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:
Insomniacs
This menu bar app disables sleep forever or just for a selected time period. It also prevents sleeping/hibernation when your MacBook lid/screen is closed. Comes in handy when you’ve got time consuming operations to complete.
Cooldown
In macOS Monterey Apple introduced a new Low Power Mode for Mac. Cooldown is a simple menu bar app that allows you to quickly toggle Low Power Mode on and off.
Upper Volta
A free replacement for macOS’ battery status indicator, with a lot of functionality. Runs on both macOS Catalina and Big Sur.
Battery Thing
Show/hide your Mac’s battery icon when you want. This menu bar app also shows the statuses of your Bluetooth Apple products.