulties of signing in
- Unable to login, invalid user ID or password
Requested features
39 requests- Improve app reliability
- Fix app crashing issues
- Ensure app works after updates
- Improve network speed
- Provide QR for eSIM purchases
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- Improve customer care responsiveness
- Make app customer-friendly
- Display billing details consistently
- Allow activation of correct packages
- Improve app loading speed
- Enhance user interface
- Clarify package information
- Enable package deactivation
- Fix usage statistics
- Make e-bills viewable
- Fix payment gateway
- Fix app freezing at language selection
- Prevent automatic app closure
- Display account details
- Keep app online consistently
- Fix app not working issues
- Allow login to Mobitel account
- Fix data disappearing after app closure
- Add more data packages
- Show specific available data balance
- Allow viewing all SIM transactions
- Show detailed data usage per package
- Improve app features
- Introduce a better app
- Fix error messages
- Allow adding multiple numbers
- Fix credit card top-up issues
- Speed up verification SMS
- Handle formatted number input
- Update app for latest devices
- Improve sign-in process
- Fix login failures
- Display data usage history for iPad
- Show data balance for iPad
EDLCare
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mobitel Selfcare
No in-app purchases
EDLCare
No in-app purchases
