Carat: The brilliant app that increases your battery life by showing what other apps to kill.  Built by scientists at UC Berkley, this app quietly runs in the background, collecting anonymous data and providing tips on how to help your battery life. (For example, “Kill Skype: Expected improvement 1h 15min 42s.”) Worried about how much battery life will be wasted by this app? The team says, “Carat uses almost no energy, and the longer you use it, the better recommendations get.”

Carat: The brilliant app that increases your battery life by showing what other apps to kill. 

Built by scientists at UC Berkley, this app quietly runs in the background, collecting anonymous data and providing tips on how to help your battery life. (For example, “Kill Skype: Expected improvement 1h 15min 42s.”) Worried about how much battery life will be wasted by this app? The team says, “Carat uses almost no energy, and the longer you use it, the better recommendations get.”

Source TechCrunch