Akku bids you farewell 👋

[jariz]

Hi there!

Great news: MacOS can now finally read 3rd party battery state on it's own! 🎉 Getting 3rd party battery states integrated into the operating system itself is far superior over having to use a separate app, and I therefore will be sunsetting Akku.

What does this effectively mean

• This project will see no further development. At least, from me personally. If you for some reason want to pick up maintainer ship, reach out to me on twitter.
• Akku appears to not be compatible with Monterey. (#121) I have no plans on making Akku compatible with Monterey because of said reasons above.
• If you're stuck on a MacOS version before Monterey, feel free to keep using Akku, it should continue to (mostly) work there.

Conclusion

This was a really fun project for me, involving lots of reverse engineering and low level hardware interfacing, which are things I don't get to do all that often! I'm really happy many people ended up using this - what I still consider to be - experimental app. I never really have put any effort into promoting it whatsoever, I just created the github repo and it spread by itself organically, so thanks for all your support!

If you liked the notification feature, I would recommend giving AirBuddy by @insidegui a try.