CTEK Battery Sense

CTEK Sweden AB

About this app

The CTEK Battery Sense app works with your CTEK CTX Battery Sense Monitor to tell you everything you need to know about your vehicle battery’s status, right there in the palm of your hand.

It’s been specially designed to help you monitor your battery’s performance quickly and accurately to keep you safely on the road and prevent breakdowns.

• Easy to install and use
• Quickly syncs via Bluetooth with your phone
• Continuous battery health monitoring for 12V lead acid batteries
• Easy to understand information about your battery’s charge status
• Instant readings of your battery’s voltage and temperature
• Manual input for battery capacities from 5Ah to 200A
• Default 5 day data readout on start up
• Zoomable graph data for specific days or periods
• Low charge alert

The CTEK Battery Sense app is easy to install and easy to use – simply sync the app with your CTEK CTX Battery Sense Monitor via Bluetooth for continuous battery charge monitoring 24/7 and easy to understand status reports.

And if your battery’s charge is running down to a critical level, the CTEK Battery Sense app will tell you when it’s time to reach for your CTEK battery charger.

For more information about Battery Sense visit www.ctek.com

Ratings and reviews

After the app was upgraded neither of my two sensors would connect to the app on my phone. I spent ages trying to get them to work. In the end I removed in-line fuse from the battery sensors, waited a minute, and then replace them. When I restarted the Bluetooth connection on my phone both started to work as they should. Hopefully, this information may help others overcome the frustration I've had with CTEK?

The app and the device seem to work well and I've used it for a little over a year. However, I have trust issues with it and the transmission of data. The app would not install on my Pixel 2 unless the location feature was enabled. I asked tech support about this and got a snarkey reply that they had no interest in my location. The Privacy Policy on the Play Store is not the current version. The one you see on the store is one page and says they do not collect data. Version 2 (May 2018) is two pages and says they do collect data but it is anonymized and not shared with any other parties. I have "Share anonymous data with CTEK" turned off but the Pixel still shows the app using between 1 and 2 MB per month of "Data". This might be Bluetooth which is fine or it might be cell data which is not. The phone does not indicate which. I like the app and the device. I don't trust what it does in the background however.

DONT GET THIS PRODUCT. App looks ok, but some updates make it worse and others make it better. It's like they don't test before releasing an update. Also the sender connects the first time, then it looses connection after a few days and won't give you any more readings. You can clear the app and start fresh, but it's a time consuming process and you loose your ability to track any change.

What’s new

Minor bug fixes and improvements