The Bencompare app maps your fixed costs and keeps an eye on the durations of contracts.
Dennis Gandasoebrata
The makers of Gaslicht.com offer an app with the Bencompare app with which you map your fixed costs and keep an eye on the durations of contracts.
The app offers a few main components. First, it shows your fixed costs in a dashboard. You see how many current contracts you have and what costs you incur. When registering the contracts, there is also the possibility to add files, so that you also have the original documents at hand.
Another section shows the energy consumption of the home, where the data comes from your smart meter. The data is read in the night. In practice, this means a day ‘delay’ for this data. Do you need real -time Insight, then you do not have enough of this app. To read data from the P1 port of the smart meter, hardware is needed, something that is not offered by these makers.
If you want to know more about your energy consumption, you can click through the app for a detailed graph.
Because the app registers the periods of current contracts, you will receive a notification when you can switch. That is of course also one of the most important characteristics and the revenue model of this app.
At the time of writing, it is not possible to organize the contracts in different sections, but are mixed in one overview. With a larger amount of contracts this can become messy.
Bencompare (www.bencompare.com)
Price: Free
System requirements: Android 6.0+, iOS 13.4+
Language: Dutch, English