Juicy: the battery app Apple should have built
The most comprehensive battery app on the Mac, and the first one that treats battery data as something worth designing. Everything about your battery, in plain language, in an app that looks like it shipped with macOS.
Juicy started as a fix for one thing. macOS only warns you at 10% and 5%, and those warnings are so easy to ignore that people lose work to a dead MacBook every week. Juicy replaced them with alerts you actually notice: a beautiful notification pill that bounces onto your screen at any percentage you choose, with a screen glow and a sound loud enough to make you go find your charger.
It has since grown into the most complete battery app on the platform. Alerts at any percentage. Charge limiting with sailing mode, automatic discharge and a one tap top up. Per app energy use, so you can see exactly which app is eating your battery right now. Live health tracking with cycle count and temperature. Real health readouts for your iPhone and iPad over a cable. Battery levels for your AirPods, Magic Mouse, Keyboard and Trackpad, each with their own alerts. Everything battery related in one native menu bar app, and nothing that isn't.
The other half of the story is how it looks and how it talks. Mac battery utilities have historically been powerful and unpleasant: dense windows, invented mode names, numbers with no explanation. Juicy is written in Swift for Apple Silicon, follows Apple's design guidelines to the pixel, uses less than 0.1% CPU, and explains every number in plain language. There is no jargon to learn. You open it and you immediately know what your battery is doing and what to do about it.
"I am glad that someone with a design sense finally entered the battery app market. I don't want to learn their jargon terms or names of modes. Just tell me in plain language what's happening. They never fitted Apple aesthetics, they took the bigger pie of the market cause there were no elegant alternative. Thank you for filling the void."
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Made by Dominik Sobe, an indie developer who cares about software that is pleasant to use. Featured twice by Apple on the front page of the Mac App Store, rated 4.85 stars, and used by people who are simply tired of losing work to a dead battery.
Featured by Apple
Apps We Love
Juicy was featured by Apple already twice on the front page of the Mac App Store under "Apps We Love". The first time was for over a month during the busiest time of year (December 2025). This recognition highlights Juicy's exceptional design, user experience, and value to the Mac community.
Why I Built This
As a digital nomad (originally Austria now traveling the world), I love squeezing the last bit of juice out of my battery when working from coffee shops, planes, cars; you name it I worked from there. More often than not those places lack power plugs and so you keep on working on your thing, ignore the default MacOS battery alerts and suddenly...
...your computer starts lagging AF (I call it the lag of death) and boom. Your battery died while you were in the middle of getting stuff done. SUPER annoying.
Now Juicy nags me so much that I either actually run for my charger at 1% or I know to wrap up my work and touch some grass 😎 I built it for myself first because I was tired of that sudden death scenario, then realized it could help others in the same boat.
Key Features
🔔 Beautiful Battery Alerts
- Set custom alerts at any battery percentage (3%, 5%, 20%, 80%, or your choice)
- Beautiful native-like notification pills that feel at home on macOS
- Screen glow effects to grab your attention
- Custom sounds for each battery event
💚 Energy Use, Insights & Battery Health
- Energy use broken down by app, so you can see exactly which ones are draining you and drill into any of them
- Live snapshot of what is running right now, plus history across 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days with sparklines
- Smart callouts when an app starts behaving unusually
- Real-time battery health percentage, cycle count, temperature and voltage
- Every number explained in plain language, with Apple service recommendations when your battery is genuinely worn
📱 Multi-Device Battery Tracking
- Track AirPods, iPhone, iPad, Magic Mouse, Keyboard, Trackpad, and your Mac in one glance
- Connected devices ranked by battery level with color-coded bars
- Per-device low-battery and fully-charged alerts so nothing dies mid-call
- Unified "Now Display" for every connected device
🛡️ Charge Limit & Battery Care
- Cap charging at your chosen percentage to keep your battery in the healthy 50 to 80 percent band
- Sailing Mode avoids constant micro-charging churn
- Automatic Discharge brings you back down to the limit while plugged in
- One-tap menu bar override tops you up to 100 percent when you actually need it
- Your MagSafe cable turns green the moment you are held at the limit
🩺 iPhone & iPad Battery Health
- Plug in an iPhone or iPad to see its real battery health and cycle count
- Temperature and full lifetime stats, all inside Juicy
- No extra app and no guesswork, just the numbers your devices usually keep to themselves
🔋 Themeable Menu Bar Icon
- Compact iPhone-style battery display with percentage inside
- Sleek design that saves space in your menu bar over the default battery icon
- Smart color coding based on battery level
- Themeable icons to match your Mac's aesthetic
⚡ Lifecycle Alerts
- Notifications when charged above 80% to protect lifespan
- Alerts when unplugged or charger connected
- Custom sounds for each battery event
- Smart monitoring to extend battery longevity
🔌 Power Flow Visualization
- A live, animated diagram of the watts flowing between the adapter, the battery, and your Mac
- See exactly how much power is going in and out at a glance
🚫 Auto-Dismiss Notifications
- Automatically dismisses the default macOS battery pop-ups that interrupt you mid-flow
- No more manual clicking to close repeated low-battery nags
- Keeps your focus protected while Juicy handles the alerting with beautiful native-like notifications
How Juicy Compares
The Mac has good battery apps, and each of them is the reference for one job. Juicy is the one that does all of those jobs in a single native app, and does them in plain language. Here is an honest picture of where it sits.
AlDente
The reference for charge limiting, and it does that job well. Juicy covers the same core (cap, sailing, discharge, top up) and then goes past it: beautiful custom alerts at any percentage, live health tracking, and per app energy insights where you can drill into exactly which app is draining you.
coconutBattery
The classic for health readouts, including iPhone and iPad over a cable. Juicy reads the same data for Mac, iPhone and iPad, with a nicer presentation and plain language explanations so you actually understand what a cycle count or a health percentage means for your battery.
AirBuddy
Made device batteries in the menu bar a thing. Juicy tracks all of your devices now too: AirPods, iPhone, iPad, Magic Mouse, Keyboard and Trackpad, each with its own alerts.
iStat Menus
Still the one if you want a full system monitor that goes beyond battery. Juicy deliberately stays focused: everything battery, nothing else.
Technical Details
- Native Swift application optimized for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs
- Requires macOS 15.0 (Sequoia) or later
- Uses less than 0.1% CPU
- Minimal memory footprint
- No cloud syncing, all data stays local
Pricing
- No subscription. Pay once, own forever.
- 3-day free trial, no credit card required.
- Direct download: $14.99/year or $24.99 lifetime (full feature set)
- Mac App Store: $9.99 lifetime license, no subscription (fewer features due to App Store sandboxing)
- Setapp: included with subscription (full feature set)
- 14-day money-back guarantee (direct download)
A note on the Mac App Store version
Apple's App Store sandbox does not allow the low level access that some of Juicy's features need, so a few of them cannot ship there: the charge limit and battery care tools, auto-dismiss of the default macOS battery pop-ups, and the per app energy insights. Everything else, including the alerts, health tracking and multi-device batteries, works exactly the same.
The Mac App Store is still a great, convenient way to get Juicy, and it is a one time $9.99 license. If you want the full feature set, the direct download (or Setapp) is where it is at.
