Thinking about trying Tasker

[chucks118]

I am thinking about buying Tasker is it as good as they say? I have read that it may be a battery hog is this true? I would like to here from you tasker users whats the good and bad is it worth the money?


Thanks for your comments

 

[Saltine713]

It is a battery hog, as it is constantly running.

 

[shinew]

It is a battery hog, as it is constantly running.

that's not true. It's entirely depending on how you use it. The app itself doesn't run constantly, it just sits in the background till the context you've set called for.

 

[gfinockio]

I find with about 16 profiles running (2 that are location-based), it eats about 10% in a 24 hour period.

 

[drdoom]

Tasker doesn't even get recorded on my battery usage list, and I have about 15 profiles running. For what it does, the battery drain is well worth it.

 

[shinew]

Tasker doesn't even get recorded on my battery usage list, and I have about 15 profiles running. For what it does, the battery drain is well worth it.

Exactly, same for me when monitored using both battery widget and systempanel.

Have a look here on how tasker uses power: Tasker: Power

 

[CodeMonkey]

Tasker doesn't even get recorded on my battery usage list, and I have about 15 profiles running. For what it does, the battery drain is well worth it.

Well said.



I have about 40 profiles enabled calling a set of 57 tasks (some nested), including some that do some fairly battery heavy work (e.g. location & weather forecast retrieval using reverse geocoding, driving a large home screen widget created using Zoom).
Typically I don't see Tasker in my battery usage at all, on occasion it shows up at 2%.

When I first started using Tasker I was seeing higher battery usage (5 to 7%), so I rewrote most of the location based tasks using the guide Location without Tears
This helped me reduce the battery usage.

That said, I would probably still use Tasker even if the battery usage was 5%; it is the first app I load on a new phone and my first port of call when tweaking my phone (e.g. I use it to work around a peculiarity of my car's bluetooth kit when connecting).

Have a play with the 7 day trial download from the author's website here.
Take a look in the usergroup forum here for some ideas of what you can do with it.