Battery Minder for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Snowgumby

  Does exactly what I need but...

  Five stars because I can set this to remind me to charge when my battery reaches 30% and stop charging at 80%. My only complaint is that the icon no longer shows at the top of the screen. It's just a blank space, but I can still click it and the functionality is the same. It just seems like this app needs an update.

  
  
• By 3glot

  Unintuitive UI

  Can't set the Charge Me Alert when plugged into charger and fully charged. Can't set Full Battery Alert to be less than 100%? I'll stick with Battery Monitor by Rocky Sand Studio

  
  
• By Brendte

  Great overall but needs one more feature: user configurable max charge

  I try to keep an eye on battery and drain it to 40%, recharge to 80%, and repeat. According to reputable sources such as Samsung and Computerworld, you maximize your battery's life if you don't charge beyond 80%. So, while this app does a great job of reminding me to start charging when the battery is at 40%, it only reminds me to unplug the laptop when the battery is at 100%. So, the only missing feature here is to give users the ability to configure the charge ceiling at which you are alerted to unplug the laptop, in the same way you can configure the floor at which you are alerted to plug in the laptop. Should be a simple thing to add, and it will make this app completely worth every penny. As it is now, it only does 50% of the job, since I still have to constantly watch my battery when charging so I don't charge it above 80%.

  
  
• By sonamdolma

  This is one of my favorite apps~ helps me conserve my battery capacity- BIG TIME!

  I used to erroneously “save" my Li-Ion battery by not using it- UGH! Using a brand new computer as little as possible with the plan of running the old one to the ground first ~Like keeping a fancy car wrapped up in the garage only taking it out on weekends. I was surprised, though, to see how much mileage I was still getting out of the old computer’s battery for a long time. And then I was taken aback to find that after after two years of babying the new Windows, so that the battery only had nine cycles of use on it, it had somehow lost nine percent of charge capacity, down to 91%! Since then I’ve educated myself about how Li-Ion batteries don’t like to sit around stewing in their own juices, but need good, exhausting workouts on a regular basis. (Same as me.) If it weren’t for Battery Minder, this would be just one more niggly thing I'd need to remember to do. In fact, I can see myself just forgetting to take it off the charger for stretches of time. But Battery Minder relieves me from having to think about this, so I just follow the alerts as they come. The unobtrusively small pop-up notification is perfect. I also like the melodic and friendly audio notification saying it’s time to recharge again. (It’s a different audio that alerts one to let the battery run on its own power. I’m not crazy about that particular sound- a little loud and harsh in the classroom when sharing a video with students. ~I haven’t figured out how to change the tone or to set the volume without changing the system volume.) Fortunately, the audio alert sounds even when the display is sleeping, which has many times saved me from accidentally allowing a deep discharge. So, my everyday experience with this product has been very positive. And, from my battery’s point of view, here is the result: After using it for another year now, in which time Battery Minder has helped me curb my charging habit, and going from only nine cycles of use to now 140 cycles charged, the battery capacity remains amazingly steady~ exactly where it was when the battery was a year younger and had 131 less cycles on it. It hovers around 91%, and in fact, more often I find it has actually gone UP to 92% charge capacity. Thank you Battery Minder. Too bad I had wrong Ideas about preserving battery health three years ago when I first got my computer. If I'd had my information right, I’d have been using Battery Minder from the start, and kept the charge capacity close to 100% for as long as possible. But I’m grateful to have found this userful app when there is still a lot of life to be had in this battery …When the day eventually comes that I do have to replace it, I’ll know how to start off on the right foot with a new one. Thank you to the developer(s) for this product, and for continuing to update. The current updates are great. Saving my percentage and reducing memory needs make Battery Minder even MORE convenient to use!

  
  

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