Octopus Watch 4+

Track all Smart Octopus Rates

Kim Bauters

    • £1.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Octopus Watch is the easiest tool to manage the (smart) tariffs provided by Octopus Energy in the UK. Octopus Watch is a paymium app for iOS offering both a standard version as a one-time purchase, and an optional subscription with additional features.

Ready to supercharge your savings?

Save significantly on your electricity bill, regardless of whether you're on Agile, Go, Cosy, Flux, Tracker, or any fixed tariffs (basic or eco 7). Thinking of joining Agile? Log into the app with just your postcode and check out local rates. If you want to see your consumption history, you'll need an Octopus Energy account and an active smart meter. Please note that support for Intelligent and Intelligent Go is currently limited, with only default off-peak times available. For the latest status on tariff support check out the wiki: https://wiki.smarthound.uk/octopus-watch/tariffs/ .

With the standard version of Octopus Watch, you'll have all the tools at your fingertips to effectively manage your tariff:
• View your current rates in an instant (including for gas trackers).
• View your current electricity rates directly on your Apply Watch!
• See all your upcoming rates in an easy chart and table.
• Instantly get the cheapest times to run appliances or charge your EV, and save big!
• Use the beautiful widget for current and upcoming prices on your home screen.
• Receive alerts when the next day's Agile rates are available.
• See your historic day-by-day usage.
• Use the new micro metrics to quickly see trends in your usage.
• See when your meter fails and how much data is missing.
• Understand how weather influences your usage.
• One tap comparison to see how your tariff compares to Agile, Go, and SVT.
• Check your earnings from export (only available with an export meter).
• Various options to change the app defaults to best suit your needs!
• Export cleaned data to CSV for easy use in other apps such as Microsoft® Excel®.

Want even more? A single subscription gets you access to these amazing features:
• Up to 48h Agile rate predictions – plan your usage effectively and save even more!
• If you have an export meter, also receive Agile export rate predictions.
• Access 7-day weather forecasts across Great Britain for even better planning.
• Instant notifications when next day's Agile prices fall below your chosen threshold.
• Identify optimal half-hour blocks throughout the day to charge your EV or run appliances.
• Carbon integration - see your environmental impact both now and in the past.
• View your electricity generation regionally or nationally, and adjusted to your usage.
• Choose the best slot based on either price or lowest carbon emissions on the grid.
• One tap comparison to see how your tariff compares to most smart tariffs.
• Advanced micro metrics over 14 or 28 days, including subscription-only metrics.
• Day details – see your exact usage along with numerous statistics on a day-by-day basis.
• Day details – see exactly which data is missing when your meter stops reporting.
• Micro-optimise your usage with half-hour details within the app.
• Generate straightforward electricity reports for any period in the last year.
• Generate detailed gas reports, including heat pump efficiency information, for the last year.

Thanks to Family Sharing you can install the app on all devices within the same family. Install it on your iPhone for an easy pocket reference, run it from your iPad to see the beautiful rate graph and double column table, or see the current rate with a flick of your wrist on your Apple Watch with dozens of complications to choose from. The choice is yours! Octopus Watch also supports subscription sharing, so one subscription gives you access to all the extras on all the iPhones and iPads in your household.

What’s New

Version 5.0.1

Version 5 is a major update bringing a speedier app with some great new features:
• 5.0.1: hotfix to correctly display export tariff label
• new one-tap tariff comparison
• new micro metrics to easily see trends in your data
• (subscription) full year electricity data and energy reports
• (subscription) tracker rate predictions
And, of course, various other minor improvements throughout!

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
554 Ratings

554 Ratings

IisteveiI ,

Edited: Stopped working

Edit: With help from the developer, who has been in touch & very helpful since my original Review, I’m trying to resolve the issues I’ve had which appear to be Octopus Energy’s issues & not the App Developer.

I have re-rated the review from two stars to five in the interests of clarity.

Original Review: The app itself is good but it’s recently stopped working on the last update. The history will no longer load despite the data being visible on the Octopus Energy website. The data is being read from the meter & I can see it if I log into my account but no longer on the app. Initially I started to delete the app & re-install it & this would drag through the data & update the app but recently this has also stopped working.

Developer Response ,

Hi, sorry to hear something is going wrong. Drop me an email at contact@smarthound.uk with your account number and API key and I can help you out. There are a myriad of things that can go wrong, but what usually happens is that something goes wrong on Octopus Energy's end when updating your account when switching tariffs. I can help you pinpoint the issue and either help you fix it or point you in the right direction for getting support to resolve the issue from Octopus Energy.

Pete Lawrance ,

Got Octopus Agile Tariff - This app is a must have!

This is a brilliant app I use it daily to save myself wasting money on using electricity at the best times. Sometimes just waiting a few minutes to the next 30 minute slot can halve the cos. It’s great to have the ability to know when to charge my electric car tonight or is it cheaper tomorrow night possibly. I also have the now and next prices on my Apple Watch face for quick reference. However since the last watch update has stopped working on my older version of the Apple Watch. The developer contacted me with the solution to getting it working again in Watch series 3 😊 was also very detailed in her response to me. Finally a developer who cares about the app and genuinely wants to assist 👍👍

Developer Response ,

Hi Pete, just updating my response as well. Thanks for getting in touch, and always feel free to reach out to me if you have issues, questions, etc at contact@smarthound.uk.

For other users: there have been a number of bugs introduced in WatchOS lately. Get in touch with me if you are using an Apple Watch Series 3. If you are on a Series 4, 5, 6 or SE: (1) restart the Apple Watch, and (2) open the Octopus Watch app directly from the app screen on the Apple Watch. This should resolve the issue.

Brian Molson ,

Cracking app for Agile users

Used every day to find the cheapest (and avoid the dearest) electricity prices. Excellent customisable reports, many graphs for geeks to go wild over.

Agile is a great tariff that gets you thinking about using your electricity when it’s less carbon intensive (and therefore cheaper). I find this app an essential companion.

You do have to accept that the Agile tariff remains a beta product and (occasionally) data doesn’t flow correctly from your Smart Meter, which means you might have a gap in your stats. This always resolves in a few days, so just chill out! As always, the last link in the chain before the end user tends to get a kicking when things don’t work - mainly from people who won’t take 5 minutes to read the explanation provided in the app!!!

App Privacy

The developer, Kim Bauters, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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