BatteryBud for Mac
Battery levels and history for every device, in one click
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Details
- External ID
- 1269522
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- BatteryBud for Mac
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 4
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.92
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
Description
BatteryBud shows every battery you own in your Mac menu bar: this Mac, other Macs, iPhone, iPad, AirPods left bud, right bud and case, Beats, keyboard, mouse, gaming controllers, UPS, and more. It keeps a charge history, health and cycle count for each one, and your iPhone and iPad report over Wi-Fi after a one-time cable setup. It records each charging session, how long it took and how fast it charged. Pay once, use forever, a year of updates included.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macos menu bar utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- battery monitor for apple devices
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While a menu bar UI is simple to create, querying low-level battery states, Bluetooth HID devices, and pairing with iOS companion apps over local network requires non-trivial macOS private/system APIs and iOS networking daemon setups.
What it would actually take: A native Swift/macOS menu bar app using IOKit/IOPS APIs for Mac and connected peripheral batteries, CoreBluetooth/IOBluetooth for wireless devices, and a local Bonjour/multipeer sync protocol with a companion iOS app. The hard part is reverse-engineering battery telemetry for non-standard accessories and handling background network sync reliably on iOS due to Apple's background execution limits.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 519 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #92 of 520 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- Juicy - Mac Battery App · ph · 2026-07-10 · 228 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Voltyn · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Cyluma · ph · 2026-09-30 · 87 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- WattMate · ph · 2026-10-03 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables · hn · 2026-05-01 · 566 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- BatteryOnPC · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Battery Plus · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Audio Priority Bar · ph · 2026-10-05 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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