Polaris
Battery, range and charging status — always one glance away
Details
- External ID
- 1252731
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Polaris Neurosciences Hospital
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9492997648064999
- Tags
- Open Source, Cars, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
Description
Polaris is a tiny native macOS menu bar app for your Polestar: battery, range, charging status and time-to-full, refreshed every five minutes and every minute while charging. It notifies you when charging starts, finishes or faults — and nothing else. A desktop widget in three sizes reads what the app already fetched, so it costs the car nothing. AppKit, not Electron. Your password lives in the Keychain, it talks only to Polestar's own API, and there are no trackers. MIT licensed.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Energy & climate
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ev battery and charging monitor for drivers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native macOS menu bar app that queries the unofficial/official Polestar connected car API on a timer and renders standard system status notifications and widgets.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 40 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 41 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 252 days after the earliest competitor.
- Zolt - Tesla Companion App · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- DuoBar · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Cyluma · ph · 2026-09-30 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Polara: Pole Dance Tracker · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- status-trio · github · 2026-09-12 · 210 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- WattMate · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Battery Plus · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- EAutoKompass · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a analytics & bi tool for Legal yet.