Mac 4 Breakfast review

Updated 30 September 2026 · everything here comes from their own pages, checked on 1 September 2026. We have not measured their app. Disclosure: WattMate is our app, and this is the closest product on the market to what we do. Who measures this.

Battery health, cycles, live watts, a sleep-drain breakdown and every open app with the watt-hours it has used since launch, in one menu bar app with a free tier. Of everything we looked at, this is the product closest to ours in intent.

What it says it does

Their home page sums it up as "Health, charge, sleep-drain and every Apple device. Everything macOS hides, in one native app."

The per-app part is described precisely enough to compare: "Every open app with how long it has been open and the energy it has actually consumed since launch: real watt-hours from macOS's own counter." Separately, the Pro list promises "See which apps are using significant energy, live".

Price, checked on 1 September 2026

Tier	Their wording
Free	"Free $0 forever"
Pro	"$9.99 one-time" · "One license · up to 3 Macs"
Trial	"14-day Pro trial · Every Pro feature, no card required"
Terms	"Pay once. Yours forever. No subscription." · "30-day money-back"
Requirements	"Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon · ~12 MB"

The launch price expired, exactly as their own page said it would. Until 31 August the page carried a "Launch offer · 50% off" banner and the line "Launch price ends 31 August · $4.99 one-time, then back to $9.99". Re-checked on 1 September 2026, the banner is gone and Pro reads "$9.99 one-time". They printed the date and then honoured it, which is more than the genre usually manages.

Where it is better than ours

There is a free tier, and it is not a stub. Health, capacity, condition, cycles, temperature and the menu bar percentage are all in it, and every install gets what they call a "14-day Pro trial · Every Pro feature, no card required". Ours has a free part too: after a ten-day trial the list of apps, their watts and the battery's own health readings stay free, and the minutes and the archive need a key. Their trial is the longer of the two.

One payment still covers a lot of ground. $9.99, for up to three Macs, buys per-app energy, remaining-time estimates, notifications, iPhone, iPad, AirPods and Watch levels, and a sleep breakdown, all read off their own pages on 1 September 2026.

We are not going to call that the best value in the category, because we have not earned the word. Saying it would mean re-checking every app on our map on the same day, and the map's own dates say otherwise: prices there were verified 12–13 August, Endurance on 18 August, and only Mac 4 Breakfast on 1 September. The one comparison we can stand behind is WhatBattery, verified 12–13 August 2026 at £9.99 one-time for up to two Macs, with a free open-source core, live watts, apps ranked by watts and overnight wakes. Against that, the doubling from $4.99 narrowed the gap.

It reads other Apple devices. We do not.

Where we do something different

Per-app energy is not the difference: they have it, we have it, and so do two others in this category. The difference is direction. Their figure is what an app has used since it launched, accumulated backwards. Their time estimate is for the machine as a whole, phrased as "About 14 minutes left".

Ours points forwards and then checks itself: a number of minutes attached to one specific app before you quit it, then a re-measurement two minutes afterwards printing what actually changed, or stating that the effect could not be isolated. Searched across their home, pricing and comparison pages again on 1 September 2026, a promise of that shape is not claimed.

Which of the two you want depends on the question. "Where did today's charge go" is answered by accumulated watt-hours. "What do I get if I close this thing right now" is answered by a projection that is willing to be wrong and to say so.

Who should use which

If you want	The honest pick
A free health and cycles readout	Either
Battery levels for iPhone, iPad, AirPods, Watch	Mac 4 Breakfast
The most coverage for one small payment	Mac 4 Breakfast
Where today's charge went, by app	Either
What quitting an app is worth, checked afterwards	WattMate

Questions people ask

Is Mac 4 Breakfast free?

There is a free tier they describe as "Free $0 forever", covering health, capacity, condition, cycles, temperature and the menu bar percentage. Per-app energy and the sleep breakdown are in the paid tier.

Is it a subscription?

No. Their wording is "Pay once. Yours forever. No subscription."

Does it run on Intel Macs?

Their pricing page states "Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon". Their FAQ is softer: "macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple-silicon native (Intel best-effort)", checked 1 September 2026, so ask them before buying for an Intel machine. We have no best-effort to offer: the per-process energy counter compiles on Intel and silently returns zero, which is why we require Apple silicon outright.

Can I run it alongside WattMate?

Yes. Both read the same system counters and neither writes anything to the battery, so they do not conflict.