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".
PH · launched Jul 10, 2026 · 228 upvotes (top 59%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Menu Bar Apps
- Apple
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Could you build this?
Partial The menu bar UI is simple, but battery charge limiting and hardware-level telemetry on macOS require interacting with low-level private IOKit / SMC interfaces and kernel helper daemons.
What it would actually take: A native macOS app written in Swift/Objective-C requires privileged helper tools communicating via XPC to read SMC registers and invoke Apple private IOKit APIs (`IOPMPowerSource`, AppleSmartBatteryKeys). Bypassing Apple Silicon charging controls (charge-limiting to 80%) requires reverse-engineered SMC write commands (similar to AlDente) which cannot be reliably implemented without systems-level reverse-engineering expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 664 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #329 of 665 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 223 days after the earliest competitor.
- BatteryBud for Mac · ph · 2026-10-10 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.65
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- Kombucha · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Sweatpea · ph · 2026-11-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Millpond: Water Tracker · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Cyluma · ph · 2026-09-30 · 87 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- bSaver · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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