Wattage is an application designed for monitoring the health and status of your power devices.
It displays quick data regarding battery capacity, energy metrics, and device information through a clean, modern GTK 4 + libadwaita interface.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Monitor a variety of statistics regarding your battery.
- View battery health, voltage data, model information, manufacturing details, and device status.
- Support for multiple batteries or power sources.
- Interface built with GTK 4 and libadwaita.
- Written in Vala, which is fast since it compiles to C.
- Designed for Linux systems with sysfs battery information.
Website: github.com/v81d/wattage
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Developer: v81d
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Wattage is written in Vala. Learn Vala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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