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New features and fixes in Dotwatt, newest first.
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- Build 11 · latest
Dotwatt 1.6 build 11
- Fixed: The welcome tour opens by itself only once, at the first launch. A tour that was closed before its end waits in the panel under Continue the tour; it no longer comes back at every login.
- Build 10
Dotwatt 1.5 build 10
- New: Full by a set time. Choose a time, once or every day, and Dotwatt lifts the charge limit early enough for the battery to be at 100% by then. If the Mac goes to sleep on the charger before that, the charge starts then. The limit is back afterwards.
- New: Actions for the Shortcuts app: the time left, the power draw and the battery level as Dotwatt measures them, and Keep Mac Awake, Set Charge Limit, Charge to Full Once and Set Low Power Mode.
- New: Keyboard shortcuts that work from any app: one switches Stay awake on or off, one opens Dotwatt. Set them in the settings.
- New: A battery report in one file, from the Stats tab: capacity, cycles and the recorded history, for a buyer of the Mac or for a repair.
- Build 9
Dotwatt 1.4 build 9
- New: A free trial. Dotwatt works in full for 7 days from its first launch on a Mac, with no account and no card. The panel counts the days that are left.
- New: When the trial is over, Dotwatt shows what it does and asks for a key. Buy Dotwatt and I have a key are one click away, during the trial as well.
- Better: The trial is counted once per Mac. The date it began is kept on your Mac only and is sent nowhere.
- Build 8
Dotwatt 1.3 build 8
- New: Dotwatt updates itself. Press Update in the panel: the new version downloads with its progress on show, is checked against Dotwatt's signature, and Install and relaunch puts it in place and opens it again.
- New: The download is now a disk image: open it and drag Dotwatt to the Applications folder.
- New: Activating a key shows a green glow and a tick, and removing the license from a Mac shows a quieter sign of its own, so the result is clear at once.
- Build 7
Dotwatt 1.2 build 7
- New: Dotwatt tells you when a newer version is out. Once a day it asks the website which build is the newest and shows it in the panel, with a button to the download page.
- New: Settings show the version you have and a Check now button. The daily check sends nothing about you or your Mac and can be switched off there.
- Build 6
Dotwatt 1.1 build 6
- New: A key keeps count of the Macs it is used on. When you activate, Dotwatt tells the license service that this Mac uses the key, and a fourth Mac is refused. It sends the key, a random id made for the installation and the app's version, and nothing else.
- New: Removing the license from a Mac in Settings frees its place for another Mac.
- New: A key that was refunded or withdrawn stops working within a day, instead of with the next update.
- Better: Without a connection nothing changes: the key is still checked on the Mac itself, and a service that cannot be reached never locks you out.
- Build 5
Dotwatt 1.0 build 5
- New: Activation asks for the email address the key was sent to, together with the key. A key works only with its own address, and the pair is still checked on your Mac, without the internet.
- Build 4
Dotwatt 1.0 build 4
- New: Without a key, Dotwatt opens on an overview of what it does before it asks for one.
- New: Buy Dotwatt and Quit Dotwatt buttons on the overview and on the key screen, so the app can be left without a key.
- Fixed: The settings gear no longer shows before activation, where it did nothing.
- Build 3
Dotwatt 1.0 build 3
- New: Stay awake: keep the Mac awake until you stop it, for a set time, while a chosen app runs or while coding agents work, with the lid closed too if you want.
- New: Coding agents: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot and eight more are recognised. Only the ones installed on your Mac are listed, each as working, waiting or not running.
- New: Energy modes in the panel: Low, Automatic and High Power in one click, on the Macs that have High Power.
- New: The charge limit sits on the Now tab, and one tap charges to 100% once before the limit returns.
- Better: Time left arrives 15 seconds after you unplug and settles within two minutes. After you quit an app, Dotwatt measures what really changed instead of guessing.
- Better: Apps in Stats show each app's share of the draw in percent per hour, with a first estimate that is then refined.
- New: A System card: processor load, temperatures and fan speed, read from the Mac's own sensors.
- New: A Sleep card: what each stretch asleep cost, how often the Mac woke and for what.
- New: Battery health is recorded month by month.
- New: Alerts at the levels you choose (plug in at, unplug at), Low Power by itself under a level, and a warning when one app drains unusually fast.
- Better: Tips say what to do, what it gives and why now, with a button when Dotwatt can do it for you. Tips that asked for nothing are gone.
- New: Links (dotwatt://) to control the app from Shortcuts, Raycast or a script.
- New: A welcome tour on first launch, with the two permissions macOS asks for and the reason for each.
- New: A new app icon, and a setting to draw other apps' icons in dots.
- Better: The ring and the big number change colour with the charge level, and the panel's backdrop is translucent glass.
- Fixed: An expanded tip could push the bottom of the panel off the screen. The Now tab scrolls now.
- Fixed: Notifications did not appear while the panel was open.
- Fixed: The energy mode switch could do nothing after the app was replaced. Dotwatt registers its helper again by itself.
- Build 2
Dotwatt 0.2 build 2
First release
- New: Time left on battery, in hours and minutes, in the menu bar and in the panel.
- New: The apps that use the most energy, with a Quit button next to each.
- New: Low Power Mode from the panel, a charge limit from 80 to 100% on macOS 26.4 or later, and battery history for 3 hours, 24 hours or 7 days.
- New: Charging tips with their sources, and a license key that is checked on the Mac, without the internet.