Battery Buddy

Name: Battery Buddy
Rating: 4.0 (1 reviews)

4.0•1 review•

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Battery Buddy

4.0•1 review•

124 followers

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It’s like the default battery indicator in your menu bar, but cute.

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Battery Buddy

Maker

Thanks for hunting @__tosh! Hey gang, hope you like Battery Buddy! It’s really just as simple as it sounds — a cute replacement for the macOS battery indicator. It’s also coming to iOS in the future for you jailbreakers out there (https://twitter.com/schneelittch...), so keep your eyes out 👀 Enjoy, and let me know if you have any questions •ᴗ•

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5yr ago

Haha “why not?” Love it! Does it impact performance in any way? I have a ton of menu bar apps running at all times and am hesitant of adding one more — considering it doesn’t do anything ^-^'

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5yr ago

Battery Buddy

Maker

@anna_0x It shouldn’t impact performance in any way! And you can confirm that for yourself in Activity Monitor. (I mean, how ironic would it be if a battery indicator wrecked your performance, right? 🙈)

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5yr ago

@neilsardesai nice! I installed it, think it’s quite cute ^-^ Sad there’s no way to display the battery percentage in the menu bar as well though… Having to click the icon to see it get tiring when you want to do it 100 times a day :P

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5yr ago

Sleegal - Lawyer search made simple

It looks so cute on the menu bar of my computer! Question: how would you remove it? I can't seem to be able to find a way to turn it off and on.

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5yr ago

Battery Buddy

Maker

@sleegal To quit the app, you can either right click on the icon, then click Quit. Or hold down the command key and drag the icon out of your menu bar.

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5yr ago

Big Weather

Very cute! Technical question, how do you handle the updates via "Check for Updates..."? Is that through some SaaS service or Apple first-party thing? Thanks a bunch if you can even give a short answer to point me in the right direction.

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5yr ago

Battery Buddy

Maker

@frankbyte Like most Mac apps outside the Mac App Store, I’m using Sparkle: https://sparkle-project.org

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5yr ago

Big Weather

@neilsardesai Awesome thanks!

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5yr ago

Morph

Gyaaahh he's so cute! Do I have to fire up the app every time I restart? Can I get it to replace the original battery indicator? Sorry I've only had a Mac for a little over a month, and it hasn't stuck me as being super-moddable (battery buddy is the first cosmetic change I've made; it still has the default wallpaper!)

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5yr ago

Battery Buddy

Maker

@rob_chap Yes, you can replace the original battery indicator! To make Battery Buddy automatically open at login, make sure the app is in the Applications folder. To remove the default battery indicator from the menu bar, go to System Preferences > Battery > Battery > and uncheck “Show battery status in menu bar”

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5yr ago

Morph

@neilsardesai Done! Nice one

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5yr ago

I say "why not?". When my battery goes to red or yellow, I aways get a bit stressed. why not take the edge off ;)

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5yr ago

Cool app. Please add percents and face animation, when it decreasing really fast (you should write a script for it, I could help if you contact me). If it's too small to render face, you can add a little glow and change the face position. Also, you can add X _ X face when it's 1% (I got this on my MacBook 16 sometimes, it's a known bug on Big Sur)

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5yr ago

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