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Mac battery charge limiters, compared

Chargeberry side by side with AlDente, BatFi, batt, Battery Toolkit and macOS’s own Charge Limit, including where each one is the better pick.

By , who makes Chargeberry · Published · 2 min read

Every page here compares Chargeberry with one other way to limit charging on a Mac. Each starts with a short answer, has a side-by-side table, and says plainly where the other app is better. Facts about other apps come from their developers’ own sites, GitHub pages and release notes, checked on November 6, 2026. Chargeberry’s maker wrote them, so weigh that as you read.

The best battery charge limiters for Mac in 2026 All six side by side: price, lowest limit, macOS 27, Intel, heat, schedules and more, with a pick for each kind of Mac and person.

One-to-one comparisons

vs Chargeberry vs AlDente The best-known Mac limiter, with a free tier and Intel support, against everything for $5.99 once on Apple silicon. Free / Pro €23.99 · Apple silicon and most Intel MacBooks from 2013 vs Chargeberry vs BatFi Two paid limiters: BatFi’s rules by time and place and macOS 27 lower limits, against Chargeberry’s Full by, drain and health. $15 · Apple silicon vs Chargeberry vs batt A free, open-source command line tool with 10–99% on macOS 27, against a Mac app you set up in a minute. Free · Apple silicon vs Chargeberry vs Battery Toolkit A free, open-source limiter with upper and lower limits, against a notarized app that works on macOS 27. Free · Apple silicon vs macOS Charge Limit vs Chargeberry macOS 26.4 added a free 80–100% limit. When it’s enough, and what an app adds. Free · Apple silicon (Charge Limit)

According to Chargeberry’s own tests, when the process holding a charging switch was killed, normal charging came back within 1 second, and the app uses about 0.1% CPU (0.13% on average, 0.4% at its busiest moment) and 13 MB of memory while it sits in the menu bar, and its helper about 0.03% CPU and 7 MB.

Measured by Chargeberry: Chargeberry’s crash-safety test, part of its hardware self-test, run on a MacBook Air (M1, 2020) on October 28, 2026: a client holding the charge switch, then the charger switch, was killed with kill -9 while the switches were read back from the battery controller. A development build of Chargeberry 1.1.2 (the same code as the release, without its compiler optimizations) on a MacBook Air (M1, 2020) with macOS 15.7.4, sampled with top every 5 seconds for 10 minutes (120 samples), the helper for 1 minute, and memory read with footprint, on November 6, 2026. Your numbers will vary with your Mac. The other apps weren’t measured.

Before you pick

  • Intel MacBook? Only AlDente runs there.
  • macOS 27 and want less than 80%? batt, BatFi or AlDente. Chargeberry and macOS’s own limit stop at 80% there.
  • Just want 80%? macOS 26.4 and later can do it for free.
  • Want heat pausing, a full charge on a schedule, draining back down, calibration and a health record in one app? That’s Chargeberry, $5.99 once.

Keep your MacBook’s battery fresh

Chargeberry is $5.99, once. No subscription, no account, free updates, and it works on up to 3 of your Macs.

  • A limit from 50 to 100%
  • Pauses charging when hot
  • Full by a time, or every weekday
  • Calibration, health and Wrapped
Chargeberry for MacOne-time purchase · Version 1.1.2

$5.99once

Buy — $5.99

macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon MacBooks (M1 or newer) · 4.9 MB · Signed and notarized by Apple

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The best battery charge limiters for Mac in 2026Six ways to stop a MacBook charging to 100%, from free built-in macOS settings to paid apps, compared on price, features and macOS 27 support. MacBook battery guidesPlain answers to common MacBook battery questions: charge limits, 100% charges, macOS 27, calibration, health and keeping a Mac plugged in. MacBook battery health calculatorEnter your battery’s design capacity, capacity now and cycle count to see its health, its wear per cycle and how far it is from Apple’s 80% mark.