Turn battery data into useful answers.

What's true right now, what's using the power, and how it's changing over time.

True battery health

Unrounded health, raw capacity, cycle count, service condition, and the facts macOS leaves out.

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Live power and apps

Watts in and out, temperature, voltage, charger details, and your own processes ranked by power.

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Sleep diagnosis Pro

See what happened while your Mac slept: charge lost, wake count, wake reasons in plain English, and what's holding it awake right now.

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History and runway Pro

Follow health over months, see the pack's own per-cell detail, and project when the battery may reach Apple's 80% service threshold.

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Bluetooth accessories

See keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and AirPods levels free. Pro forecasts how long is left and warns you before they die.

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Reports and export Pro

Create a one-page battery report or export the underlying history as CSV or JSON.

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Read-only, unprivileged, and open source.

WhatBattery does not install a daemon, kernel extension, or charging controller. It reads Apple's battery and power interfaces, and when a value isn't available, it says so rather than guessing.

  • No root access
  • No automatic battery-data uploads
  • No invented values when hardware reports nothing
  • Source available on GitHub
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Start with the battery numbers macOS hides.

The essential Mac view is free. Pro adds history, forecasting, deeper diagnosis, and connected devices.

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