The Chronicle is designed to be light. A typical morning session uses under 1% of a phone's battery. If you are seeing high battery use, work through this list.
Reduce motion
Settings → Accessibility → Reduce motion. The chapter renderer falls back to instant transitions instead of fades and parallax. This is the single biggest battery saver.
Disable audio narration
If you are not actively listening, turn audio narration off. It uses the audio decoder and keeps the screen awake.
Turn off real-time notifications
Settings → Notifications → Real-time updates. Disabling this stops the app from holding a persistent WebSocket open for live ticker events on the home screen.
Lower dark mode brightness
The Runic Void aesthetic uses near-black backgrounds. On OLED screens (most modern phones), full-brightness near-black is darker than half-brightness — and uses less power. Lower your screen brightness to taste.
Background activity
The Chronicle does not run in the background. There is no background sync, no background fetch, no background audio. If you see background activity in your phone's battery report, that is push notification handling, which is rare and lightweight.
Web-specific
On the web, the live ticker holds a long-poll connection while the tab is in the foreground. Hidden tabs pause the connection automatically.
Still seeing high drain?
Email us with your device model, OS version, and the battery report screenshot. We have shipped fixes for specific Android/iOS versions before.