The Best Solar Monitoring Apps In Australia

Want to get maximum value out of your solar and battery system? You’ll need a good solar monitoring solution. Here’s a rundown on the top-rated solar monitoring apps available in Australia.

Why Is A Good Solar Monitoring App Important?

Without monitoring, you’re flying blind — you could lose hundreds of dollars a year from a failed inverter or underperforming system and not even know it.

A great app makes monitoring effortless, with clear graphs, instant alerts, and easy comparisons over time, so you can get every cent of value from your solar investment.

When you can see exactly how much you’re generating, you can shift the energy consumption of your home — for instance when you use your air conditioner or dishwasher — to when the sun’s blazing.

While third-party solutions exist, we’re looking below at the apps offered by inverter manufacturers, so it is worth considering app performance before settling on which inverter brand you install.

A Clear Winner

We’ve done some analysis on the top-rated solar monitoring apps according to reviews on the Google Play store and the Apple App store, and there was an obvious standout at number one with the mySolarEdge app.

But if you don’t have or don’t want to get a SolarEdge inverter because of their dicey technical support or connections to the Israeli government, there are a handful of other apps with good ratings. Just note that for the alternatives, there are significant differences in review scores on Google Play and Apple App Store, so do consider whether you’ll be using an Android or Apple device.

The Best-Rated Solar Monitoring App in Australia

mySolarEdge

Google Play Store: 4.4 out of 5 average rating 

Apple App Store: 4.6 out of 5 average rating

What Users Liked: Tracks energy use and production in real-time, identifies energy efficiency opportunities, controls smart home devices and EV charging, displays inverter status for troubleshooting, is available on Google Wear OS.

What Users Complained About: Poor customer support, production data broken with off-peak battery charging, aggregates data from multiple inverters/batteries (making individual assessment difficult).

For detail on SolarEdge inverters used with their solar monitoring app, read our review.

Other Apps Worth Considering

Enphase Enlighten

Google Play Store: 3.9 out of 5 average rating

Apple App Store: 4.6 out of 5 average rating 

What Users Liked: Verifies system health and performance, views energy production, analyzes performance against historical weather data, responsive developers, good for seeing energy produced, 12-month raw data access.

What Users Complained About: Notifications often don’t work, takes multiple attempts to connect, updates cause internet connection issues and inaccurate data, less DIY-friendly, support directs to installer, display limit for microinverters.

For more detail on Enphase inverters used with their solar monitoring app, read our review.

SMA Energy 

Google Play Store: 4.1 out of 5 average rating

Apple App Store: 3.5 out of 5 average rating 

What Users Liked: Clearly structured display of important data, intelligent management of energy flows and EV charging, provides forecasts for solar power production, DarkMode, improved accessibility, and landscape mode available.

What Users Complained About: Doesn’t show much data beyond energy generated, slow to update and start up, no individual inverter data for multiple inverters, no estimated vs. actual production data, poor color choices and low contrast in graphs, slower navigation between time period graphs, app often crashes, data transfer issues from old Sunny Portal accounts.

For detail on SMA Energy inverters used with their solar monitoring app, read our review.

Tesla

Google Play Store: Average Rating: 3 out of 5 

Apple App Store: Average Rating 4.3 out of 5 

What Users Liked: Comprehensive control over Tesla vehicles and energy products, real-time monitoring of solar and Powerwall, ability to download solar production and battery usage data.

What Users Complained About: Poor graphical user interface for charge stats, limited control over data display (e.g. clickable calendar, data export), slow and unresponsive UI, lengthy account setup for EV charging, lack of weather integration for battery top-up, large app size, less intuitive charging UI compared to competitors.

For more on the Tesla Powerwall 3 used with Tesla’s solar monitoring app, read our review.

For more on getting the most out of solar monitoring, read our detailed guide.