When you’re running on battery power, you want to make sure your Mac is using as little energy as possible. But there are plenty of times when you don’t want your system to go to sleep.

Check out these Mac Menu Bar Battery Apps:

CoconutBattery

CoconutBattery

CoconutBattery shows you live information about the battery quality in your Mac, iPhone and iPad. You can also save the current health information, so you can see the changes of your battery over time.

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Wattagio

Wattagio

Wattagio informs you about the current battery health and helps your Mac to decrease power usage. Themenu bar app shows you detailed stats & health information for your Macbook’s battery and helps to optimize apps activity.

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iBetterCharge

ibettercharge-app

iBetterCharge tracks the power of your iOS devices. When they hit a specific battery capacity (or are fully charged up when plugged in), the app will let you know.

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gfxCardStatus

gfxcardstatus

gfxCardStatus is an unobtrusive menu bar app for OS X that allows MacBook Pro users to see which apps are affecting their battery life by using the more power-hungry graphics. It also tells you which graphics card you are using.

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