GameBench is a name that should be familiar to gamers, game developers, journalists, content creators, and anyone who wants to monitor a device’s performance metrics while gaming. The company offers GameBench Pro, which is targeted at the same audience, but it costs thousands of dollars. To make this performance data more accessible, GameBench has announced a free app called GameBench FPS Monitor. We had exclusive pre-release access to this app, which is now available to all Android users via the Google Play Store, provided their device runs Android 11 or later.
As the name suggests, the GameBench FPS Monitor app lets users monitor frame rates in real-time while gaming, as well as detect junk and display battery temperature.
This information is displayed in a floating overlay that appears on the screen after completing the setup of the GameBench FPS monitor. Simply start the game, press the play button on the overlay, and the app starts displaying real-time FPS, junk, and battery temperature data while recording it.
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You can stop recording data from the overlay, after which you will be presented with session results including FPS charts, temperature trends, and total junk count. All your sessions can be accessed from the GameBench FPS Monitor’s dashboard, and if you want, you can share the session results as screenshots.
GameBench FPS Monitor displays performance data and session results
However, it’s worth noting that while GameBench advertises this app for monitoring gaming performance data, it surprisingly also works with non-gaming apps, including Instagram and our own official GSMArena app (download it here if you haven’t checked it out yet).
GameBench FPS monitor works with games and apps
Another thing worth mentioning is that GameBench has imposed a usage limit of 5 minutes per session, 20 minutes per day on the FPS monitor. Well, it’s a free app with no ads, and unlike GameBench Pro, you don’t need an account to use it, so some limitations are to be expected.
However, we find the 5-minute limit per session to be low, and we would prefer that GameBench imposed a 20-minute limit per day, as this would enable users to record data for longer periods. We spoke to GameBench about this and were told they would consider changing the current usage limit based on user feedback.
That said, one of our favorite features of GameBench FPS Monitor is that it doesn’t require root access to your Android device. We also like that unlike the GameBench Pro setup, it doesn’t require a PC to complete setup. Additionally, you do not need to keep the Android device connected to the PC via USB cable while running the FPS Monitor app, which is again required for GameBench Pro and is our only complaint with this paid tool. However, to use GameBench FPS Monitor you will need to keep your Android device connected to a Wi-Fi network.
We’ve been using the free GameBench FPS monitor for quite some time now, and for an app that’s completely free, has no in-app purchases, doesn’t show ads, and doesn’t require an account to use, we like what it has to offer.
GameBench FPS Monitor app supports English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese languages. You can download the app from Google Play Store here.