Polaris
Battery, range and charging status — always one glance away
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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.
PH · launched Sep 17, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 5%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Energy & climate
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Cars
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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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 : 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 237 days after the earliest competitor.
- Battery Orbit · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Pomelo · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Battery Level Alarm · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Zolt - Tesla Companion App · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Emoji Battery Icon Status Bar · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- EV Savings: Charging Log · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- DuoBar · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Cyluma · ph · 2026-09-30 · 87 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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