What's down in your area? Check ESP.
Whole street dark? Water off again? Wifi down? ESP (previously EskomSePush) shows live power, water and internet outages in your suburb, reported by the neighbours living through them. Then you can talk to them about it.
Free, made in South Africa, and used by millions.
IS IT JUST ME?
Open ESP and know in seconds. Every area you follow shows the live status of power, water and internet, built from your neighbours' reports.
- Check in with one tap: "Mine's off" or "I have power"
- Watch it happen on a 24-hour chart of off and on reports
- Read a short summary of what's going on while it lasts
- See the moment it starts coming back on
TALK TO YOUR AREA
Every area has its own chats for power, water, internet and Ask my street. Post a photo of the burst pipe, ask who else heard the bang, find a plumber, return a lost dog.
- Message people near you. They get a request first and decide whether to chat
- Add a profile photo so the neighbours know who's who
- Sign in with WhatsApp, Apple, Google or email
STILL THE LOADSHEDDING APP
Nobody wants it back. If it comes, ESP is ready.
- Schedules for your actual suburb, not a block number
- The famous 55-minute heads-up, so the kettle's on in time
- Home, work, school and the folks, all in one list
WEATHER FOR YOUR STREET
Current conditions, the next 24 hours, a 14-day outlook and weather warnings for every area you follow.
ALERTS ON YOUR TERMS
Choose which chats notify you and for how long: 8 hours, 24 hours or always. Mute the noisy ones, keep the ones that matter.
ESP SUPPORTER
ESP is free. Become a Supporter to remove ads, add the home screen widget with your area's status and schedule, and get a supporter badge in chat.
All of South Africa, suburb by suburb. Building something? The ESP Business API puts the same outage and schedule data in your product.
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ESP is independent and not affiliated with Eskom or any municipality.
After launching this app for maybe the millionth time, I happened to notice a section on the main screen that mentioned the bad ratings it had received to-date. Now, I’m not someone who places a lot of faith in most ratings in general (especially those that are open to the general public) and instead prefer to try things myself. By extension, I’m also not someone who normally partakes in submitting any such ratings, let alone write accompanying reviews for them.After checking the app & seeing that load shedding was scheduled for my area, I find myself uncharacteristically writing this review now because I’ve confirmed the existence of the negative reviews mentioned previously (one star, really?) & because I’ve found the app to be too invaluable to-date to let this one go. Also, because there’s load shedding in my area now (predicted correctly once again by this app) and I have some spare time on my hands. To get to the point:I’ve been using this app for years now - both at work and at home. I work in the energy industry, so I reference info supplied by this app several times a day. I can confidently say that it is the most useful app that has ever been installed on any phone that I have ever owned. I don’t need a widget extension for it, nor was I even aware of the chat functionality mentioned in some of its other reviews. I just want an app from which I can *always* obtain the correct info on any upcoming load shedding sessions on demand. Given the handful of bad reviews for it, perhaps I’ve been super lucky… but this app has not failed me yet. Not even once.
Changing stages
morning bird7
While your app is wonderfully accurate, these ever-changing notifications give us anxiety. At10pm at night we get a notification that says we are down to stage 2. And then at 4am next day we get a notification that it’s back to stage 4. Why mess us around? Why not just leave it on stage 4 the whole weekend or the whole week because that’s what’s gonna happen anyway. Why do we keep getting notifications every 6 hours that things will change and they don’t? It gets our hopes up for nothing. And makes us change plans unnecessarily. Other than this, this app really helps. A lot. Because to hell with this country and the thieves at Eskom who blame us for their incompetence. Electricity is a basic human need. Like water and whatever else. What we are being charged is ridiculous in a country that has no jobs for people.
Convenient and Helpful
Its_Matt
Overall this app is excellent. There are reliable updates on loadshedding for the country and you can choose several areas to monitor. The insights are useful too. There are two main drawbacks in my opinion: 1 - the app has a feature that allows users to talk to one another. This would be excellent if the chat was limited to topics that relate to municipal and other services and the outages thereof. Unfortunately most people seem to use it to chat about irrelevant topics such as games they play. 2 - the app doesn’t have a widget that can be added to a home-screen. This means to see the information, one has to open the app every time. Ideally a small widget that just has the current level of loadshedding and the next time the loadshedding is going to effect a particular area would be part of the app. I recommend this app over all the other websites and app that claim to keep track of loadshedding.
An Excellent App
TashenG10
To everybody reading this, the creators of this app are not from Eskom. They have created something with this app that Eskom wish they had.This app provides accurate load shedding schedules and timely notifications regarding load shedding. Every time a stage is changed for example, a notification is sent out.In addition to this, this app has an active community within the app – there is a chat feature which brings together users of the app based on their location. So apart from load shedding, if you have a problem with your water in your area for example, you can put a message up and find out if others from your area are experiencing an outage too.Eskom and whatever other companies should hire the developers of this app because that’s the smart move.
◆ Direct messages
Chat privately with neighbours. Tap someone's profile to send them a message.
◆ Profile photos
Add a photo to your profile so neighbours know who they're talking to. Photos now show in chats, messages and notifications.
◆ Tell Jeff
Let Jeff know what you like and don't like: support@esp.info
Version 6.8.4
The developer, WELLWELLWELL, 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 Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
Identifiers
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Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Location
Contact Info
User Content
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Contact Info
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Information
Provider
WELLWELLWELL INVESTMENT
Size
111.1 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
