Episode 65 - 3 Android OS Task Killers [Discussion]

[marilee]

You asked for App Task Killers for Android, and Ron is here to give you the rundown on 3 apps! Advanced Task Killer, TasKiller and TaskPanel. Which kills tasks the best?

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[cameroncook]

Although the larger widget of taskiller looks great I think it takes up too much of what we are trying to accomplish in using these programs, to free up ram.

Advanced Task Killer accomplishes the same end goal while being the most ascetically pleasing, also having the ability to check off which running programs to kill in one swoop (all, some, or none).

[slightly]

astro file manager it works great

[rottnkorpse]

I agree with Ron's review. The Widgets for TasKiller are the best but TaskPanel has added a new widget that is a single icon that does the same thing that TasKiller's does which is a Kill All however it doesn't have any slick way to show you how much memory is being used or how many apps are running like TasKiller does...but it gets the job done in a small widget so that's great.

TaskPanel's Auto-Kill is very very slick and that is what makes me like it the most. The Widget for Kill All is nice however I would like a widget just to launch the app rather than just killing them all, so I use the large 4x1 and even though it may not be as good as TasKiller's 4x1 I think TaskPanel is overall the best choice especially since it is completely free unlike TasKiller's crippling of features.

[hpmoon]

The host (consistently inaccurate; see Episode 121 too) says that Task Panel UNIQUELY is the only app that has an auto-kill function. Just moments before, we see TasKiller's auto-kill option. Sloppy.

[adrianmak]

Any comment on advanced task manager ?

[dh4645]

Originally Posted by adrianmak

Any comment on advanced task manager ?

i'm using this and advanced task killer at the moment. not sure if i should get the free one they reviewed or not since these seem to work fine for me.