Battery Orbit
app that manages your MacBook's charging
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Battery Orbit keeps a plugged-in MacBook between limits you choose (20–90% by default): it charges to the top, runs on battery to the bottom with the cable still in, and repeats. Three modes (Custom Orbit, Natural Flow, Desk Hold), Charge to 100% once for travel days, calibration you start yourself to keep the % honest, and Insights showing time in range day by day. Pause gives normal charging back instantly. One-time price, no account, no subscription.
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PH · launched Oct 23, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%)
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- Prosumer
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- Commercial product
- Mac
- SaaS
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See all 301 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial The scheduling UI and menu bar app are vibe-codeable in Swift. Controlling charge limits on Apple Silicon depends on low-level SMC or private power-management interfaces that differ by model and macOS version, which is hard to get right without deep platform knowledge.
What it would actually take: Build a Swift menu bar app with a privileged helper daemon that reads battery state through IOKit and writes charge-control values. Those values come from SMC keys that vary by Mac model and OS release, so they must be reverse-engineered and tested per device. Expect to handle code signing, notarization, and safe rollback, which is where specialized macOS systems expertise matters.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #81 of 302 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- bSaver · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Kombucha · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- BatteryBud for Mac · ph · 2026-10-10 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Polaris · ph · 2026-09-17 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Wacchi · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Voltyn · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Battery Level Alarm · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Juicy - Mac Battery App · ph · 2026-07-10 · 228 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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