jolt helps laptop users understand what’s draining their battery.
It provides real-time insights into power consumption, process energy usage, and battery health—all in a clean, themeable TUI.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Battery Status — Charge percentage, time remaining, health, and cycle count.
- Power Monitoring — System power draw with CPU/GPU breakdown.
- Process Tracking — Processes sorted by energy impact with color-coded severity.
- Historical Graphs — Track battery and power trends over time.
- Themes — 10+ built-in themes with dark/light auto-detection.
- Background Daemon — Collect historical data even when the TUI isn’t running.
- Process Management — Kill energy-hungry processes directly.
Website: github.com/jordond/jolt
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Developer: jordond
License: MIT License
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