Battery Autopilot

Put your MacBook battery on AI autopilot

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Put your MacBook battery on AI autopilot

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Battery care is AI's job now. It learns your Mac, applies only the power savings that measurably work, guards charging at 80%, and tops up before you leave. See “+47 min extended today”. 3-day free trial.

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Launch tags:Mac•Batteries•Artificial Intelligence

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OpenAI

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What could you build with GPT-5.6 that wasn’t practical before?

Maker

With GPT-5.6, we can turn battery optimization from a fixed rule engine into a reasoning agent that plans a personalized strategy for each Mac — safely and always-on. Before, our on-device engine could measure the real wattage effect (ΔW) of actions like brightness or Low Power Mode, but the "what to try next and why" logic was hand-coded and shallow. With GPT-5.6, the model reasons over each user's app mix, charge/unplug patterns, and override history to propose smarter strategies — and its lower cost and latency make it practical to run that planning loop continuously in the background. The bigger unlock is trust through explanation. Charge control touches a user's hardware, so "the AI turned something off" isn't enough. GPT-5.6 lets us generate clear per-user rationales — "we held at 80% and throttled these background apps, saving 47 minutes today" — while every decision still passes local safety guardrails before it's applied. That wasn't practical for us before.

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2mo ago

Maker

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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I built Battery Autopilot because keeping a MacBook plugged in all day quietly wears the battery out — and manual battery care (dimming the screen, quitting apps, plugging/unplugging) never really sticks for more than a few days. So I made it AI's job instead. Battery Autopilot learns how you actually use your Mac, then: Holds your charge at 80% to slow wear, with a self-healing guard if macOS overrides it Tests power-saving actions and applies only the ones that measurably work on your machine (your foreground apps are never touched) Predicts when you usually unplug and times a full charge to your departure Shows the payoff right in your menu bar: "+47 min extended today" Everything learns on-device, and only decisions that pass local safety guardrails ever get applied. There's a 3-day free trial with no card required, so you can verify the effect yourself before committing. I'd love your feedback — especially on what you'd want the AI to learn next.

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2mo ago

@kashiwasan Congrats on the launch! Curious — how do you think you compare to

AlDente ? I've got a similar app already on

my Mac, so genuinely interested in what makes yours different.

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1mo ago

Dial

the "only applies savings that measurably work" line is what got me, most battery apps just throttle everything and hope. is that measurement based on your own usage history per-app, or some baseline dataset across all users? asking because my battery drain is basically all Chrome tabs and Docker, curious if it actually targets that instead of dimming the screen and calling it a day.

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1mo ago

the "+47 min extended today" copy is genuinely clever, like it frames the whole thing as a positive daily win instead of just nagging you about percentages. that kind of small framing choice usually signals the team really thought through the whole experience

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1mo ago

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