Energy Bar

Completely superfluous but kinda nice battery meter replacement. FREE | TINYURL.COM/TLA63-ENERGY

Some people are very fanatical about their phone’s battery life, daring not to leave the house unless the little battery icon is satisfactorily full. Energy Bar will presumably appeal to those among us who incessantly monitor their remaining lifeline, as it creates a small colour-coded bar at the top of the Android screen indicating both how much charge is left and, if your phone is plugged in, at what rate it’s charging. You could probably chalk this app up as yet another useless-app-that-offers-functionality-you-alreadyhave, and to be honest, aside from aesthetics and some more minor (and rather vague) graphical information, that’s exactly what it is. It’s nice to know how much your phone has charged since you plugged it in, and at roughly what rate it’s charging, but that’s about where the novelty ends. There’s a ton of different animations you can choose between for the Energy Bar, and the colours can be personalised to suit whatever fancy home screen you’ve got set. No doubt a useful app for the battery-oriented anal retentive, but hardly a must have.