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Keep Your Costs in Check With DroidStats
Tested version: 3.0.1
Latest version: 3.5.3
Requires Android: from 2.1
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Summary
Getting your billing statement from your provider at the month is always stressful. What sometimes looks like your account number can actually turn out to be your monthly bill! Gone over the data plan limit? Used up too many weekends? Sent 57,382 text messages? How the hell did things get so bad?!!!
DroidStats helps prevent any unexpected charges by warning you ahead of time. While there's no such thing as free unlimited call, you can monitor your usage. Find out how this app can save you a lot of nerves and money in today’s test report.
Features & Use
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DroidStats includes all your calls, text messages and data traffic. Sparing you any hassle, the app shows you:
- How many minutes/text message you have left
- Which phone numbers are free for you to dial (i.e. hotlines, 1800 numbers, people on the same network or plan)
- What your data plan limit is
- How many every additional minute, text message and MB costs
- When the app should warn you about being close to reaching your limit
DroidStats collects all the information on its own. Using the widget or the app you can keep tabs on your phone bill.
Bottom Line: DroidStats isn’t as powerful as Call Meter 3G, but it’s definitely much faster and easier to use. It’s a great option for Android beginners because it includes all of the most important information all in one app. For anyone that needs more detailed information can try CM3 as an alternative.
Screen & Controls
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The configuration is really easy to set up. From the very start, DroidStats guides you through the process with a couple of tips. You start off with an empty screen, which means that you have to configure your settings before you can see your customized screen.
It only takes a couple of minutes: enter in your usage limits (if you have a plan with a limited number of minutes/text messages/data use), the cost of a minute/text/MB (outside of your limit), the billing increments (calls rounded up to the next minute or billed for every second?) days or numbers with unlimited calling – and you’re done!
Now you can see your phone usage live on the main screen. And it looks bright and colorful! Unlike other apps of this kind, DroidStats starts you off with a filled up bar that decreases with use. Everything green? Great, you still have enough minutes/texts/data left. Turned to yellow? That’s warning signal for you to watch your phone usage. Empty red bar? Party’s over – you’ve reached your limit! All that there is left for you to do is look at the bottom of the screen to see how much time you have till your next billing cycle.
Need more details? No problem. Just slide over from the Overview screen to the Calls, SMS and Data screens. Here you can check out your monthly or total statistics. Switching between the different screens uses cool animation, which you can turn off if you feel likes it’s using up too much power or slowing down your phone. Clicking an individual statistic shows your Top 3 in terms of calls and text messages. A cool additional feature: you can call or text a top 3 contact directly from the app by pressing on person’s pictures.
In the Data tab, you get details about your used data volume divided into mobile and Wi-Fi.
The entire app is filled with help and tips. Just click the little circled in triangle and select the “i” button to get an explanation for a specific statistic.
DroidStats also includes a couple of widgets: you can choose between 1x1, 1x2 and 1x3 sized widgets depending on the amount of information you want them to included. The widget is just a smaller version of your color-coded usage bars for your homescreen. In the upcoming versions, DroidStats are planning on improving their widgets to make them easier to configure, including transparency settings. Unfortunately, you’ll have to get the premium version of DroidStats to enjoy it…
Speed & Stability
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DroidStats runs smoothly and reliably – no crashes, lags or glitches!
Price/Performance Ratio
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DroidStats can be downloaded for free from the Market. This app deserves an additional fifth star for its great support.
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A Google User, May 1, 2013
Ok Seems good. Will give full review after abou 2months. This gives me time to assess it.
A Google User, Apr 28, 2013
Free call limit? Please add free call limit - I have 300 minutes to 3 numbers only and want to track this...
A Google User, Apr 24, 2013
The best data monitoring app (FREE)! :-D I have had this free version since I bought my first android smartphone! This is my only recommended app for monitoring stats. Data, texts, calls. Being able to set limits are important for both pay monthly and payg phones. I recommend this to all that want to monitor your stats. Only pay though if you have a need to monitor in depth and want more widgets. Personally id be happy to pay a couple of spondoodlies for this app it is perfect. There are tweeks that could be made to make it better. A*.
A Google User, Apr 15, 2013
Okay It doesn't retain stats for monthly/daily if phone gets reset, but it does for the total used data. Would be 4 or 5 stars if fixed.
A Google User, Mar 29, 2013
Counting free calls Can anyone tell me if it is possible for Droidstats not to include the minutes to a specific number I call for free. Can't check my limits without this option.
A Google User, Mar 23, 2013
Pretty sure it's inaccurate Calls and texts are fine but data usage is entirely wrong. Apparently I've done 10Gb on mobile data in 4 months, 7 of which were done today.
A Google User, Mar 20, 2013
Free numbers are counted I have a problem. I have chosen the numbers that I call for free but for some reason they show up in the outgoing paid minutes. Also the numbers that I call using viber show up also. Plz fix it
A Google User, Mar 19, 2013
Cool but not fully satisfied The call times shows only in minutes and rounds off seconds. This should be rectified to opt for second pulses. And for this reason I removed it from my phone.
A Google User, Mar 19, 2013
Useful, but outdated. It works great. Just update it with a new Holo interface and I'll be purchasing the Pro Key right away.
A Google User, Mar 19, 2013
Very helpful Thank you. The "mobile data" counter is not entirely accurate though. For me it underestimates the data used by ca. 10%. Nevertheless, any other data counters I've tried perform worse, so I'm staying with this one.
A Google User, Mar 10, 2013
Good but Love the app but it would be more accurate if it allowed me to set free numbers for incoming as well as out going.
A Google User, Feb 27, 2013
Didn't recognise free calls and messages About half my messages and calls are to numbers which are free for me. This program has an option to include this, but it didn't work for some of the numbers, so in the end the summary was completely inaccurate
A Google User, Feb 23, 2013
Good Does its job. Sometimes gets confused when widget shows remaining minutes. Have to refresh from restarting app.
A Google User, Feb 20, 2013
Random data showed Random incorrect data, when I open the app again, it corrects itself. Add billing period 'next 30days' from x day, as an option to billing day. Because february was less days and will not be calculated good. The new options for premium are awesome! This app pays off, it helps to control costs easily and save money
A Google User, Feb 11, 2013
Nice application This app is quite nice. Howevere, it does need to show last month stats...coz the carrier companys all over the world do not send the monthly bill till their computer systems has generated the customer usage reports for a particular month..so this is a must have in this excellent app.
Tested for 1 month spot on works a dream highly recomend