# JasonWei512/EnergyStarX

🔋 Improve your Windows 11 device's battery life. A WinUI 3 GUI for https://github.com/imbushuo/EnergyStar.

Repository: https://github.com/JasonWei512/EnergyStarX
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/energystarx
Homepage: https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NF7JTB3B17P
Language: C#
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: battery, battery-life, windows-11, windows11, ecoqos, winui, winui-3, winui3
Last push: 2026-02-08T01:37:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 70/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 66, release rhythm 57, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1437, "days_push": 207, "days_rel": 208, "gap_med": 46, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1217, forks 23 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:01.434486+00:00)

## What it is
Energy Star X is a WinUI 3 GUI for the EnergyStar tool that improves Windows 11 battery life by using the EcoQoS (Efficiency Mode) API to throttle background applications. It runs in the system tray and never throttles foreground apps to preserve user experience.

## Use cases
- improve windows 11 laptop battery life
- throttle background apps to save power
- reduce system heat on a laptop
- enable efficiency mode for background processes automatically
- run a battery saver tool at windows startup

## When to choose
- you use Windows 11 22H2+ on a modern Intel, AMD, or Qualcomm mobile processor
- you want a friendly GUI instead of the command-line EnergyStar tool
- you want automatic background throttling without touching foreground apps

## When to avoid
- you run Windows 10 or older Windows 11 builds where EcoQoS support is limited
- you have a desktop or older mobile CPU where gains may be minimal
- you need fine-grained per-app throttling rules beyond what EnergyStar offers

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, configuration-management
- domain: windows, developer-tools
- platform: windows
- tags: battery-life, ecoqos, winui3, efficiency-mode, background-throttling, system-tray, desktop

## Member repositories
- JasonWei512/EnergyStarX (main) score 70

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:01.434486+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:17:06.644588+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/JasonWei512/EnergyStarX (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:01.434486+00:00, sha d1e2f3831c80)
  - homepage: https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NF7JTB3B17P (fetched 2026-08-29T12:24:48.963545+00:00, sha 57a13f9bc4c8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.