Cyluma turns your Mac’s battery into a responsive living landscape. Optimise your battery's health with best parctices. See charge, charging state, time remaining, battery health and energy use from a calm menu-bar companion.
Hey Product Hunt, I’m Niteesh, maker of Cyluma.
Macs give us precise battery information, but it is easy to ignore until the moment power becomes urgent. I wanted to explore a different kind of system indicator: one that lets you sense your energy state throughout the day, while keeping the practical details close at hand.
Cyluma is a macOS menu-bar companion that turns battery status into a living solar garden. The reservoir reflects charge, water follows energy flow and the atmosphere shifts as power changes. Behind the visual layer, it shows charge, charging state, time remaining, battery health, cycle count, temperature, energy mode and significant energy use.
I made Cyluma for people who spend long days working from a Mac and want a more considered relationship with the machine carrying their work.
I would especially value your feedback on three questions:
1. Does the living landscape make battery state easier to understand at a glance?
2. Which battery signal would you want surfaced more clearly?
3. Would this earn a permanent place in your menu bar?
to your first question honestly - I'm not sure it does, and that's the tension I'd flag. a percentage number is already about as fast to read as anything gets, a glance tells you "34%" instantly. a solar garden scene needs a second or two of interpretation (is that water level low because of charge or because of some other visual state?) before it resolves into the same information. the calm aesthetic is genuinely nice to look at, but the moment you actually need the menu bar - laptop's about to die, you need the real number now - a literal reading beats a mood board every time. I'd want the option to collapse straight to the number on hover or click rather than always parsing the scene first. small thing separately: "best parctices" in the description has a typo.
Can users customize the landscape style or is it designed to stay calm and minimal?
About Cyluma on Product Hunt
“Your Mac’s battery as a living, breathing landscape”
Cyluma launched on Product Hunt on September 30th, 2026 and earned 88 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #25 on the daily leaderboard. Cyluma turns your Mac’s battery into a responsive living landscape. Optimise your battery's health with best parctices. See charge, charging state, time remaining, battery health and energy use from a calm menu-bar companion.
Cyluma was featured in Mac (103.7k followers), Batteries (3.8k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 13.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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