The best battery health apps for MacBook
Two different jobs share this name: seeing how worn your battery is, and slowing the wear down. Here’s which app does which, and what macOS already tells you for free.
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Best for The clearest view of battery health, for your Mac and your iPhone or iPad.
- Current vs design capacity, cycle count, age, temperature and charge rate at a glance.
- Reads iPhone and iPad batteries over USB, and saves readings so you can watch wear over time.
- Plus adds Wi-Fi device readings, a lifetime analyzer, SSD stats and low-battery notifications.
- Shows health; it doesn’t limit charging.
- Needs macOS 12 or later.
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Best for Actually slowing battery wear by capping the charge, for MacBooks that stay plugged in.
- Free charge limiter: stop charging at, say, 80%, and a discharge mode to get down to it.
- Pro adds Heat Protection, Sailing Mode, Top Up, Calibration Mode, scheduling and sleep control.
- Apple Silicon and many Intel MacBooks; one license covers up to three Macs.
- Most of the useful extras are Pro.
- Not a health dashboard; pair it with something that shows capacity.
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Stat SpaceOurs
Best for Battery health alongside the rest of your Mac’s stats, including which apps are draining it.
- Free: capacity in mAh vs design, cycles, condition, battery temperature and charger watts.
- The negotiated charger wattage (e.g. 94 W · 20 V · 4.7 A) and live input power in the Devices tab.
- Top energy apps now, and energy share per app since you unplugged (Pro).
- AirPods left, right and case battery levels.
- No charge limiting; use AlDente for that.
- Doesn’t read iPhone or iPad batteries.
- Apple Silicon and macOS 14+ only.
How we chose
We split the field into apps that measure health (coconutBattery, Stat Space, iStat Menus) and the one that changes how the battery is charged (AlDente). Each pick works on Apple Silicon MacBooks and is maintained in 2026. We left out charge limiters that have been archived or abandoned.
Check battery health without an app
System Settings: open System Settings › Battery and click the (i) next to Battery Health. You’ll see the condition and maximum capacity as a percentage, and the Optimized Battery Charging switch.
Terminal, for the raw numbers:
# Cycle count, condition and maximum capacity
system_profiler SPPowerDataType | grep -E "Cycle Count|Condition|Maximum Capacity"
# Design capacity vs what the battery holds now, in mAh
ioreg -rn AppleSmartBattery | grep -E '"(DesignCapacity|AppleRawMaxCapacity|CycleCount)"'
AppleRawMaxCapacity divided by DesignCapacity is the real health figure. macOS rounds its own percentage, so the two can differ by a point or two. For the full walkthrough, see how to check MacBook battery health.
Which one should you pick?
- You want to know how worn it is: coconutBattery, or the built-in check above.
- Your MacBook is on the charger all day: AlDente, to cap the charge.
- You want battery, charger and energy-by-app in your everyday monitor: Stat Space.
- You already own iStat Menus: its battery module is plenty.
Many people run AlDente alongside a monitor: one controls charging, the other shows what’s happening.
Where Stat Space fits
We make Stat Space. It reports health, but its more useful battery feature is answering why the battery is draining: the top energy apps right now, and with Pro, each app’s share since you unplugged. It also shows the wattage your charger actually negotiated, which explains slow charging from a weak USB-C brick. It doesn’t limit charging, and doesn’t try to.
We make Stat Space, so weigh our pick accordingly. Prices and features as of November 2026; spotted something out of date? Email [email protected].
Questions
What is a good battery health percentage on a MacBook?
Apple considers a battery normal until it drops below 80% of its original capacity. Anything above that is fine; below it, macOS shows Service Recommended.
How many cycles does a MacBook battery last?
Apple rates modern MacBook batteries for 1,000 cycles before they reach 80% capacity. Many go well beyond that in practice.
Should I limit my MacBook to 80% charge?
If it’s plugged in most of the day, yes, it reduces wear. macOS’s Optimized Battery Charging does a softer version automatically; AlDente gives you a fixed limit.
Why is my maximum capacity over 100%?
New batteries often ship slightly above their design capacity. It will settle toward 100% and below over the first months.
Know what your Mac is doing, without adding to it.
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