Install Cooked
Two minutes, and one of them is reading this. The whole thing is 2.5 MB, service included.
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Drag Cooked into Applications
You’re downloading a disk image signed and notarized by Apple. macOS checks the signature the first time you open it — no “unidentified developer” warning, no right-click workaround.
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Approve the charge service
On first launch, Cooked asks for your admin password once. Writing to the system controller needs that right, and it’s the small background service that holds it — never the app. It’s also why Cooked can’t live on the Mac App Store.
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Set your limit
Drag the slider anywhere from 20% to 100%. There’s nothing else to configure: Cooked holds your limit across reboots, offline, and with no license.
And if you uninstall it?
Normal charging comes straight back. The service has a dead-man switch: if it stops responding, your limit is lifted, never frozen. A battery held hostage by software that isn’t running would be a defect, not a feature.
Sold by PANASSE, a French société par actions simplifiée (SAS) registered in France. Checkout and invoicing run through a merchant of record. The charge limit itself never asks a server for anything.
Questions we get a lot.
Does Cooked work on Intel Macs?
No — Apple Silicon only, M1 and newer. Charge control goes through system controller keys that either don’t exist on Intel or behave differently there, and we’d rather say no than claim support we can’t stand behind.
Do I need to turn off the macOS charge limit?
Yes. Leave Apple’s setting at 100% and let Cooked do the work. Two limiters driving the same hardware fight each other — macOS releases the charge Cooked just cut. If both are on, Cooked tells you right in the panel.
Why does Cooked install a privileged helper?
Because writing to the system management controller needs admin rights. A small signed service handles that; the app itself has no special privileges. It’s also why Cooked can’t be on the Mac App Store — Apple’s sandbox doesn’t allow this kind of hardware access.
What happens if I quit or uninstall Cooked?
Normal charging comes back immediately. The service has a dead-man switch: if it ever stops responding, your limit is lifted, not frozen. A battery held hostage by software that isn’t running would be a defect, not a feature.