Wacchi
Your Mac's charger wattage, live in the menu bar
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Wacchi keeps two numbers in the menu bar: the watts your Mac is drawing from its charger right now, and below it the most that charger can give. It doesn't drop to 0W when you stop charging at 80%, because it reads what comes in to the whole Mac rather than into the battery. Open the menu to see the charger's name next to what it is actually giving, so a 96W charger stuck at 60W points you at the cable or the port. Records nothing. A free, open-source WattsConnected alternative.
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PH · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Productivity
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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Yes A lightweight macOS menu bar utility built in Swift that queries native IOKit / AppleSmartBattery power management APIs to read charger wattage.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 213 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #124 of 214 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
- WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables · hn · 2026-05-01 · 566 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Voltyn · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- WattMate · ph · 2026-10-03 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Kombucha · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- bSaver · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- WhatCable · ph · 2026-05-24 · 266 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Battery Orbit · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- BatteryBud for Mac · ph · 2026-10-10 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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