Zzz Alternatives

Zzz is described as 'Custom power management utility for Windows that is designed to eclipse built-in power management systems. In other words, Zzz provides a more customizable experience for power management and offers more control than built-in power management for Windows PCs' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are nine alternatives to Zzz for Linux, Flathub and Windows. The best Zzz alternative is TLP – Linux Advanced Power Management, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Zzz are PowerTOP, Auto-CPUFreq, Laptop Mode Tools and RMClock.

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  1. TLP – Linux Advanced Power Management

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    TLP brings you the benefits of advanced power management for Linux without the need to understand every technical detail. TLP comes with a default configuration already optimized for battery life, so you may just install and forget it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

    • TLP – Linux Advanced Power Management is the most popular Linux alternative to Zzz.

    • TLP – Linux Advanced Power Management is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Zzz.

    • TLP – Linux Advanced Power Management is Free and Open SourceZzz is also Free and Open Source
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    PowerTOP

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    PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management. In addition to being a diagnostic tool, PowerTOP also has an interactive mode where the user can experiment various power management settings for cases where the Linux distribution has not...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. Auto-CPUFreq

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    An automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux that helps to improve battery life in laptops.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. Laptop Mode Tools

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    RMClock

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    RightMark CPU Clock Utility (RMClock) is a small GUI application designed for real-time CPU frequency, throttling and load level monitoring and on-the-fly adjustment of the CPU performance level on supported CPU models via processors power management model-specific registers...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • RMClock is the most popular Windows alternative to Zzz.

    • RMClock is Freemium and ProprietaryZzz is Free and Open Source

  7. Jupiter Applet

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    Jupiter is a light weight power and hardware control applet for Linux. It is designed to improve battery life of a portable Linux computer by integrating with the operating system and changing parameters of the computer based on battery or powered connection.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  9. Power Management Utilities

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    pm-utils is a small collection of simple scripts that handle suspend and resume of the computer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    power-profiles-daemon

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    power-profiles-daemon offers to modify system behaviour based upon user-selected

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    TLP UI

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    The Python scripts in this project generate a GTK-UI to change TLP configuration files easily. It has the aim to protect users from setting bad configuration and to deliver a basic overview of all the valid configuration values.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
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