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Cooked

Install Cooked

Two minutes, and one of them is reading this. The whole thing is 8.5 MB, service included.

Download for Mac

On macOS 27, Cooked sets macOS’s own charge limit. It goes below 80% on Macs that accept it; on the others, it holds 80% and tells you so. The resting range there is macOS’s, 5 points.

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    Approve the charge service

    On first launch, Cooked asks for your admin password once. Changing how your Mac charges 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 safety catch: if it ever stops, 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 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, on macOS 13 to 26. Leave Apple’s setting at 100% and let Cooked do the work. Two limiters driving the same hardware fight each other, and macOS releases the charge Cooked just cut. If both are on, Cooked tells you right in the panel. On macOS 27, there’s nothing to turn off: Cooked sets Apple’s limit itself, so change it in Cooked.

Why does Cooked install a privileged helper?

Because changing how your Mac charges 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?

Quit the app and your limit keeps holding: a small background service does the work. Uninstall Cooked and normal charging comes straight back. If the service ever stops, your limit is lifted, not frozen. A battery held hostage by software that isn’t running would be a defect, not a feature.