Battery Life Saver - Max Your Battery Life FREE 1.2

Not knowing the nuts and bolts of your device can have some terrible repercussions. For example, a developer trying to sell you a battery saving app will say anything to get you to buy their product, despite the fact that said app might actually help drain your battery, rather than save it.

It’s not fair to say “we’ll let you judge for yourself,” since our mission is to highlight the good and the bad in the iTunes App Store and give you an early heads up, before you take the plunge.

Streamlined UI

Battery Life Saver has very graphics, animations, and an overall well designed interface. But it also tries to impress a little too much - always a warning sign that you might be using a non-tool.

It’s packed with ads, including references to the developer’s other apps, and it has a pretty Memory Boost panel which spins a wheel and claims it has purged your system’s RAM of unnecessary bits.

The tabbed view at the bottom of the UI and the neatly crafted tutorial are enough to convince you that this developer knows what it’s doing. But dive deeper into the functions and you’ll soon learn a different reality.

A battery drainer, not a saver

Battery Live Saver is nothing but a pretty package for an app that basically reads system information and displays it broken down by apps and processes. It doesn’t actually include any tools that help reduce drainage. Rather, it offers tips on how to optimize your usage and extend your mileage.

Since the battery charge level isn’t accurate (sometimes off by as much as 7%), you obviously can’t trust its other estimates, such as how much your running apps are draining. It’s safe to say that Facebook and Location Services will always be at the top of that list, but that’s common knowledge these days.

The Memory Boost tool is either a blatant lie, or something that acts only temporarily. In any case, we haven’t noticed any improvement in battery life on our test devices after using this feature. Moreover, it tends to freeze the app altogether more often than not.

Worse still, Battery Life actually causes the phone to consume more power by using Location Services, for one reason or another. Kind of beats the purpose of the whole app. The memory purging tool freezes the software, forcing the user to relaunch the app and start using it over again, which forces the CPU to work double shifts. There are many other things in there that will simply keep you stuck in the app, when you should be putting the iPhone to sleep.

What it does good (but not necessarily 100% accurate) is display the processes that suck a lot of power. The rest, as they say, is history. You’re more than welcome to check out its other features for yourself, but our verdict should be clear by now.

Add to watchlist:

BatterySystem info

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• SYS Activity Manager 5.0
• Relative Benchmark 2.45