Juicy - Mac Battery App
Beautiful Mac battery alerts, health insights & charge limit
Details
- External ID
- 1190361
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Juicy - Mac Battery App
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- July 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 228
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.41284403669724773
- Tags
- Mac, Menu Bar Apps, Apple
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
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".
Enrichment
- Theme
- personal health and wellness trackers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mac battery monitoring and alerts
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 267 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #152 of 268 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 254 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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