battery VS bclm

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

BCLM can set charging thresholds on Intel Macbooks https://github.com/zackelia/bclm

If when you’re using your mac always plugged in or docked, I recommend using BCLM so it limit your maximum percentage of charge. E.g I set mine to charge maximum at 58%, if will not charge beyond that.

You can, with Battery.sh . The version for Intel Macs is BCLM.

Constantly keeping the battery at 100% can be an issue, but modern versions of macOS allow you to limit charging. There are also utilities that work on older OS versions (they just issue an SMC command to achieve the same thing), like this one: https://github.com/zackelia/bclm

If you have an Intel-based laptop, you can use https://github.com/zackelia/bclm to set a "max" charging value.