The Best Mac Battery Monitor
Stop using outdated battery utilities. Notchy gives you gorgeous, iOS-style battery HUDs for your Mac and AirPods right inside the notch. It's the modern coconutBattery alternative.
The modern coconutBattery & Juicy alternative
Apps like coconutBattery look like they were built a decade ago, and Juicy charges for its features. Notchy brings the sleek, fluid battery animations of the iPhone Dynamic Island straight to your Mac — and it doesn't stop at reporting: a built-in charge limit holds the battery at 80%, the job people buy AlDente for.
An AirBuddy alternative
Skip a separate AirBuddy install just to see your headphone battery. Notchy displays your MacBook charge, your AirPods case, and individual earbud batteries all in one gorgeous UI.
Zero menu bar clutter
Free up space in your menu bar. Instead of showing percentages constantly, Notchy displays your battery health elegantly only when you click or plug in a charger.
Low resource footprint
A battery monitor shouldn't drain your battery. Notchy is built natively in SwiftUI and uses native frameworks, consuming near-zero CPU at idle while running in the background.
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
Mac Battery Monitor — FAQ
Is there a modern alternative to coconutBattery?
Yes. While coconutBattery is an old staple, Notchy provides a modern, iOS-style battery monitor directly in the MacBook notch. It shows your Mac’s battery and your connected AirPods battery instantly.
How do I check my Mac battery health natively?
Notchy uses pure macOS native APIs to read your battery state. When you interact with the notch, a sleek, iOS-inspired battery pill expands to show your current charge level and charging status.
Does it track AirPods and Bluetooth device batteries?
Yes. If you open your AirPods case or connect a Bluetooth device, Notchy dynamically expands the notch to display the battery levels of the case and individual earbuds.