Battery Health - Monitor Stats App Reviews

I’ll keep this brief: this is a great app for monitoring your battery’s health/performance. I’ve always been frustrated with the inadequacy of Apple’s battery monitoring tools. This app is nearly ideal for keeping track of and understanding your battery’s behavior. A lot of users don’t think about their battery and use it as a ‘black box’, thinking they cannot affect it. Indeed, this app will assist you in developing better battery use & preservation habits. I’d give it 6 stars if I could.

Works really well, good detail, and super useful even without the power history feature (which is for pay.) Suggestions: * Give an option display % battery in the menu bar. Switch between %full vs time left with a mouse click. * When plugged in, display the estimated time until battery is full (rather than the inifity symbol).

There are a number of apps for monitoring battery health and current status. Battery Health (not yet upgraded) is a good one. It has more detail than anything else I have seen, including showing the actual charge and discharge rates so you can make your own estimates of time remaining. Its calculations of time remaining for different activities are a nice touch. I suggest two improvements. The first is providing specific information on which apps are using the most power. The data is available from Activity Monitor, and Apple’s own battery monitor provides this “Power Usage Information,” although not very well. The second is for electrical geeks - but this app is intended for geeks, and it claims to know about electricity. It measures the discharge rate in Watts and “mAh,” milli-Amp hours. mAh is wrong. Current is measured in milli Amps, with no hours. Just like you don’t measure power in “Watt hours,” but rather in Watts - which they got correct. One Watt for two hours is two “Watt-hours,” and 800 milliAmps for two hours is 1600 mAh. This error is common among people talking about solar energy. It’s like the difference between gallons and miles per gallon.

I really enjoy the functionality of this application. Interesting statistics such as battery health, number of power cycles, and battery temperature all help me better understand my power usage and health of my MBP. I am extremely disappointed however in the constant barrage of requests to "rate this app”, or to check out other apps from the developer. I’ve literally already purchased one of the referenced apps, “Disk Doctor”. It’s frustrating to consistently receive spam marketing telling me to purchase an application I already have bought. I’m hopeful that the annoying ads can be dialed back slightly, as I really do enjoy the functionality of this application.

This is a really great app. It gives a lot of stats for your battery. Well worth the install.

This app gives a lot of information on your battery: how it’s being used and what condition it’s in. I have the basic free version. It works great. It doesn’t hassle me too much about upgrading.

Finally a battery app that shows you everything you want to know, including the “usage” stat that for some reason Macs don’t give you natively. You’ll have to pay for this feature, but it’s worth it if you want to see how much usage your mac battery is giving you, much like the “Usage” stat in iOS devices.

Excellent application, gives a lot of useful information. Running the El Capitan beta now with no problems.

Must have. Works great, useful features.

There are plenty of battery apps out there, but none provide as much information as this one. Yet, it’s not in the way. It sits in the menu bar providing constant battery information just like most others. But, when you need more information all you have to do is click and it will provide you with all the information you will need regarding your battery. i.e. charge Cycles; battery health; detailed use time for surfing, music etc.

I like this clean little app. After having two logic boards inside of two different MBPs literally melt down due to overheating caused by the need for a new battery, I relish the privilege of knowing the status of my batteries. Now I can replace them before it’s too late!

My previous MAC Powerbook, wide body, lasted for over 6 years with one battery replacement, late in it’s life. My current MacBook Pro is 3.7 years old and is 91% healthy! I recalibrate the battery on about a yearly basis. It’s suggested that you do it more frequently but I’m very happy with my laptop’s current condition. The App is a great way to monitor your laptop’s condition.

Most importantly, it shows the Cycle count, of how many times your battery has been charged

Notifications, the key reason for me buying the add-in for this app, are not really working. They are often just non-existent. If you are looking for an application to help you extend/optimize the life of your battery (running it between 40% and 80%, for example) - this is NOT the app for you. I’ve conversed with support, but they have yet to ask for logs - so its either a known issue or not a priority.

Tells you everything you could want to know about your battery and more. Makes you think about the lifespan of your machine in a more quantifiable way.

The latest updates to Battery Health have established this product as the best-in-class battery monitoring app available for MacBooks. I have been using this app for the past 3 years, and what the developers have achieved is truly remarkable. If you want to keep your MacBook battery in tip top condition and monitor what your battery health levels and usage are, then you need to grab this free app and also invest in the Power History feature that not only gives you full charging/battery power/fully charged statisitics, but unlocks what is probably the most useful pro feature - Notifications! I now have the app notifiy me at 20% and 80% battery charge levels, and always keep my battery between this range. Doing this has helped me keep my Battery Health over 95%, which is quite remarkable considering my retina MBP is now 3 years old! This app has replaced the need for the default battery menubar icon… I just held down the CMD key and dragged it off the menubar! Love it :)

I just installe the app. it told me that my battery was much healthier than tha Mac Store led me to believe, and that I don’t need to change the battery yet. Thanks!

This app is great if you use it for class, homework, and games like me. I was at school at 91% and on it all day. Came home and was still on 91%. I see a big difference in my badery. This app is great I highly reccomend it.

This is a awesome app. here are some things that are cool about it: It is at the top of your desktop, so it can be out of you way, it shows so much information about your battery, so you can be constantly checking on your pattery and see how its doing, my favorite part is how it shows your battery capacity whether it is 5400 mAh…etc. There is only one thing that isn’t accurate, there is a little place where it saays your computer temperature, and is is like always 30.6C. Even if when I feel my computer, and it is BURNING HOT. But otherwise….IT’S A GREAT APP! Keep it up FIPLAB!!!

It is a very detailed app that you could know almost everything about your computer’s battery health.