Check My Solar
Jack Pearce Utilities iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Check My Solar is a free Utilities app for iPhone and iPad by Jack Pearce. Requires iOS 18.6. Updated August 15, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 36 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 15
- 2026 · v5.20.1
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About Check My Solar
Monitor your Fox ESS solar system with real-time insights, smart notifications, Home Screen widgets, and comprehensive analytics. Check My Solar is the companion app for Fox ESS owners who want a clear, modern dashboard: solar production, battery, home consumption, and grid import/export in one place-on your iPhone, and now on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Home Screen widgets & Live Activity • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island: today’s generation, forecast context, live home power, battery level-or export and earnings when the battery is full. • Widgets for today’s solar, load, grid, export, battery, money, live status, month/year summaries, day curves for solar and load, forecast, forecast vs actual, net grid, peak hour, and more-mix and match the tiles that matter to you. • Many advanced widgets are included with Check My Solar Pro; core today views remain accessible so everyone can get value from the Home Screen. Real-time monitoring • Live power and energy totals, with updates driven by Fox Cloud (typically every 2–5 minutes for live readings-see in-app help for detail). • Battery charge/discharge and state of charge. • House consumption and grid import/export. • Environmental context and inverter work mode awareness. • Support for multiple devices across linked Fox Cloud accounts. Analytics & insights • History across day, week, month, and year with interactive charts for generation, consumption, and flow. • Self-sufficiency and self-consumption insights where data is available. • Peak generation and operational signals to understand performance. • Flexible date ranges for deeper analysis. Notifications • Alerts when inverter work mode changes. • Daily, weekly, and monthly generation summaries via push. • Configurable preferences and delivery windows. • Email option for summaries where enabled. Financial tracking • Configure energy rates for import, export, and standing charges. • See costs, credits, and net position over time. • Financial context in notifications where rates are set. Solar forecasting • Generation forecasts with setup for system capacity, tilt, and orientation. • Tomorrow’s outlook and peak timing; sunrise/sunset style planning aids. Energy flow • Interactive diagram of power between solar, battery, home, and grid with motion that reflects live status. • Tap through for more detail on each part of the system. Built for privacy & reliability • AES-256-GCM encryption for stored API key material on the server. • Sensible caching for speed and offline resilience. • Designed so your energy data stays yours. Great for • Fox ESS owners who want depth without clutter. • Households optimizing self-consumption and bills. • Anyone who checks their system multiple times a day-now from the Home Screen. Start monitoring today and keep your energy story in view-on the web dashboard and on your iPhone. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 5.20.1 · Updated August 15, 2026
Modbus Support Set up the optional Fox ESS Modbus Bridge for faster live telemetry in Check My Solar and Today view updates every 10 seconds. Community leaderboard Compare your solar stats with other Fox ESS owners. Opt in from Leaderboard in the sidebar to share generation, battery, and efficiency metrics, browse global and country rankings by month or year, and copy a public share link for friends. Grid outage alerts When your inverter detects a grid power loss or restoration, Check My Solar can send you a push notification. Emergency Power Supply (EPS) status also appears in the energy flow diagram and device view, so you can see at a glance whether your system is running on backup power. Forecasts can now use regional weather models - UKMO, ICON, GFS, and others - matched to your rooftop location. In forecast settings you can tune DC efficiency and max inverter AC power to better match your real-world output.
App privacy
The developer, Jack Pearce, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: App Functionality
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