Laptop Battery Monitor – BatteryBar
BatteryBar
BatteryBar is a simple, straight-forward, battery meter that monitors the status of your battery and displays your battery’s status in the taskbar.
BatteryBar constantly monitors the status of your battery as you use your laptop. As it monitors your battery, it keeps historical data on your battery and provide you with a very accurate estimate of how much time is remaining on your battery.While discharging, BatteryBar shows the percentage as a horizontal bar, colored green above 35%, yellow between 20% and 35%, and red below 20%. It shows the time remaining in hours and minutes. While charging, BatteryBar is blue to indicate charging, and displays the amount of time left until the battery is fully charged.
BatteryBar is free. Additional features are unlocked when you upgrade to BatteryBar Pro.
After installing BatteryBar, you can upgrade at anytime to BatteryBar Pro. After your purchase you will be given a license key that will unlock all the features of the Pro version without installing any new software.
Learn more about BatteryBar Pro
Features available in BatteryBar Free
Statistical Time Prediction
This is the most important feature of BatteryBar.
BatteryBar keeps historial data on your batteries as you use your laptop. That information is used to calculate a very accurate estimate of the time remaining on your laptop.
Windows reports a time remaining that’s very simple and fluctuates wildly from moment to moment.
Status popup show detailed information
about your battery’s status
Discharging
When you’re running on battery, BatteryBar shows the percentage bar in green, yellow, or red, depending on how much battery power is remaining. The bar displays the time left on your battery in Hours:Minutes
Battery is discharging with 2 hours, 46 minutes of battery life remaining.
Charging
When charging, the percentage bar is shown in blue to indicate charging, and the estimated time to full charge is shown. The bar turns black and shows “On A/C” when fully charged.
Battery is charging with 46 minutes until the battery is fully charged.
Other Features
- Vista style – The toolbar is using the same look and feel as the Vista taskbar buttons
- Statistical time prediction – BatteryBar monitors your battery and keeps a history of how long it takes for your battery to charge and discharges. That information is used to more accurately predict the life of your battery
- Translations – BatteryBar fully or partially supports 13 languages. Anyone may volunteer to translate BatteryBar to additional languages
- Detailed Battery Info – BatteryBar is now capable of collecting detailed information about your battery, including max capacity (mW), current capacity (mW), charge rate (mW), discharge rate (mW), and more.
- Automatic Update – BatteryBar will check for new versions at startup and automatically download the new version
Features in the Pro version
- Customizable themes to change the look and feel of BatteryBar
- Low battery and critical battery notifications and audio alerts
- Customize 20 settings, including changing the font, low battery warning levels, and more.
- Change the current Windows power scheme by right-clicking on BatteryBar
- New features in future versions that will only be available in the Pro version
Download
Current Stable Version: 3.1 build 60
BatteryBar Pro
Additional features in the Pro version
Low Battery Warning
BatteryBar monitors your battery life and when your battery power gets low, BatteryBar will notify you with a popup window and a sound. A second notification window appears when your battery reaches critical level.
A sample of the low battery warning popup
A sample of the critical battery warning popup
Customize Settings
BatteryBar Pro provides you with the ability to change 20 different settings so that you can customize BatteryBar to your own needs.
BatteryBar Pro Preferences window
Context Menu provides access to Preferences
Right click on BatteryBar to gain access to the Preferences window
