Chargie - phone charge limiter 4+
prolongs phone's battery life
Ovidiu Sandru
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Charge smarter. Sleep better. Keep your battery healthy.
Most phones today come with built-in battery protection features that limit charging — but they don’t always work the way you expect. These systems often wait until your battery hits 100% before stopping, or they rely on your daily habits, which can be unpredictable. They’re a step in the right direction — but they’re not enough.
Chargie goes further.
It’s a hardware and app combo that gives you full control over how and when your phone charges. By letting you choose your own charging limit and schedule, Chargie keeps your battery cool and unstressed all night — which significantly extends its lifespan.
How it works:
1. Order the Chargie USB device from chargie.org
2. Plug it between your regular charger and your phone cable
3. Install the Chargie app and connect via Bluetooth
4. Set the maximum charge percentage you want and the overnight level your want your phone to stay at.
5. Set the morning top up level and time you wake up.
Sleep soundly — Chargie handles the rest
Why it’s better than stock solutions:
- Works with any phone or laptop, not just select models
- Doesn’t rely on vague algorithms or machine learning
- Actively controls the power flow, not just battery software
- Automatically resumes charging before you wake up
- Reduces battery heat and wear throughout the night by reducing charging power or increasing it adaptively
With Chargie, your phone battery lasts longer, your device stays valuable for resale, and you help reduce electronic waste — all without changing your habits.
Shipping is fast worldwide so you can start protecting your phone right away.
Chargie hardware sold separately. Bluetooth required for app operation.
What’s New
Version 2.0.3
UI fixes: header text, hardware limiter, settings layout, improvements for small screens
Ratings and Reviews
Great Hardware and App
If you intend to keep your device for a long time, then looking after the battery is important, and this clever system helps me do that easily. You just set the threshold for when to stop charging, and the app tells the usb stick to stop charging your phone when it hits that threshold, limiting wear on the battery.
I do wish there was shortcuts integration, so we can trigger the app when a battery threshold is reached, in case the app has been closed in the background, but I try to leave the app open in the foreground to make sure it doesn’t stop controlling.
Data passthrough with CarPlay would also be a *huge* boon, but I realise there may be technical complications that make this more difficult.
Great App but you need the hardware too
What a great idea, to control exactly how the battery charges to increase it’s longevity.
You need the hardware charging dongle for it to work which are around £30-£35 each.
Some of the options in the app are a bit confusing, however the developer does respond to email questions and he’s told me there’s an update coming which will clarify things further.
So far though it’s working great and on multiple iOS devices too - recommended.
Works great for charging my phone
Works great, easy to setup (as long as you don’t want to use wireless or Apple cable!), Out of 5 I bought were only using 3 (2 kids have given up on Chargie for charging their phones as they use magnetic charger stands and not had much luck with it working with Chargie).
Trying to use ANY of the other settings you need a degree in as there is a SEVERE LACK of any help or info- haven’t been able to use the extra setting to control charge of anything else - either because app crashes when you start a recording or it just doesn’t do anything…
OVERALL happy with my purchases my iPhone 11 Pro battery was on 77% and after 3-4 months it still hasn’t dropped more.
App Privacy
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Information
- Provider
- Ovidiu Sandru
- Size
- 7.7 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Ovidiu Sandru
- Price
- Free