What is Battery Hog?
Shows what is draining the battery: live watts, per-app energy, charge history, and drain insights. 100% local.
Verified product facts
- Type
- battery and power utilityEditorially reviewed
- Platform
- macOS
- Pricing
- Open sourceDeveloper-stated
- Open source
- Yes
- Relationship to Nuanyue
- Third-party product — not published by NuanyueEditorially reviewed
- Licence
- MIT
- Current version
- 1.5.0Developer-stated
- Official website
- github.com/luke-fairbanks/BatteryHog
Last updated . Facts marked developer-stated come from the developer and are not independently confirmed; editorially reviewed marks a Nuanyue judgement.
Key features
What Battery Hog does at a glance.
Battery
A charge-history chart (Last 24 Hours / Last 10 Days, built from the system power log) plus maximum capacity, condition, cycle count, and temperature
Sleep blockers
Identifies apps holding long-running idle-sleep assertions and flags overly long battery display timeouts
Opt-in alerts
Native notifications for low battery, full charge, runaway-CPU apps, and sustained macOS thermal pressure with likely workload attribution
Configurable menu bar
Choose what the status item shows: battery %, watts, time remaining, and/or the top app
Signed software updates
Check manually or opt in to daily checks; Homebrew copies stay managed by Homebrew
Overview
Shows what is draining the battery: live watts, per-app energy, charge history, and drain insights. 100% local.
Battery Hog runs on macOS and is listed on Nuanyue in the system tools category.
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