Voltyn
See your Mac's live power use from the menu bar
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Details
- External ID
- 1253791
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Voltyn
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3258772542988956
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Voltyn shows how much power your Apple Silicon MacBook is using right now, in watts, right in the menu bar with a 60-second trend. Open the details window for 60s, 1h, 1d and 7d history, input/system/battery power flow, adapter capability, estimated battery health, temperature and cycle count. A medium desktop widget shows the last hour. Missing data is never shown as zero. Everything stays on your Mac. US$1.00 one-time, no subscription. macOS 14+.
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop system utilities and cleaners
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- menu bar power consumption monitor for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a native macOS menu bar app with charting is straightforward, but reading low-level Apple Silicon power metrics requires private or low-level IOKit/SMC C APIs that AI assistants often struggle to bridge accurately.
What it would actually take: A real version is written in Swift with SwiftUI/AppKit interfacing directly with macOS IOKit, Apple SMC, and `IOReport` private frameworks to read real-time power rail data in watts. The hard part is reverse-engineering Apple Silicon's undocumented power monitoring channels and handling sandbox/permissions across different macOS and M-series hardware architectures.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 184 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #104 of 185 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.
- WattMate · ph · 2026-10-03 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- ThermPort · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Volura · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables · hn · 2026-05-01 · 566 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- mectrics · ph · 2026-07-31 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Little Workroom · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Cyluma · ph · 2026-09-30 · 87 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- WhatCable · ph · 2026-05-24 · 266 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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