# mhaeuser/Battery-Toolkit

Control the platform power state of your Apple Silicon Mac.

Repository: https://github.com/mhaeuser/Battery-Toolkit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/battery-toolkit
Language: Swift
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-09-25T21:36:56+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 43, release rhythm 30, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1465, "days_push": 342, "days_rel": 387, "gap_med": 83, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2480, forks 101 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:55.246176+00:00)

## What it is
A macOS menu bar application for Apple Silicon Macs that controls the platform power state, allowing users to set battery charge limits and disable the power adapter in software. It helps reduce battery degradation by preventing the battery from always sitting at full charge.

## Use cases
- limit mac battery charging to 80 percent
- keep my macbook battery from staying at 100%
- disable power adapter without unplugging to discharge battery
- recalibrate macbook battery
- stop charging my mac at a custom threshold
- prevent short charging bursts on my apple silicon mac

## When to choose
- you have an Apple Silicon Mac and want a hard charge limit Apple's Optimized Charging doesn't offer
- you want to discharge or recalibrate the battery without physically unplugging
- you want manual menu bar control over charging behavior

## When to avoid
- you have an Intel Mac, which is unsupported
- you need battery management on iOS or iPadOS devices
- you need charging limits honored across cold boots or reboots

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, developer-tools
- domain: apple-ecosystem, hardware, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: battery-management, apple-silicon, menu-bar-app, power-management, macos-app, macos

## Member repositories
- mhaeuser/Battery-Toolkit (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:55.246176+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:28:15.973159+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mhaeuser/Battery-Toolkit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:55.246176+00:00, sha 3cd177e22f5f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.