Powertime has made a selection of the best mobile apps to use for load-shedding. We’ll never let you in the dark! So have a look at our selection, share it to your friends and family, and make load-shedding less painful.
#1. Loadshedding
> Available on iOS, Android
> Supported areas: Eskom direct customers, Johannesburg (City Power) , Cape Town (City of Cape Town), City of Ekurhuleni, Pretoria (City of Tshwane), Nelson Mandela Bay municipality and Durban (eThekwini).
> What you can do with the App:
- Access load shedding schedules for multiple suburbs or areas
- Get push notification when load shedding will take place and when the load shedding stage changes.
> What we like:
- Auto refresh load shedding schedules for selecte
d suburbs.
#2. Loadshed
> Available on iOS, Android
> Supported areas: Eskom direct customers, Cape Town (City of Cape Town), Stellenbosch, Knysna, Johannesburg (City Power), Pretoria (City of Tshwane), Durban (eThekwini), and more areas are being added everyday.
> What you can do with the App:
- Access load shedding schedules for multiple suburbs or areas
- Get push notification when load shedding will take place and when the load shedding stage changes.
- Real-time monitoring of important sources for load shedding updates.
- Add multiple suburbs to your watchlist.
> What we like:
- 100% user friendly design
- Lightning fast and easy to use
- Covers over 85% of South Africa, with more suburbs being added everyday.
- Coming Soon:
- Create an account to use the app across multiple devices,
- Personalised notifications to keep you up to date on your home screen.
- Social Media support on Facebook and Twitter
#3. Gridwatch
> Available on Android
> Supported areas: 126 municipalities.
> What you can do with the App:
- Search and save load shedding schedules from across South Africa
- Customise your app for all your important areas: home, work, school, gym and more!
- Browse advance schedules for the coming week so you can plan your lives around possible outages.
- Sign up for alerts for each schedule and receive notifications in advance as to when load shedding will affect you next.
- Report outages and errors in load shedding schedules to News24 directly.
> What we like:
- Customise your app for all your important areas: home, work, school, gym and more!
- Auto refresh load shedding schedules for selected suburbs.
- It’s quite simple yet efficient and it has everything you need to know to make loadshedding a bit less painful
- You get notification if there is loadshedding scheduled for the day, when loadshedding has started and a 30 minute notification before your area is due to be hit.
#4. Load shed
> Available on Android
> What you can do with the App:
- Find out instantly when load shedding is going to happen and where.
- Use the apps early warning notification system to provide you with up date information on load shedding within your area or on your grid.
- Up to date load shedding schedule.
- LIVE WARNINGS “Report Power On” or “Report Power Off” Generated via other users of the app.
> What we like:
- LIVE WARNINGS “Report Power On” or “Report Power Off” Generated via other users of the app!
- Red or Green grid indicator light for confirmed outages or restoration of power.
- Location based for easy use.
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