Apptracker: The saviour’s here

App: Battery Doctor

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Os: iOS, Android

Features: Battery Doctor is an energy saving app for handheld devices. It allows the users to check the battery charge status and track the processes and applications that are draining battery life. One can easily modulate the settings of the device from the phone like brightness, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and mobile data. 

Pros/cons: Users can define power saving profiles and schedule them automatically. The downside is that sometimes it kills the processes, which are required for fast loading later on. 

Rating: 4/5

App: DU Battery Saver and Widgets

Os: Android

Features: The app has one-touch power optimization and an easy to use control widget. It keeps a tab on the battery draining apps and keeps cleaning them in the background. The additional battery minutes that are gained through this exercise are reflected to the users. 

Pros/cons: ‘Modes’ feature of this app is especially useful. Using this feature one can pre-set the settings, which can be customised to suit particular needs. Users can choose to pick appropriate screen brightness, screen timeout period, Wifi and Bluetooth settings at different places. There can be more than one mode for different times of the day depending on the usage. The app has a unique feature of how battery can be charged in the most efficient way. 

Rating: 4.5/5

App: BetterBatteryStats

Os: Android

Features: A detailed app, it checks all the battery draining apps, activities and processes. It also checks apps (having partial wakelocks) that do not let the phone sleep completely thereby draining the battery even when the device is not in active use. 

Pros/cons: The strength of the app is in providing more information to users regarding the activities and processes that keep running in spite of an inactive screen.

Rating: 4.5/4

App: Battery ManagerPro

Os: iOS

Features: This app understands that the battery is at a premium these days. The two areas of focus for this app are battery maintenance and battery management. Through maintenance feature, the app tries to keep the health of the battery in good condition. Through battery management, the app shows device’s total battery percentage and break down into how much time can be spent in various activities with the current battery charge. Users can toggle sliders to choose how much time can be spent on specific activities depending on users’ priorities. pros/cons: The app comes with a price tag of Rs 120.

Rating: 4.5/5

App: Carat 

OS: Android, iOS

Features: An app doing the same as others do, but with a difference. It measures the device’s battery level, running apps, CPU and memory utilization and then sends the same to the Carat team’s cloud servers for analysis. After a week’s analysis, the app prepares an action list of suggestions for improving battery life. The solutions are customised for the specific device and requirements.

pros/cons: Carat itself uses almost negligible energy and the more it is used, the better are the recommendations. The team, which works on the analysis, shares the bug data with the developers of the apps so they can work for the optimization of the problematic apps.

Rating: 5/5