4 utilities that tell everything about your Mac's battery health

Why bother with all this

Apple guarantees the battery life in its computers with 1,000 recharge cycles. When these indicators are reached, the battery capacity should not be less than 80%. However, this is only possible with correct operation with periodic calibration and alternating operation from the mains and from the battery.

All this needs to be constantly monitored, not to mention the need to check the battery capacity and the number of recharge cycles when buying a Mac in the secondary market. This can be done in different ways: both with the help of third-party utilities and standard means. We'll take a look at the most popular ones.

Battery Monitor

Small but quite functional utility. It is distributed free of charge, does not contain ads, except that it offers to download other developer applications at the first launch. By default, it shows the main information about the battery in the drop-down menu: number of cycles, charging status, exact capacity and approximate battery life. On the details tab, you can find out the temperature, energy consumption level and other details.

There are customizable low battery notifications and themes. By displaying the percentage of charge and the remaining operating time, the Battery Monitor can replace the standard indicator.

Battery health

A more advanced app showing tons of information about the battery, including not only the number of cycles, capacity and health status, but also the age, date of manufacture of the battery and other details. Battery Health also has notifications and a display of the charge level on the icon, so this utility can also replace the standard indicator.

The only built-in purchase (379 rubles) will allow you to access the accounting of battery recharge cycles and view these statistics for a day, week, month or year.

coconutBattery

Another completely free utility that works as a separate program, and not an icon constantly hanging in the menu bar. coconutBattery displays the most important battery information on your Mac on its home screen, as well as additional information about the computer itself. Mac model, serial number, age, battery manufacturer, date of manufacture, firmware version, errors - all this and more can be found with coconutBattery.

Also, the application has the ability to record data on the current state of the battery and view a graph of its changes. But that's not all the talents of coconutBattery.

An equally important feature is the determination of the health of the iPhone and iPad batteries. It works without any jailbreak and on absolutely all iOS devices. Shows the number of cycles, capacity and many other interesting details.

System Information

The last option is for hardcore lovers and everyone who prefers to use standard tools to solve any problems. As you know, everything that the macovoda may need is already included in OS X. And the battery health monitoring tool is no exception.

The System Information utility knows everything about every component on your Mac, including the battery. It will show the number of cycles, and capacity, and the degree of serviceability, and dozens of other things. You need to look in the section "Hardware" → "Power", and look for the utility itself in the Apple menu → "About this Mac" → "System report".