Battery Analyzer

Laptops are pretty handy if you need to work on the go, with some powerful configurations nowadays. Needless to say that it's best to make sure you have enough battery life when not near a socket. Everything running takes up energy, but you can use specialized applications like Battery Analyzer to keep an eye on battery life.

The application gets deployed on your computer in the blink of an eye, so you can shortly take it for a spin. In terms of visuals, the application stores everything in a simple design, with some graphical elements to show percentage, and a slider, as well as a table for logging all events.

You need to start the process manually, and this is done at the press of a button. No other preparations need to be made before the start, and once it's on, you can see a first entry telling the time of the log, percentage of battery, as well as the state of the charger, which can either be battery or connected.

There's also a slider which updates in real time to provide a visual representation of battery life, as well as percentage. Unfortunately, the application can't be minimized to the tray area for background monitoring, so you either keep it up at all times, or send it to the taskbar. There aren't any notifications to configure, so you need to be careful not to run out of juice.

Reading is done at a fixed interval, with no possibility to adjust it. The application reads the status once every minute, and you clearly see this by the attached time tag. You can access a graph view for better analysis, with options to save it as a BMP file. The log can be saved as well, with the only supported format here being plain text.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that Battery Analyzer is a straightforward method of analyzing battery life on the long run. It would have been useful to be able to send it to the tray area for silent monitoring, and some sort of alert when battery reaches critical levels. Overall, feels a little rough around the edges.