Comparison

AirScout vs HelioPeak

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

AirScout

This app automates Wi-Fi environment surveys from the physical layer to the application layer. It simplifies complex measurements into easy-to-understand metrics for technicians to assess and explain location-specific application performance to users.

Highlights
  • Automated Wi-Fi environment surveying
  • Layer 1 to application layer analysis
  • Distills complex measurements into simple metrics
  • Assesses location-specific application performance
  • Reduces customer service calls and truck rolls
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Service providers have found that simply looking at signal strength measurements and using a single instrument is not a true measure of the Wi-Fi user experience in the home. Current workflows result in an uncharacterized Wi-Fi environment causing a high amount of customer service calls and truck rolls. AirScout provides an automated solution that surveys the residence from Layer 1 all the way through to the application layer. AirScout provides technicians with a tool that distills complex measurements into easy to understand metrics, enabling technicians to convey to consumers location-specific application performance when and where they need it.

About

HelioPeak

Monitor your solar panel production and consumption with detailed charts and reports. Analyze year-over-year comparisons, system health, and estimated revenue. Annotate daily data and export reports in various formats.

Highlights
  • Live power readings and daily production overview
  • Production, Consumption, and Combined views
  • Year-over-year comparisons and annual reports
  • System health indicators
  • Annotate daily data with notes
  • CSV and JSON data export
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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HelioPeak gives you a clean, modern way to follow your solar production and consumption with your PVOutput.org data, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. DASHBOARD & CHARTS • Dashboard with live power, today's production and peak, self-use, grid export and import, and estimated revenue • Production, Consumption and Combined views in the charts • Interactive charts for Day, Week, Month, Year and Total, with arrows to step through each period and a date picker to jump anywhere • Your own target line, from the monthly estimates you entered on PVOutput, in the Week, Month and Year charts COMPARE • Lay yesterday, the same day last year, your record day or any date behind the day you are looking at • Show the same period of another year behind your Week, Month and Year bars, with the difference in percent • Put up to four of your systems side by side, per kWp so different sizes compare fairly, also their day curves • Year-over-Year Comparison of today, this month and the year to date, with percentage changes and a shareable one-page PDF SIRI & SHORTCUTS • Ask how much your system produced today, yesterday or this month, without opening the app • The same questions in the Shortcuts app, for any of your systems SOLAR MOMENTS • Shareable cards for records, milestones, quarter and year recaps, installation anniversaries and sunny streaks, with a notification • Statistics: all your moments at a glance, the records to beat and the next milestone INSIGHTS & REPORTING • Annual Report PDF: a multi-page A4 report with totals, monthly breakdown, peak days and yield, in all six app languages • Monthly Report: after each month, a one-page PDF per system, the month against last year and your estimate • Export for AI: one file with your history for the AI assistant of your choice • CSV and JSON export of your daily production and consumption • System health dots: see at a glance whether each system reports normally • Specific Yield (kWh/kWp per year) and Yearly Average, the solar industry's benchmarks • Estimated revenue from your electricity price, CO₂ savings and a tree equivalent iPAD & MAC • Native iPad layout with sidebar, Inspector panel, year heatmap and keyboard shortcuts • Also runs on Macs with Apple silicon (the iPad version) NOTES & TIMELINE • Add notes to any day: cleaning, weather, panel issues • Browse them in the Timeline; they sync across your Apple devices through iCloud WIDGETS • Home Screen widgets in three sizes, the large one with today's curve; each widget can show a different system • Lock Screen widgets with today's production UNDER THE HOOD • Smart caching: works offline, with up to 80% fewer API calls • Built-in demo system: try the app before connecting your own PRIVACY FIRST HelioPeak talks directly to the PVOutput API with your own read-only API key. Your key is stored on your device and goes only to PVOutput. No ads, no tracking. Anonymous usage statistics and crash reports help improve the app; you can switch them off in Settings. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create a read-only API key on pvoutput.org (Settings, API Access) 2. Enter your System ID and API key in HelioPeak 3. Explore your solar production and consumption HelioPeak never sees your PVOutput password. MULTIPLE SYSTEMS The free version supports one PVOutput system. Unlock unlimited systems with a single in-app purchase. HelioPeak is not affiliated with PVOutput.org. Revenue estimates are for information only.

Screenshots

HelioPeak4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AirScout at none against HelioPeak's 1. AirScout also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). HelioPeak's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HelioPeak sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AirScout asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for AirScout against 5.0 for HelioPeak. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AirScout ships an update every 4 months, HelioPeak every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
AirScout versus HelioPeak: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAirScoutHelioPeak
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTEMPO COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Sven De Troch

Customer experience

AirScout

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

HelioPeak

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

AirScout

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

HelioPeak

One-time1
  • Unlock Multiple Systems$5.99

Questions

Is AirScout free?
AirScout is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HelioPeak free?
HelioPeak is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, AirScout or HelioPeak?
AirScout and HelioPeak are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do AirScout or HelioPeak have ads?
Neither AirScout nor HelioPeak shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AirScout or HelioPeak?
AirScout ships an update every 4 months, and HelioPeak every 3 days. Most recently, AirScout was updated on October 24, 2026 and HelioPeak on October 28, 2026.

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