The Juicy Alternative for notch battery alerts
Juicy replaces Apple's bare battery warnings with notch-style alert pills at any percentage, plus battery health, cycle count and temperature, charge and unplug alerts, a charge limit, per-app energy drain and batteries for AirPods, iPhone, iPad and Magic accessories. It is $14.99 with a year of updates or $24.99 lifetime, after a 3-day trial, and needs macOS 15. Notchy does the alerts, health, device batteries and the charge limit in the notch for a one-time $24.99 with updates included, from macOS 13.
Looking for Juicy itself? It lives at getjuicy.app.
- Juicy price
- $14.99 (1 year of updates) or $24.99 lifetime; 3-day free trial
- Juicy requires
- macOS 15 Sequoia or later
- Notchy price
- $24.99 one-time, 7-day free trial
Why use Notchy instead of Juicy?
- Battery islands at your levels
Low-battery, charging and full-charge islands at the thresholds you pick, with an optional alert sound — no yearly update fee.
- Health and device batteries
Cycle count, capacity and charge state, plus Magic Mouse, Keyboard, Trackpad, AirPods and third-party Bluetooth headphones, all in the notch.
- Two more years of macOS
Juicy needs macOS 15 Sequoia. Notchy runs from macOS 13 Ventura on Intel and Apple silicon.
- Where Juicy does more
Juicy ranks which apps drain the battery; Notchy only warns when one is draining it. On charging the two are close now — Notchy caps between 50 and 100%, with Sailing Mode, automatic discharge and a one-tap top up.
Everything Notchy does, in one app
- Fluid Dynamic Island animations on the Mac notch
- Command palette (⌃⌥K) — every action one keystroke away
- Knock — double-tap a modifier key to open the notch
- AI usage tracker (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot)
- Detach any tab into a menu-bar popover
- Now Playing music controls (Apple Music & Spotify)
- Time-synced karaoke lyrics under the notch
- Mac clipboard history shelf (password-manager safe)
- Searchable clipboard — filter by text, file name, or OCR'd words
- On-device OCR — copy a screenshot, get its text (Apple Vision)
- Window snapping — drag a window to the notch to tile it
- App Launcher — pin apps to the notch, open with one tap
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- Text snippets — TextExpander-style pastes from the ⌘K palette
- One-tap screen capture to clipboard + shelf
- Color eyedropper — sample any pixel, hex auto-copied
- System-wide mic mute for every meeting app at once
- Keystroke HUD for demos & screencasts (secure-input safe)
- Keyboard cleaning lock with countdown island (⌘⎋ unlocks)
- Menu-bar icon hiding — Bartender-style separator & chevron
- Live CPU / memory / network stats flyout
- Custom islands through the local developer API (off by default)
- iPhone-style call island — Answer/Decline FaceTime on the notch
- Notch Terminal — real VT100/xterm shell in a PTY, its own tab
- Camera Guard — alert (or block) when any app opens your camera
- Caps Lock HUD — brief island on every toggle
- Full Charge island with adjustable threshold + low-battery sound
- Alt HUD styles — edge-pinned bar or circular gauge off the notch
- Audio-reactive Now Playing visualizer (real FFT of system audio)
- Custom closed-notch idle animation — drop in your own Lottie JSON
- Drag-and-drop file drop shelf — persists across relaunches
- Zip & unzip files right from the shelf
- Image converter (HEIC, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PDF) + video → GIF
- Run Apple Shortcuts with one tap
- Screenshots auto-staged on the shelf, ready to drag
- Download finished alerts with Reveal in Finder
- USB drive mount island with one-tap Eject
- Apple Reminders quick capture & due list
- macOS Pomodoro notch timer & stopwatch — streaks + 7-day chart
- Resizable expanded panel (width & height, live preview)
- System HUDs (volume, brightness, battery)
- Audio output switcher (speakers, AirPods, monitor)
- AirPods connection manager & battery
- Magic Mouse, Keyboard & Trackpad battery + low-battery alerts
- Quick notes & Calendar widgets
- Camera Mirror (check your appearance)
- Keep Awake (caffeine toggle)
- Teleprompter (Cuely) for Zoom calls
- Focus-aware alerts & native haptic feedback
- Lock screen widgets & hide-the-notch mode
- 134 languages, fully localized
- Native SwiftUI, tuned for Apple silicon
The honest verdict on Juicy
Juicy's per-app energy ranking and its alert design are worth the money if battery is all you want. If you want the same alerts, health and a real charge limit with updates included, Notchy now does that — with Face Unlock and a Dynamic Island alongside.
Juicy alternative — FAQ
How much is Juicy?
$14.99 one-time with a year of updates (renewal $9.99/year optional) or $24.99 lifetime, each for up to 2 Macs, with a 3-day free trial, per getjuicy.app.
What macOS does Juicy need?
macOS 15 Sequoia or later, on Intel or Apple silicon. Notchy runs from macOS 13.
Can Notchy limit battery charging like Juicy?
Yes, since v1.0.169 — any limit from 50 to 100%, with Sailing Mode, automatic discharge above the limit and a one-shot top up to 100%.
Does Notchy show AirPods and mouse battery?
Yes — AirPods, Magic Mouse, Keyboard, Trackpad and many third-party Bluetooth headphones, with low-battery alerts.
Is Notchy free?
No. Notchy is a one-time $24.99 purchase for one Mac with a 7-day free trial — no subscription or in-app purchase.