Energiza review

Updated 23 August 2026 · quoted from their own page, checked on that date. We have not measured their app. Disclosure: WattMate is our app, and Energiza reaches hardware we deliberately do not. Who measures this.

A charge manager: hold the battery between a lower and an upper limit rather than at 100%, with monitoring alongside. What makes it unusual in 2026 is the reach of the supported hardware, which goes back to MacBooks sold in 2010.

Price: three ways, two of them subscriptions

Tier	Their wording	Devices
Monthly Pro	"$1.49 per month"	2 macOS devices
Yearly Pro	"$9.99 per year"	3 macOS devices
Forever Pro	"$19.99 once"	5 macOS devices

Every tier carries a stated 30-day trial, and the one-time licence covers five machines, which is the most generous device allowance we found anywhere in this category while checking a dozen products on 23 August 2026. Ours covers one.

The Intel question, answered on their own page

Their FAQ: "Energiza Pro supports all MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs later than 2010 that run macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later. Though, the 'Discharging' feature is limited to MacBooks with Apple Silicon chips and is not supported on Intel based MacBooks."

The first half of that is a real advantage over us. WattMate is Apple silicon only, and not by preference: the per-process energy counter compiles on Intel and silently returns zero, so we would be shipping a number that is always wrong. If your Mac is from the Intel era, we are not an option and Energiza is.

Then they qualify it, at their own expense. Discharge control needs Apple silicon, and they put that where a buyer will see it rather than in a footnote.

Where we do something different

Energiza's subject is charging: what the battery is allowed to do. Ours is discharging: where the charge goes when nothing is plugged in, which app is spending it, and what quitting one is worth in minutes.

You can run both. And since macOS 26.4 caps charging natively on Apple silicon, the strongest case for a charge manager now is older hardware, which is exactly the ground Energiza covers and we do not.

Who should use which

If you have	The honest pick
An Intel MacBook	Energiza — we do not run there
Several Macs on one licence	Energiza — up to five
An Apple silicon Mac and a charge limit is all you want	macOS 26.4 does it natively
To find what is draining the charge	WattMate

Questions people ask

Does Energiza work on Intel Macs?

Yes, for charge limiting: their FAQ covers MacBooks later than 2010 running macOS 10.13 or newer. The discharge feature is the exception, which they state is Apple silicon only.

Is there a one-time purchase?

"Forever Pro $19.99 once", sold alongside the monthly and yearly subscriptions, and all three list a 30-day trial.

Do I need it on a new Mac?

For charge limiting alone, macOS 26.4 does that natively on Apple silicon. The remaining reasons are the extras and multi-machine licensing.

Does it show which app is using the battery?

Their page presents charge management as the product with monitoring around it. A per-app energy breakdown of the kind we publish is not among the features claimed there.