Download BatFi for macOS

Designers and developers who keep a Mac plugged in all day. BatFi gives you a manual charge cap so the battery isn't sitting at 100% for hours.

Runs on Ventura or newer, Apple Silicon and Intel

• macOS Ventura or later — version 13 and up.
• Apple Silicon or Intel Mac — runs natively on both architectures.

Hard-stops charging at your chosen limit

1. Pick a charge limit — say, 80% — in the app.
2. Plug in your Mac. BatFi lets it charge to that threshold, then blocks further charging automatically.
3. Need a full battery? Use the menu command to charge to 100% when you actually need it.
4. Glance at the menu bar for battery percentage, time remaining, cycle count, temperature and health stats.

Menu bar icon refreshes instantly on power change

Version 3 brought a quieter menu bar presence. The status icon now updates faster after plugging in or unplugging — no more staring at a stale percentage while the Mac sorts itself out.

Notifications about charging-state changes arrive with just enough detail. You see when the cap kicks in and when a manual top‑up to 100% finishes. Earlier builds sometimes fired alerts twice; that's smoothed over in 3.0.5.

Under the hood, the charge‑blocking logic became smarter about brief power fluctuations. If your charger wobbles for a second, BatFi doesn't immediately reset and let the battery climb past your limit. A small thing that stops creeping charge levels over a long workday.

The temperature readout in the menu bar also got more responsive. If you're running the batfi mac app on an Intel machine that runs warm, you'll notice the number shifting in near real time rather than every few minutes.

Adds a manual ceiling alongside Apple's adaptive charging

BatFi doesn't fight macOS's own optimized charging; it sits beside it. If you have Apple's battery health management enabled, the system still learns your routine. BatFi adds a hard ceiling you control — useful when your schedule is erratic and the Mac's predictions don't match reality.

For anyone who runs menu bar utilities like Stats or iStat Menus, BatFi's icon plays nicely in the row. The customisation options let you strip it down to just a percentage, so it doesn't duplicate what another tool already shows. A clean batfi download setup often pairs it with a calendar widget and a clipboard manager — three icons, no clutter.

If you use Shortcuts, you can trigger the "charge to 100%" command via a keyboard shortcut mapped through System Settings. Handy when you're about to unplug for a meeting and want a quick top‑up without clicking through menus.

On batfi macos setups where multiple users share a Mac, each account holds its own charge limit. Fast user switching doesn't reset the cap, so a family member's preference won't override yours.

Time Machine backups and large file syncs sometimes trigger sustained power draw. BatFi notices the Mac is on AC and holds your limit steady — no accidental full charges just because the drive spun up overnight. That's where batfi for mac users notice the difference from relying solely on macOS defaults.

The status icon is customisable, so it blends into your setup. Handy if you want more control than macOS's built-in delayed charging offers.

• macOS 13 (Ventura) or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel Mac