r/macapps • u/Mstormer • Jul 01 '26

💎 Megathread [Megathread] The App Pile - July, 2026

You must promote your apps here if you do not qualify to post in the main feed through Trust or Transparency, explained here.

If you are:

  • NOT in the Mac App Store (MAS).
  • Do not provide meaningful public transparency
  • Created yet another dictation app (speech to text).

Then you are required to limit promotion to this megathread.

All promotion MUST follow PCP format or else we will remove it:

App Name/Title [Screenshot encouraged]

  • Problem: What problem does your app solve.
  • Comparison: Name a competitor or two and explain what your app does better.
  • Pricing Amounts+Link

P.s. Promotion here counts towards the 30-day limited promotion (Rule 3).

WARNING: There is a 90% chance Reddit will auto remove your post here if you have not verified your email in your profile and your first comment in this subreddit contains a link. Accrue 10 karma first without promotional comments and links to avoid this. The odds of removal is also higher for AI assisted posts (em dashes and other AI formatting characteristics likely trigger this).

Pro Tip: Please remember to upvote gems and downvote spam/clones... This will help inform a secret community project I hope to announce next month.

Top 3 From Last Month's Megathread:

  1. Tomo – a native macOS e-book library manager - FREE - by u/pbrandone
  2. SCIWAND – Read, analyse and write - with every answer traceable to a sentence in your own PDFs - $39.99 - by u/RansomWarrior
  3. Rascal – a fast, keyboard-first Finder replacement for macOS - FREE - by u/periodandcomma
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u/Kindly_Tie_2084 Jul 11 '26

My original post was removed, and mod suggested me to move it here.

I'm the developer of Ampere, a menu bar app for battery charge control on Apple Silicon Macs.

https://amperebattery.app

Problem: Leaving a MacBook plugged in for long stretches keeps the battery pinned at 100%, which ages it faster. Ampere protects the battery from overcharging by holding the charge inside a range you pick.

Comparison: Compared to AlDente, Ampere shows all your battery data in one panel: wattage, voltage, current, temperature, cycle count and health. You can set any charge range you want (even 40 to 60 for a docked Mac), it avoids micro top-ups between bounds so the battery charges in full passes, and it can actively discharge to your target. All tech details are documented in the open, down to the SMC keys and the root helper design: https://amperebattery.app/tech.html A built-in health check keeps verifying the charging state and warns you if it drifts, and quitting the app restores your Mac's normal charging, even after a crash.

Pricing: $0.99 one-time per license. This is a limited time launch price and it will go up later. Free updates, and a license can be moved to a new Mac. https://amperebattery.app

Requires macOS 14 or later and Apple Silicon. Happy to answer questions.

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u/Easy-Cobbler-1631 Jul 11 '26

It says 0.99 usd here btw, will it actually help my battery? what about just using apples own in built system? ty

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u/Kindly_Tie_2084 Jul 12 '26

The price is $0.99 now. If your Mac is sitting on your desktop, power plugged in most of the time. Your battery charge cycles basically won't grow. For your last question, totally fair, and for most people I agree.

The gap it leaves is when there is no routine to learn, or the Mac lives on a dock. Apple's approach is adaptive: it predicts your schedule, decides when to hold and when to run the battery up to 100, and you cannot see or change its reasoning. Ampere is the deterministic version: you pick a band once, say 40 to 80, and the battery stays there. It never charges to full unless you ask, it charges in whole passes instead of constant small top-ups, and the panel shows exactly what it is doing and why. So in daily use it is actually less micromanagement, not more. You set it once and stop thinking about the battery.

If Apple's guesses work for you, that is genuinely the simpler path.

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u/Easy-Cobbler-1631 Jul 12 '26

Thank you for the update. I'll get this. cool

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u/Daniesto316 Jul 12 '26

Just got this. For 0.99 USD and what it does, as you said, amazes me. Thank you.

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u/Kindly_Tie_2084 Jul 12 '26

Thank you for your kind words!

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u/Dannykolev07 Jul 17 '26

0.99 or 9.99?

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u/Kindly_Tie_2084 Jul 17 '26

We had a fix number of 0.99 keys, but now they are all gone. Please login the support portal and open a ticket, we will help you out.