This powerful app shows everything about your iPhone, iPad, or MacBook’s battery

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OK, so you want in-depth information on how the battery in your iPhone, iPad, or MacBook is doing, but you don’t want to have to go digging thorough log files — what you need is coconutBattery.

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coconutBattery is a strange name for a very powerful MacOS app (sorry Windows users, no coconutBattery for you) that displays live battery information for your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. 

Using this tool, you can quickly and easily find the age of your devices and their batteries, how many times the battery has been recharged, current battery health, and a lot more.

There are two versions of the coconutBatteryapp, a free version that gives you access to basic information, and a Plus version that costs €12.95 (about $14) that gives you a deeper dive with advanced features, such as iOS battery lifetime analyzer, advanced information viewer for iOS and macOS, Wi-Fi support (so the device doesn’t even need to be physically connected to the Mac to show you the current status), and much more.

I highly recommend you support the developer and get the Plus version. I’ve had a license for a few years now and been pleased by how this app has been regularly updated.

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Let me show you what the app does. I’ll begin with the info it can glean from a MacBook, starting with the basic information (I especially like how it shows the battery charging/discharging data, along with the power reading, as this is useful for diagnosing battery issues):

Basic information about my MacBook Pro's battery displayed using coconutBattery

Basic information about my MacBook Pro’s battery.

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Here’s more information:

More information on the MacBook Pro as seen by coconutBattery

More information on the MacBook Pro.

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And here’s what the advanced viewer has to offer:

Advanced Viewer view of my MacBook Pro thanks to coconutBattery

Advanced viewer on MacBook Pro.

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And here’s a deeper dive into the MacBook Pro’s battery and charging information:

MacBook Pro's battery and charging information as seen by coconutViewer

MacBook Pro’s battery and charging information.

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There’s a similar array of information on offer for the iPhone, too.

Basic information about my iPhone from coconutBattery

Basic information about my iPhone.

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More information on the iPhone from coconutBattery

More information on the iPhone.

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Advanced Viewer view of my iPhone from coconutBattery

Advanced viewer on my iPhone.

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iphone battery lifetime data from coconutBattery

iPhone battery lifetime data.

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And as I said earlier, the app also supports the iPad.

coconutBattery also supports the iPad

coconutBattery also supports the iPad.

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Oh, and if you have space left on your macOS Menu Bar for more stuff, you can totally throw an icon up there for easy access to coconutBattery’s information.

You can put coconutBattery in the MacOS Menu Bar for easy access

You can put coconutBattery in the MacOS Menu Bar for easy access.

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