System & Network

Battery widget for Windows

The Windows tray icon gives you a percentage if you hover it. This widget puts the number where you can see it, adds how long you have left on battery or until full, and shows the figure laptop makers would rather you did not look at: current full capacity as a percentage of the design capacity, which is the honest measure of how worn the battery is. When the charge drops below your threshold while unplugged you get a Windows notification, once, rather than a nag every minute. On a desktop with no battery the tile simply says so.

Free · Windows 10 and 11 · No account required

Battery
61%

62m to full

Health 94%

The real Battery widget, running live. Drag it around.

What it’s for

What Battery is good for

The everyday jobs this widget was built to handle.

Know whether the next meeting fits in the charge you have before you leave the desk

Watch battery health drift down over the years and decide when a replacement is due

Get one clear warning at 20% instead of discovering a dead laptop

Settings

Every Battery setting

7 options, set per widget - so two copies of Battery on the same dashboard can behave completely differently. Highlighted values are the defaults.

Style

ringbaricon

Show time remaining

OnOff

Show health

OnOff

Advanced

Low threshold

Any number · starts at 20

Notify on low

OnOff

Alert sound

defaultchimebellbeepyour own clip

Show cycles

OnOff
Setup

Getting Battery on your desktop

  1. 01

    Install

    Download and run the installer. No account, no sign-in.

  2. 02

    Add the widget

    Hit Add Widget, or press Ctrl+K and search for it by name.

  3. 03

    Make it yours

    Drag it where you want, resize it, and set the options below.

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