Portland General Electric 4+

It generally works, but clearly a wrapper on the web app. UI is clunky and non-native. With autopay on it still gives the option to pay with no indication that auto pay is scheduled. Not the worst utility app in the world, but it’s one of the cases where the website is actually better. In generally I appreciate the breakdown in usage, by the hour even.

I try to go into this app once a month and it seems that there’s always an ‘update’ it forces me to make. I normally avoid updates in general since I know that there’s a good chance they screw something up, but this app forces you to make them. Shockingly, after I updated the app today it wouldn’t let me type in my password properly - not good. I won’t be using this app again. //// Review update: worst app ever. Just tried signing in again for the first time in months (of course I had to update the app first.) Asked me if I wanted a bunch of notifications — I don’t care, I just wanted to check something real quick. After I get through the tedious list of notifications, the app won’t load. Honestly stunning how bad of an app this is. I’ve used a lot of companies’ apps — this is the worst one. It hasn’t saved me time; it’s taken up my time

The app is fictional enough. And really, in most months I wouldn’t really need to use it ever as my PGE Bill is automatically paid from my bank account every month, but my power has been out for 4 days now so I’ve had to check the status of my outage multiple times a day and the size of the service calls/responses have been massive. iOS tells me that the PGE app has used more data than Instagram, and that’s wild because Instagram has photos and videos and the PGE app is likely just some JSON or XML. Obviously some overbloated service is sending some massive payloads. Feel bad for the developers that work on the app.