Alternatives to batt
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. batt itself: install batt.
Battery
CLI/GUI for managing the battery charging status for Apple silicon (M1, M2, M3) Macs
Stillcolor
Disable temporal dithering on your Mac with this lightweight menu bar app. Designed for Apple silicon Macs
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
FineTune
FineTune, a macOS menu bar app for per-app volume control, multi-device output, audio routing, and 10-band EQ. Free and open-source alternative to Sou
macintosh.js
🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry
noTunes
A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching
Brooklyn
🍎 Screensaver inspired by Apple's Event on October 30, 2018
Knuff
The debug application for Apple Push Notification Service (APNs)
BLEUnlock
Lock/unlock your Mac with your iPhone, Apple Watch, or any other Bluetooth LE devices
Reminders MenuBar
Simple macOS menu bar application to view and interact with reminders. Developed with SwiftUI and using Apple Reminders as a source
Unshaky
A software attempt to address the "double key press" issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard [not actively maintained]
Hot
Hot is macOS menu bar application that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues
smcFanControl
Control the fans of every Intel Mac to make it run cooler
LosslessSwitcher
Automated Apple Music Lossless Sample Rate Switching for Audio Devices on Macs
asimov
Automatically exclude development dependencies from Apple Time Machine backups
Mac Sai
Mac Sai: the open-source Mac cleaner, optimizer, and malware scanner. A free, Apple-notarized alternative to CleanMyMac, built with Swift 6 and SwiftU
Orchard
The native UI for Apple Containers and (o)MLX sandboxes, written in swift as a replacement for docker desktop
iSimulator
iSimulator is a GUI utility to control the Simulator, and manage the app installed on the simulator
Clock Signal
A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, Cole
go
The Go programming language
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than batt — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
batt is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.