Top 15 Granola Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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Download Granola and help save the world. Granola is free software that can reduce the energy consumption of your PC or laptop up to 35%. With one click, make your computer environmentally friendly.

Most effective power saving software for Linux and Windows
Sophisticated workload prediction improves upon built-in CPU governors
Works with your existing power management settings
Lightweight userspace daemon
Runs in the background
No noticable performance loss

1. Edison

Edison Edison puts you in control of your PC energy usage by letting you:* Set your schedule - Tell Edison when you use your computer most.* Save a little or a lot - Use the Edison efficiency slider to choose the level of energy savings you want to achieve.* See your......

2. PowerPlug

PowerPlug PowerPlug offers PC power management solutions that allow organizations to monitor, control and reduce their PC power consumption, saving up to 60% on PC network energy bills. The company’s leading product - PowerPlug Pro, allows organizations to reduce their power consumption and carbon footprint without interrupting end-user productivity or IT......

3. Care Taker

Care Taker Carbon Control Software's Care Taker - Allowing companies and users to focus on their business, confident that the software is optimising PC energy usage and reducing wastage day and night.......

4. Power Scheme Switcher

Power Scheme Switcher This is a very simple utility that exposes an icon in the system tray and allows you to quickly change the Power Plan Scheme from there.Features- Shows the active power plan with an icon and a tool tip in the system try - Right click the icon to get the......

5. Verdiem

Verdiem Verdiem delivers enterprise-class IT energy management & efficiency solutions for PCs, Macs, and Cisco EnergyWise devices – providing greater energy savings and IT efficiency. It helps you accurately measure IT device utilization, enforce policies for greater IT efficiency, and analyze results to optimize savings.......

6. SmartPower

SmartPower SmartPower is a Windows service that saves energy (and money) by hibernating and resuming your Windows PC according to configurable rules.......

7. Faronics Power Save

Faronics Power Save Faronics Power Save is an effective and reliable energy conservation tool that accurately manages energy consumption throughout ain a multiple workstation environment and significantly cuts down on energy expenditures. Power Save offers flexible options for determining when a computer is inactive (by CPU usage, hard drive usage or by running......

8. SetPower

SetPower SetPower is advantageous for both the home and business user. For home users, you want a machine that is awake and ready to go when you are. You may use your home machine for a few hours in the morning, before you leave for work/your days activities, and for a......

9. PowerSlave

PowerSlave Save power, Save money -Save the planet. PowerSlave is FREE for personal use and it helps control the power scheme used by Windows.It allows you to define your working day start time and end time. It then lets the user choose one power scheme that will be used during the......

10. Lights-Out

Lights-Out An add-in to Windows Server that saves electricity (and therefore money).Lights-Out can put a Windows Home Server into suspended mode or hibernation and resume the system on:• user-defined events (calendar event, Wake-On-Lan) or• an activity-based ruleset (runtimes on calendar, Windows clients, network devices, backup time window, remote access, processes, files,......

11. MeterHero

MeterHero MeterHero takes your energy data and gives you stats to help you save money and energy.It's very simple to get started:Connect - Link your utility accounts to MeterHero.Track - View your water and energy usage on your dashboard.Motivate - Join a community with your friends.......

12. Laptop Mode Tools

Laptop Mode Tools Laptop Mode Tools is a package of userspace scripts for Linux kernel "laptop mode".......

13. Power Manager Professional

Power Manager Professional Automate, manage, and reduce the running costs of your customers' Macs with Power Manager Professional.Power Manager Professional will save you and your customers time, energy, and money.With Power Manager Professional you can create and schedule sophisticated energy saving events that automate your Mac, and reduce your running costs. Events can......

14. Battery Mode

Battery Mode Replaces Windows default battery indicator to a more powerful and useful one.It provides backlight control, easy power scheme selection, detailed battery information and a lot of handy features for customization.Advanced Power Scheme Selection* Battery Mode allows you to change current power scheme right from the battery popup window.* Unlike the......

15. Powertime

Powertime Buy Prepaid Electricity, airtime and Pay your bills in 1 click, 24/7, from anywhere.Features:. Buy Prepaid Electricity and Airtime. Pay bills. Purchase History. Usage graphs. Virtual meter. Refer a friend. Energy saving tipsOnly supports South African meters.Supported areas/networks are listed on https://www.powertime.co.za/iphone-faq.html .Please send your comments and suggestions to......