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Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2013. Every day (except Sunday) from mid-July until late September, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a standout free or low-cost program. You can view a list of this year’s apps, updated daily, on our handy GemFest page, and you can visit the Mac Gems homepage for past Mac Gems reviews.
Everyone with a laptop Mac needs to know a handful of tricks to help squeeze a few more computing minutes out of a MacBook battery. Some may decrease the screen brightness, others turn off Wi-Fi, but how do we know if these actions are truly helping matters? Information really does equal power and Battery Health 2.5 provides the battery information you need to get all you can from your Mac laptop.
Available for the low, low price of free from the Mac App Store, Battery Health can reside in either your dock or your menu bar and provide realtime specifics of the state of your MacBook’s internal battery.
There are many battery status apps, but Battery Health has an attractive, easy- to-use interface and some features not found in similar apps, including OS X’s built-in battery monitor software.
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