Juicy replaces Apple's basic battery warnings with beautiful custom alerts at any percentage, complete with screen glow and sounds you can't miss. It also packs charge limiting, per-app energy insights, iPhone and iPad battery health, temperature tracking, and a themeable menu bar icon. One lightweight native Swift app instead of stacking AlDente, coconutBattery, and AirBuddy. Pay once, own forever. Featured twice by Apple as "Apps We Love".
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.
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 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.
I’ve really enjoyed using Juicy! It’s rare to find a utility app that’s both beautiful and genuinely useful. The custom battery alerts, charge limiting, and battery health features have all become part of my daily routine. It feels like a feature Apple could have built themselves. Wishing you an amazing Product Hunt launch! 🙌
This is one of those apps that everyone should install on their Macs by default 👌
Been using this product for a while now and really love it! Especially the last update, such a beautiful app and love the new little icon in my toolbar.
appreciate Nim! yeah luckily they have not done it (yet) hehe more space for Juicy to grow!
this just makes sense! apple should have done this, but very glad Juicy exists!
About Juicy on Product Hunt
“Beautiful Mac battery alerts, health insights & charge limit”
Juicy launched on Product Hunt on July 10th, 2026 and earned 205 upvotes and 32 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Juicy replaces Apple's basic battery warnings with beautiful custom alerts at any percentage, complete with screen glow and sounds you can't miss. It also packs charge limiting, per-app energy insights, iPhone and iPad battery health, temperature tracking, and a themeable menu bar icon. One lightweight native Swift app instead of stacking AlDente, coconutBattery, and AirBuddy. Pay once, own forever. Featured twice by Apple as "Apps We Love".
Juicy was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) and Apple (15.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 17.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Juicy?
Juicy was hunted by Dominik Sobe. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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