Description
iPad APP OF THE WEEK in the UK and Ireland, 10th-17th March 2011
Closely monitor your household energy and water usage and the chances are you will SAVE MONEY!
This useful application makes it easy to monitor your household utility meters. Once you start entering meter readings, your usage, costs and savings are calculated and displayed in easy to visualise graphs.
For UK users, you can also compare your usage and costs against energy supplier prices in your area to see if you can SAVE EVEN MORE MONEY. You can even switch suppliers directly from your device!
"THE TOP 500 APPS IN THE WORLD", The Sunday Times, 13th Feb 2011
"Top 10 iPad Financial Apps", money.co.uk, 26th Jan 2011
"iTunes Rewind 2010, Top Paid iPhone Finance Apps", 6th in Ireland and the UK!
"iTunes Rewind 2010, Top Paid iPad Finance Apps", 2nd in Ireland and the UK!
"Top five money-saving apps", NatWest and RBS Sense Magazine, Autumn 2010
"Top money-saving apps for new iPhone", Daily Mail, 30th Jun 2010
"The 60 Best iPhone Apps", T3 Magazine, Feb 2010
"Apps to save you money", The Telegraph, 21st Dec 2009
"Weekly top iPhone Apps: Energy consumption management", The Independent, 3rd Dec 2009
"Ten of the best ... money-saving iPhone apps", The Guardian, 10th Nov 2009
"Best iPhone Apps of 2009", CNET UK, 5th Nov 2009
"Top 10 iPhone apps to save you money", The Sunday Times and Times Online, 11th Oct 2009
KEY FEATURES
✔ Monitor your electricity, gas and water meters across one or more properties. Also includes support for solar and wind generation meters
✔ Quick entry of readings, as often as you like
✔ For iPhone 4 users, automatically use the rear-facing LED torch/flashlight when reading your meters
✔ Shows usage and costs for the latest readings period, as well as any savings compared with your average
✔ Plots graphs of usage and cost per day, week, month, quarter or year, so that you can visualise changes over time
✔ If you have 2 years worth of readings, your previous year is plotted too, letting you easily compare the two
✔ Graphs can be viewed in landscape mode to see even more information
✔ Check your bills by comparing any pair of readings (e.g. those submitted to your supplier)
✔ View your usage and costs since your last bill, as well as an estimate of when and how much your next bill will be
✔ Uses the currency from your region settings, with the option to override this per meter
✔ Handles a wide range of rates and charges, e.g. fixed charges, per-month rates, stepped per-usage rates for up to 12 levels, Economy 7, time of day meters ... etc
✔ User configurable units, so the app could be used for other types of measurement (e.g. oil, petrol/gas, broadband data, weight ... etc)
BACKUP FEATURE
✔ One-time in-app purchase thats lets you backup your settings and data
✔ Transfer backups by email, Bluetooth, WiFi, iTunes file sharing or Dropbox
✔ Sync data between devices (e.g. iPhone and iPad) using Bluetooth and Dropbox
✔ Restore backups
✔ Import historical readings as a CSV file
PRICE COMPARISON (UK only)
✔ Compare your usage and costs against energy supplier prices for your area
✔ Use the link provided to switch energy suppliers
SUPPORT
Please don't leave support requests on iTunes as these are anonymous and I have no way of contacting you if I have questions. Instead there is a link to my support page from iTunes and from the app itself (or simply go to http://grahamhaley.co.uk/meters/). Alternatively, PLEASE contact me directly via my support pages and you will get a quick response.
What's new in Version 2.9
Added Dropbox support to the backup and restore feature, to make it even easier to share your data between devices (e.g. your iPhone and iPad). Also moved the Backups functionality to the Settings screen.
By popular request, added a reminder feature in the settings, where you can set up a daily, weekly or monthly reminder to take your readings. This only works on devices running iOS 4.0 or above as it relies on Apple's local notification service.
Added a quick 2-3 minute getting started tour for new users. I would recommend everyone going through this in case you aren't aware of some of the features.
Big improvements to the graphs, not only to add a bit of colour, but also to let you find out the values at each of the points. All you need to do is touch and hold the graph, then drag left or right.
On non-iPad devices, you now need to double tap the graph to switch between usage and costs.
Moved the meter and rate settings to the Meters screen.
Added support for meters with up to 8 digits.
IPA size 1.2 MB
LANGUAGES: English
REQUIREMENTS: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later
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