BatteryBot Battery Indicator
BatteryBot monitors and shows your battery charge level (percent) as an icon in your status bar, with how much time you have left, temperature, health, voltage, and time since plugged / unplugged in the notification area. It now also has a 1x1 app widget. The Pro version also has user-configurable alarms, logs, mA current information, and a large (4x1) widget.
Give it a try -
- it's free and open source! BatteryBot Battery Indicator requires NO special permissions whatsoever. It's an excellent and complete solution to your battery needs.
Features:
• No ads (why would you want a battery app with ads?)
• Exact battery level in the task bar
• Or hide the task bar icon, keeping notification in tray — or turn notification off completely and just use widgets
• Multiple icon set options
• Automatic time-remaining estimates based on recent usage
• Small (1x1) circle desktop widget
• Notification (with status bar icon) is now optional -
- can be used as just a desktop widget
• Very lightweight (please email me if you think otherwise, and I'll help you figure out what's wrong — I promise this app will not drain your battery!)
• Shows 1% increments even on most Motorola devices
• Well-tested and supported on all major versions of Android (2.1 through 7.0; Eclair through Nougat) and form factors (small phones, medium phones, large phones, 7-inch tablets, 10-inch tablets).
• Open source
For those who want more than is offered in the free version, or for those who just like to support small, independent developers like me, the Pro version remains lightweight while packing in many useful features:
Pro-only Features:
• Alarms (fully charged, charge above X, charge below X, temperature above X, or health failure)
• (On devices that allow it) Icon colors (including fully configurable green, amber, red, and black icons)
• (On most devices) Electric current (mA / milliamp /milliampere) reading to/from battery on supported devices
• Large (4x1) desktop widgets
• Battery logging. You can log the battery state (charge, status, voltage, temperature) and browse the logs on the phone or export to CSV.
• Control the notification priority on Android 4.1+ (For example, you can set to "minimum" to hide the icon but keep the notification in the tray.)
• Lots of configurability of behavior and appearance.
• The charging indicator (the bolt under the number that indicates when the device is being charged) for the sets that have it is optional in the Pro version.
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Follow the Google Plus group for announcements and occasional polls about the app:
https://www.google.com/+BatterybotInfoAndroid
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Requires no special app permissions!
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Please email me if you have any questions or comments.
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Here's the BatteryBot business model / philosophy:
1) Ads are annoying. For some apps, ads might make sense, but a system utility should not have ads.
2) The free version should be simple but useful; it shouldn't feel crippled.
3) Some people choose to purchase the Pro version because they want extra features, some because they want more customization, and many because they just want to say "thanks" for the free version and support small, independent developers like me.
Category : Tools
Reviews (28)
Been using the app for over 10 years and I love how basic it is. It does exactly what it needs to do. My latest phone does have one problem that I don't know is caused by the app or device itself. The main notification will go away constantly when the phone is locked and off. Reopening the app brings it back. Sometimes it even goes away while the phone is on and in use. Please tell me either how to fix this issue or possibly make an update to fix for everyone. Galaxy a10e
Excellent app! Very user-friendly. The only thing that would make it even better is if it displayed the current charge level right on the app icon itself all the time, or in some other conspicuous place on the home page, so that the app wouldn't always have to be opened, just to see the percent charge number... received a prompt response to this! I added the widget from BatteryBot, and it worked perfectly! Now this app is PERFECT! It definitely seems to be the best battery app out there now!...
Please allow the option to disable the battery meter at the top of the screen because some phones already have this option. And it is redundant to have this notification twice. Also, the older version allowed you the option to disable this feature. Please bring it back. You can turn off the main notification Channel but then you not only turn off the battery indicator in the notification bar, but you no longer get information in the notification panel about battery temp and remaining power.
Works well so far. Numbers are black when background is white and white when background is black without having to change them in settings. I would give 5 stars if app had the option to use larger numbers.
This app would be much better if you removed the % symbol and made the numbers larger, as I'm vision impaired this app is not very useful the way it is at the moment.
Nice that it shows how long until battery is fully charged. I like the look. No ads is the plus I wanted. This kind of app/widget shouldn't have ads. Simple, clean, uncluttered, and has more stuff if you want it for a reasonable price. Excellent work.
The notification can be denied by Android settings but it still shows app is running in background. Not for previous version though. I was able to disable in bot's settings itself. Rest is ok, I am conscious weather it uses lot of power and processing running in background even after closing.
Excellent replacement for my phone (Umidigi) which has no on screen battery check, (ie) you have to pull down from top to see anything, but this app enables a widgit which I can see at a glance, also all the info I need to see like charging indicator & how long to full charge by pressing widgit, well done developers 10 stars.
Not very good. When I look at battery percentage in pull down bar, it gives me a false reading everytime. So when I think I've got enough power and then tap on widget, the real amount comes up. Which is misleading and inconvenient as I could walk out of the house thinking I've got enough juice, only to find out that I'm running low.
It's a nice application, indicating the battery percentage. It indicates the charging, the timing at present taking for the charge and the time to be taken for the remaining charge. A very very useful application. Thanks to the developer as well as Google for this beautiful app.
Cool. Does as it says. I use it for my BOINC app to see where my battery temp's are, as it doesn't compute past the temp I set it to. I have ideas to improve it further: 1) show °C with °F, not one or another, 2) let the status bar show the battery temp as an option, as I don't need the % level - my phone already shows that.
I like it it useful but it has a somewhat annoying bug which continously make my phone think it's a notification. When the sound is on for notification it just plays the notification sound constantly. Could you guys fix it?
Once used a long years ago. Not bad if you make widget more customizable. For instance choice of removing pertencate sign %, even the circle. Changing color according to battery levels and charging or charged statu.
I've had issues with my phone on charger, assuming it's charging but it's not so this app has helped a lot so I can easily see if it's indeed charging from a home screen widget. Thank you.
Updated to the latest but now unable to turn off the notification bar where there used to be an option to turn it off. Noted the developer's response to other user but still can't find how to minimise or turn it off in the latest version
It's exactly what it says it is. I stupidly installed it thinking it'd show my bluetooth device's battery, which it doesn't do, but that's my fault, not the developer's. But if Google Play recs this to you as a bluetooth battery indicator, this isn't the app for you.
I've been using this app for years and I've always found it to be reliable. Best of all it's open source and ad-free which is a GOOD THING. Plus it supports Android Pie which is great.
It's ok. It used to show apps battery usage, but now just defaults to what your phone says (in pixels case this is useless). Other than that it's just for the battery percentage.
Everything was great until the last few days when the widget started chewing up my battery. Removed the widget & it's ok now, but miss the easy viewing of the widget as opposed to opening the app every time.
Widget has stopped working with recent updates... Keep seeing XX% in the widget. Could you fix, I rely heavily on this and will need to find something else if this isn't fixed soon.
used for years. Small and perfect.
Simple indicator of current battery status, not full of unnecessary stuff.
great handy and simple to use app. I like the simple widget design, better than using phone's default battery meter in the notification section.
Has been immensely useful to me when Power Shade wasn't working perfectly, despite showing some information I don't care about (probably estimates of health, temperature and voltage and an estimate of use time left)
Absolutely the best battery indicator. NO ADS,and it shows clearly the application that drain your battery.
Sometimes it gets stuck at a level (incorrect reading) until you tap open on it. But I will still use it as its better than other widgets
Very tiny and useful. I couldn't find any other app that shows time since last charge. But this shows that info and the widget looks cool
Prior to version 12.0.0 the battery circle was dark with white text... now it's reversed, and there's no way to change bit back... distressing, like something Microsoft would do. Give us a way to make it esthetically pleasing so it matches home pages. Glad it's free and functional. No ads, doesn't hog the battery.