Widget Vault
Battery Widget for Mac: Show Battery Percentage on Your Desktop
The menu bar battery icon is small, and the percentage next to it is optional, cramped, and easy to overlook — right up until the 10% warning. A battery widget on your Mac desktop makes your charge level impossible to miss: a big ring, bar or grid that updates live as you work.
Three ways to see your charge
- Ring — a bold percentage wrapped in a progress circle; readable from across the room.
- Bar — a horizontal charge bar with the exact percentage, like a fuel gauge for "This Mac".
- Icon grid — compact tiles that fit neatly beside your other widgets.
Each style comes in multiple themes — including racing-inspired art where your 85% sits over a pit-lane scene — plus clean light and dark variants that follow your system appearance.
Add the battery widget in one minute
- Download Widget Vault from the Mac App Store and open it.
- Choose Battery Status in the gallery and pick ring, bar or icon-grid — the preview shows your real charge.
- Control-click the desktop → Edit Widgets → drag the battery widget from the Widget Vault section.
- Size it Small for a corner tile or Medium for the full gauge, then click Done.
Step-by-step widget basics: how to add widgets to your Mac desktop.
Common questions
Does the battery widget itself drain the battery?
Effectively no. It's a native WidgetKit widget: macOS renders it on a timeline rather than keeping an app running, so the energy cost is negligible — this isn't an Electron gadget.
Can my Mac show battery percentage in the menu bar too?
Yes — System Settings → Control Center → Battery → "Show Percentage". The widget complements it with something you can actually see at a glance, plus styles that match your setup.
What about iPhones and AirPods?
On the Mac, the widget tracks your Mac's battery. Widget Vault's iPhone version additionally monitors connected Bluetooth devices in one widget — same app, universal purchase.
Never get surprised by 10% again
Put a live battery gauge on your desktop — free 7-day trial of Widget Vault Premium.
Free download · macOS 14 Sonoma or later