Most users would find this information useless but it’s there nonetheless should you need it. Here, you can see the capacity, the charge rate, and the battery wear for your laptop battery.
Hover your mouse over to the BatteryBar meter and a nice little information graph presents itself to you. Battery PercentageĪnother cool feature of BatteryBar is that it gives you a lot more information about your battery charge than Windows ever would. Simply clicking on it once will change that display to a percentage remaining instead. In the picture below, the battery meter is displaying the time remaining until my laptop goes dead. No need to hover your mouse to another icon. One of the best things about using BatteryBar is that the meter will be there displaying your battery life for as long as you keep it there. Immediately after installation, you will now see a new battery meter next by your notification area. However, I decided to opt out of some options such as the Floating Toolbar along with language translations. The nice folks from Osiris Development decided to give you a taste of what BatteryBar Pro can offer you by giving you a free 30-day trial! To activate the trial, simply right click on the BatteryBar meter after installation and select Activate 30-day Trial from the menu option.
Here is a chart depicting the differences between the free and pro versions of Battery Bar while more details can be found here: Features Comparison BatteryBar Free Version BatteryBar can be downloaded from here. The free version is perfect if you don’t need any of the extra bells and whistles like critical battery notification and theme customizations. There is a professional version of BatteryBar and interestingly, it’s one of those software’s where you the user get to choose the price to pay for it! As of this writing, you can decide to pay anywhere from a minimum of $4 to a maximum of $10 for the professional version of BatteryBar. With BatteryBar, the more you use it, the more accurate it is at its estimations. Also, it claims to better estimate your remaining battery life than Windows can because it keeps historical data of your battery. Fortunately, there’s not much to learn about besides the fact that it provides you with a much better battery meter when compared with the Windows default. However, if you find yourself in most situations using your laptop without it being plugged in, then it will do you good to learn about BatteryBar. BatteryBar by Osiris Development have been around for some time now so this is nothing new.
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