battery VS eul

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

Looks like https://github.com/gao-sun/eul

I can also add eul, which can be downloaded via brew in the terminal or by getting the latest version of the repo attached.

The only thing I could think of is eul maybe? Available on the App Store on GitHub.

I can recommend Eul, it is a free and open source tool that shows some of the stats like CPU Temp and RAM usage. It is also in the AppStore. https://github.com/gao-sun/eul

I use Eul. It's on GitHub and in the AppStore. https://github.com/gao-sun/eul It offers both menu bar and widget information and is compatible with 10.15 and up.

Alternative to Stats or iStat Menus: eul

Eul is nice and I’ve been using it for a while, but it’s no longer being maintained.