GoodBattery 1.1 was built and made downloadable on October 27, 2026. This October 30 introduction was scheduled separately from the other new-product notes. It is an early Apple silicon Mac beta that brings Mac and paired-iPhone battery information into one small desktop widget.
A small home for battery information
The slim glass widget sits behind ordinary app windows, shows battery level and charging state, and remembers its desktop position. Its native clear and frosted treatments follow the Mac’s appearance. Menu-bar controls include manual refresh and Start at Login.
The Mac battery is checked every minute. An iPhone check is scheduled every five minutes while the Mac is awake, and overlapping phone requests are coalesced. A confirmed reading retains its timestamp; a missed connection leaves the last reading visible instead of inventing a new value. Phone readings older than ten minutes are marked stale.
Pairing and real-device limits
Wireless iPhone checks depend on pairing first with a USB data cable, unlocking the phone, choosing Trust, enabling the iPhone’s Wi-Fi connection in Finder, and keeping both devices on the same local network. No separate phone app or cloud account is required by this design.
The checked runtime notes record successful helper discovery commands with no connected phone and a correctly reported no-device error. They do not establish a successful battery query from a trusted iPhone over USB or Wi-Fi. Treat phone compatibility as an early-beta limitation and check the timestamps on your own device.
Download, signing, and helper sources
The official Good Tools download is the Mac 1.1 ZIP for Apple silicon and macOS 27 or newer. Its SHA-256 matches the locally built GoodBattery ZIP. The app is ad hoc signed and not notarized; use the installation guide if macOS asks about an unknown developer.
A separate download includes the open-source helper components, licenses, and rebuild instructions. It does not contain GoodBattery’s original Swift application source. The helper archive links the pinned OpenSSL source separately, so it should not be described as a complete source bundle on its own.