Juicy

Congrats on the launch! 🚀The 50-80% charge limiting got me, I always mean to protect my battery and never actually do it. Love that it's native and fully local too. I should give it a try!

I love the way how it notifies to charge the computer

I like the focus on staying native, lightweight, and local instead of adding another resource-heavy background app. Has building Juicy uncovered any surprising patterns in how different Mac models or Apple Silicon generations age from a battery health perspective? Congrats on the launch! 🔋

i've been using it for months now and it keeps getting better. looks sleek in my menu bar and i love the battery information it gives me. so much easier than digging for this info in the system preferences.

The "impossible to ignore" framing is the part I like, and it's worth naming why it works: most apps fighting to interrupt you are serving themselves, but a battery alert interrupts you for your own goal — not losing work — so the aggression is aligned instead of extractive. That's a different category from a nag, and it's why the 10%/5% system alerts fail: not urgent enough at the moment that actually matters to you. My real question is the charge-limit side. Third-party charge limiting on the Mac has historically meant going below the public API (SMC-level), which is exactly the thing that breaks on an OS point-release or behaves differently across Apple Silicon generations. Is Juicy using something Apple now exposes officially, or maintaining the lower-level path — and how much of your support load is "it stopped limiting after I updated macOS"?

I think this is a great product! Dominik has been responsive to questions and issues that have come up when going to the beta version of new Mac OS. He has been helpful in pointing me in the right direction. The product is comprehensive and well laid out, and it works! That's the big thing! I will certainly recommend this to all the people I know using Apple products. Juicy gets my vote for Product Hunt.

Very good idea + very good execution. If only I had a Mac lol Does it also deal with unused applications still running in the background that might impact battery life?

Finally a battery app that doesn't feel like a workaround. The custom alerts at 50% saved me from a dead phone on a hike, and I love seeing the energy hog culprit apps right in the menu bar.

the screen glow and sound choice on custom alerts feels really considered, like someone actually stress-tested the default 20% warning and thought "no, this needs to be harder to miss." nice craft.

Love that the alerts use screen glow instead of just a banner, makes the 20% warning feel intentional rather than punishing. Nice move bundling all those tools into one native Swift app instead of the usual stack of utilities.

I've been using the app for a while now, and I'm very happy with it. It would be great to add widgets to the home screen. Is this planned for the future?

I’ve been using Juicy from the first day and I love it. Continue the great work!

Replaced my usual stack of AlDente and coconutBattery with Juicy this week and the custom alerts at 50% actually feel polished instead of janky, plus the per-app energy insights showed me a Chrome tab was secretly murdering my battery.

Love the design :)

Hey Product Hunt! 👋

Dominik here, the indie maker of Juicy.

🤔 Why did I build Juicy?

Juicy exists because my MacBook kept dying at the worst moments. macOS usually only warns you at 10% and 5%, you can't change those levels, and the alerts are so easy to ignore that I kept losing work in cafes and on planes.

So I built battery alerts that are beautiful enough to notice and impossible to ignore: native-style notification pills, screen glow, custom sounds, at any percentage you want (3%, 15%, 80%, you pick).

💪 The most powerful Mac battery app

Since launching v1.0, Juicy has grown into the full battery toolkit for the Mac:

🔋 Custom alerts at any level, for your Mac and every connected device (AirPods, iPhone, Magic Mouse...)
🩺 Battery health, cycle count, temperature and voltage, one glance away in the menu bar
🔌 Charge limiting with Sailing Mode to keep your battery in the healthy 50-80% zone (your MagSafe LED even turns green at the limit)
📊 Per-app energy insights, so you finally know which app to blame for the drain
📱 Plug in your iPhone or iPad and see its real battery health, no extra app needed
🎨 A compact iPhone-style menu bar icon you can theme

It's a native Swift app (not Electron), most of the time uses under 0.1% CPU, and everything stays local on your Mac. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking.

Apple featured it on the Mac App Store as "Apps We Love" twice already, which still feels surreal as a solo dev.

You can try everything free for 3 days, no credit card. Licenses are one-time payments, no subscription, pay once & own forever

🎁 For Product Hunt: use code AJUICYLAUNCH for 20% off, this week only.

I'd love to know what you think and also what should Juicy do next?

I'll be here all day answering everything :) Ask me anything about the app, macOS battery quirks, or indie Mac development.