Juicy - Mac Battery App
Beautiful Mac battery alerts, health insights & charge limit
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Juicy - Mac Battery App - Beautiful Mac battery alerts, health insights & charge limit

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Juicy replaces Apple's basic battery warnings with beautiful custom alerts at any percentage, complete with screen glow and sounds you can't miss. It also packs charge limiting, per-app energy insights, iPhone and iPad battery health, temperature tracking, and a themeable menu bar icon. One lightweight native Swift app instead of stacking AlDente, coconutBattery, and AirBuddy. Pay once, own forever. Featured twice by Apple as "Apps We Love".

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Hey Product Hunt! šŸ‘‹ Dominik here, the indie maker of Juicy. šŸ¤” Why did I build Juicy? Juicy exists because my MacBook kept dying at the worst moments. macOS usually only warns you at 10% and 5%, you can't change those levels, and the alerts are so easy to ignore that I kept losing work in cafes and on planes. So I built battery alerts that are beautiful enough to notice and impossible to ignore: native-style notification pills, screen glow, custom sounds, at any percentage you want (3%, 15%, 80%, you pick). šŸ’Ŗ The most powerful Mac battery app Since launching v1.0, Juicy has grown into the full battery toolkit for the Mac: šŸ”‹ Custom alerts at any level, for your Mac and every connected device (AirPods, iPhone, Magic Mouse...) šŸ©ŗ Battery health, cycle count, temperature and voltage, one glance away in the menu bar šŸ”Œ Charge limiting with Sailing Mode to keep your battery in the healthy 50-80% zone (your MagSafe LED even turns green at the limit) šŸ“Š Per-app energy insights, so you finally know which app to blame for the drain šŸ“± Plug in your iPhone or iPad and see its real battery health, no extra app needed šŸŽØ A compact iPhone-style menu bar icon you can theme It's a native Swift app (not Electron), most of the time uses under 0.1% CPU, and everything stays local on your Mac. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking. Apple featured it on the Mac App Store as "Apps We Love" twice already, which still feels surreal as a solo dev. You can try everything free for 3 days, no credit card. Licenses are one-time payments, no subscription, pay once & own forever šŸŽ For Product Hunt: use code AJUICYLAUNCH for 20% off, this week only. I'd love to know what you think and also what should Juicy do next? I'll be here all day answering everything :) Ask me anything about the app, macOS battery quirks, or indie Mac development.

Ā Congrats on a new lauch Dom!


The landing page looks amazing like always :)

Maker

Ā thanks man!!!!

this just makes sense! apple should have done this, but very glad Juicy exists!

Love the design :)

Maker

Ā thanks! 惄

Replaced my usual stack of AlDente and coconutBattery with Juicy this week and the custom alerts at 50% actually feel polished instead of janky, plus the per-app energy insights showed me a Chrome tab was secretly murdering my battery.

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Ā šŸ™ happy to hear Kamile! :)

The "impossible to ignore" framing is the part I like, and it's worth naming why it works: most apps fighting to interrupt you are serving themselves, but a battery alert interrupts you for your own goal ā€” not losing work ā€” so the aggression is aligned instead of extractive. That's a different category from a nag, and it's why the 10%/5% system alerts fail: not urgent enough at the moment that actually matters to you. My real question is the charge-limit side. Third-party charge limiting on the Mac has historically meant going below the public API (SMC-level), which is exactly the thing that breaks on an OS point-release or behaves differently across Apple Silicon generations. Is Juicy using something Apple now exposes officially, or maintaining the lower-level path ā€” and how much of your support load is "it stopped limiting after I updated macOS"?

I like the focus on staying native, lightweight, and local instead of adding another resource-heavy background app. Has building Juicy uncovered any surprising patterns in how different Mac models or Apple Silicon generations age from a battery health perspective? Congrats on the launch! šŸ”‹

Respect for keeping it native Swift instead of Electron. A battery monitor that eats 200MB of RAM just to tell you your battery's low would be a little embarrassing haha

Been using this product for a while now and really love it! Especially the last update, such a beautiful app and love the new little icon in my toolbar.

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Ā thanks for all the feedback Mitch! really helped shape the product.

This is one of those apps that everyone should install on their Macs by default šŸ‘Œ

Maker

Ā agh stop it... ok don't stop it. thanks man! :)

Iā€™ve really enjoyed using Juicy! Itā€™s rare to find a utility app thatā€™s both beautiful and genuinely useful. The custom battery alerts, charge limiting, and battery health features have all become part of my daily routine. It feels like a feature Apple could have built themselves. Wishing you an amazing Product Hunt launch! šŸ™Œ

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Ā happy customers = happy me -`įƒ¦Ā“-

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