Battery Monitor is an Apple Watch utility for checking iPhone battery status remotely.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Utilities
Sentiment
4.7
9 reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app to monitor charging devices without physical access, though the lack of updates limits its long-term utility.
For Apple Watch users who need to monitor their iPhone battery status remotely.
What does it look like?
Key features
Displays iPhone battery level and charging status on Apple Watch.
Provides swipe-up access to battery status.
How much does it cost?
The developer offers the app for free with stated intent to increase pricing post-update, though no updates have occurred since 2015.
Velocity
Dormant developmentperformanceShow more...
The app has been inactive for 4,094 days, far exceeding the threshold for a zombie classification. The last release focused on minor stability improvements, specifically addressing Apple Watch crashes and Glance update frequency. There is no evidence of ongoing development or support for the platform.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans thrilled. Users appreciate lightweight design and fast response times provide a satisfying experience for users on the watch and visual design language aligns with the watch interface, making the battery monitoring feel native.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Lightweight design and fast response times provide a satisfying experience for users on the watch
- Visual design language aligns with the watch interface, making the battery monitoring feel native
- Glance interface fails to refresh battery data consistently, rendering the quick-view feature unreliable for users
7 of 7 recent reviews analyzed · limited sample · Thrilled overall
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Competitive landscape for Battery Monitor - check your phone battery on your wrist
How's the Utilities market?
The app maintains a 4.67-star rating across 9 reviews, but the 11-year update gap signals a lack of active market participation. The absence of recent releases leaves it vulnerable to modern iOS system-level alternatives.
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Key takeaways for Battery Monitor - check your phone battery on your wrist
Where is it heading?
The market for third-party battery monitoring is shrinking as Apple integrates these features into the OS, leaving Battery Monitor exposed. The lack of updates since 2015 ensures the app will continue to lose relevance as iOS evolves, so the PM should focus on new ventures.
- The 11-year update gap prevents the app from utilizing modern iOS APIs, which erodes user trust and forces reliance on outdated glance functionality.
The SWOT
- Native-feeling ring interface aligns with Apple Watch design language
- Automated low-battery push notifications address top user request
Next best moves
Sunset the app because the 11-year update gap and system-level widget competition make maintenance unviable → reallocate resources.
The counter-intuitive read
The app's 11-year update gap is not a…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The app remains in a zombie state with no functional updates, but the competitive analysis has pivoted to highlight the threat of native iOS widgets replacing the app's utility.
Bottom line
Battery Monitor succeeds as a lightweight, native-feeling utility, but the 11-year update drought and modern iOS widget competition make it a sunset candidate, so the developer should prioritize new projects over maintenance.
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- [1] App Store, source
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