Magic Battery 10.3.0 for macOS

People with a Magic Mouse, Wireless Keyboard, or Trackpad tend to be the ones searching for this. They want to know how much juice is left without digging through Bluetooth menus or guessing.

Checking a device before it dies

The app sits in the menu bar and shows battery levels for connected Apple input devices. Open the menu and you see every device at a glance — no System Settings detour.

Switching between icon and detail view

You can keep it simple with just an icon, then open the menu when you actually need a number. It also detects when a device disconnects and cleans up the list on its own.

Setting it up once

After a quick install, you can have it launch at login and forget about it. English and German are both supported, and it runs on Intel or Apple Silicon Macs.

Swapping between MacBook and a desk setup

If you use two or three Bluetooth peripherals and swap between a MacBook and a desk setup, the value clicks pretty fast. I’ve seen designers and writers lean on it because their mouse always seems to blink red during a deadline. The 20% notification keeps that from happening. People who rely on internal batteries — MacBook owners who unplug often — also get a clean runtime estimate without opening Control Center. It’s less useful if you’re wired-only or never move your Mac, because you just won’t see the menu bar item often enough to care.

Skips System Settings entirely

Magic Battery doesn’t replace System Settings; it skips it. The data still comes from the same Bluetooth and power management subsystems macOS uses, so nothing gets duplicated or out of sync. When you’re inside apps like Final Cut Pro or Logic Pro, the menu bar icon stays put and you can glance at your trackpad’s charge without tabbing away. It also plays nice with third-party utilities like Bartender — the compact view works well in a tidy menu bar setup, and you can still pull up the device window with a click. Notifications go through the standard macOS notification center, so Focus modes and scheduled summaries apply automatically.

A note on the icon-only mode

Icon-only is the most useful if your menu bar is already packed. You open the menu, read the percentages, close it. That’s it. Some folks pair this with a Magic Battery for Mac cracked search because they want to test that simplicity before committing, which makes sense — the icon workflow either clicks for you or it doesn’t.

Version 10.3 is a tidy housekeeping release — the kind where you fix the squeaky hinge and finally label the drawers so you don't have to guess what's inside.

• Built-in help is here. Hit it anytime for straight answers about your devices, the menu bar, and how the settings work.
• First launch now asks you two simple questions: which menu bar style you prefer, and whether you want low battery alerts turned on. No digging through preferences later.
• Missing a device from the list? Magic Battery now tells you why it might not be showing up, instead of leaving you staring at a blank space.
• The “Full around” estimate no longer drifts into fantasy while a device is charging. It stays accurate instead of pointing to a date months past when you'd actually unplug.
• Updating the Batteries plugin is smoother — the app now stops the running plugin first so the new version installs cleanly without a wrestling match.
• Main window respects its minimum size now. You can't shrink it until the content vanishes into thin air.
• Help menu had the contact form listed twice. Fixed.

• macOS 15.6 or later
• Apple Silicon Mac required
• Intel Macs stay on the previous version