Load Shedding Notifier

Abisoft

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About this app

The top rated load shedding app

This app monitors the current Eskom load shedding status and notifies you if the power is scheduled to go off in your area.

Please note:
This app includes schedules for ALL Eskom supplied areas (nationwide) and ALL known municipality supplied areas (nationwide) that publish load shedding schedules. If your municipality is not included, please send an email to [e-mail] to get it added.

Key features:
• Real-time Eskom load shedding status monitoring.
• Offset status for City of Cape Town customers.
• Power grid status monitoring.
• Early warning of scheduled load shedding in your areas.
• Multiple areas can be configured.
• Configure quiet times for each area.
• View load shedding schedules for your areas for the following month.
• Very low data usage.
• Configurable alerts.

Disclaimer:
Abisoft is in no way affiliated with or a representative of Eskom or any of the municipalities. All schedules and load shedding status updates are obtained from the Eskom website (loadshedding.eskom.co.za).

This app is provided free of charge, and Abisoft will not accept any liability for losses arising out of the information presented in this app.

Ratings and reviews

Works fairly well once it's set up properly, but a recent update asked me for a rating and then kept prompting and not closing the app each time I tried to exit. The app is a bit liberal with notifications. On initial setup I keep thinking I've disabled tweet notifications, and then they're still somehow on. It would also be nice if the app supported a themed Material You icon, as supported on modern Android versions.

I first used the other, most popular app dealing with loadshedding. But somehow they gotten greedy and started pestering one with ads. So I switched over to LSN, and it's surprisingly good. Better than 'that' one now. Plus, it takes up less space on my phone's storage, and extremely light on data usage too. The push notifications from the app saved me several times from losing data on my computer. Despite Eskom jumping up and down through stages, this app makes dealing with that easy.

It helps to know when the power is going te be off. The notification part of the app just doesn't work. And when eskom announces that load shedding will begin at a certain time the app keeps saying 'no load shedding ' untill it starts. So you might not see that the power wil be out until it's off. However then you can still check whether it is in fact load shedding or not. I LIKE THIS APP.. It makes navigating this power crisis possible.

What’s new

6.0.5:
Updated Eskom areas.
Added offline indicator in app.
Fixed graph label colours in dark mode.

Other recent updates:
Added 24-hour graphical outlook to dashboard areas.
Updated Matlosana schedules and areas.
Updated JB Marks schedules and areas.
Updated Buffalo City schedules and areas.
Many UI improvements.
Updated Joburg City Power areas.
Updated Emfuleni schedules and areas.
Improved Tweet filtering.
Added power outage notifications.
Some performance enhancements.