battery VS AlDente-Charge-Limiter

Apple took this out of Mac OS somewhat recently. You can try to rely on their power management, but given battery decay is a common reason to buy a new machine I don’t trust them really.

If you have an Apple Silicon Mac I can recommend Battery [1]. It can keep your Mac at 80%, and even force discharge while plugged in to get there. It’s a CLI and status bar utility, I love it.

[1: https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery]

After trying Battery (https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery, it is Electron UI, big in size), I created batteryKid (https://github.com/alaneuler/batteryKid) with native Swift as a coding exercise out of curiosity.

Otherwise, some other things I like is keeping my battery at 80% with this app: https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery

FYI, on Apple Silicon Apple included a firmware-level "hard-switch" to limit the charge to 75/80% only. It was discovered by marcan while working on Asahi and in my experience it's much more convenient than the built-in ML-based solution (and also less hacky and bloated than AlDente).

See this discussion on GitHub[0] for the explanation and this snippet[1] for easy use.

[0] https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery/pull/163

Another AlDente alternate (which I use already) is Battery.

I just keep the charge always under 80% https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery

But not sure if its the same utility I use https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery Both commands: battery adapter off

Anyways, al dente didn’t do the job for me. I found this https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery it also discharges and keep it to whatever percentage you feel comfortable with with. So now it’s always on 80, which I prefer.

https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery free and does the same

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/406957/can-i-tell-...

Looks like there's a decent CLI tool for it, but being a Mac guy I'm of course going for the slick GUI app https://apphousekitchen.com. The developer came up with a really clever incentive for free-app users to upgrade to the Pro version: make the icons for the free version unbelievably ugly. (The design of the app itself is excellent)

2. Aldente

"Special care" on OS X is to use Al Dente.app, which limits the charge at 80% so as to not damage the battery.

https://apphousekitchen.com/

I use an app called AlDente that allows you to cap your battery's charge https://apphousekitchen.com/

download AlDente and your battery will thank you. If you have it plugged in most of the time limit the charge to 80% and AlDente will stop charging beyond that.

Just a shame keeping the battery at 100% will degrade its health over time. I would love an option to keep it at 50% most of the time, just like my MacBook with AlDente.

It's not possible to set a hard limit in macOS without third party utility like AlDente [1].

I was referring to the built-in "Optimised battery charging" feature. When this is active and has decided it will cap charging at 80%, you get a "charge to full now" option in the battery menu.

[1] https://apphousekitchen.com

I was told to get this app to help maximize battery life as it keep it within 30-80% charge instead of 100%. Would this app help prolong the battery life?