Is it better to use AlDente to optimize the life of the MacBook Pro battery?

Were it my Macbook Pro, I would NEVER use a third-party battery optimizer.

Recent Macbook Pros and macOS version have very sophisticated routines that learn your usage and charging pattern and use those to help extend the battery's lifetime. I worry that adding any third-party "optimizers" could interfere with what you paid Apple to build into the system and cause problems that could include battery damage.

I see that as a parallel to the useless cesspool of so-called Mac "cleaning" apps out there. Since OSX debuted in about 2000, the OS has enjoyed elegant and automated self-maintenance apps that do all required maintenance, even defragging, during idle times without your having to think about it or be inconvenienced by it. Adding unneeded "help" is proven to degrade performance.

HaggaBon wrote:

Is it better to use AlDente to optimize the life of the Mac book battery? (Mac Book Pro M1 2021 16")

No.

Let your Mac manage its own battery. Attempting to improve upon what Apple's engineers already devoted countless man-hours into designing is foolish.

Read About battery health management in Mac notebooks - Apple Support.

I have used it more than a year and very happy. I limited the charge to 70 and it keeps it there. My Macbook M1 pro battery is at 93 after 2 years of heavy use and plugged in quite a lot of the time, which would not be the case otherwise.

Apple focuses on user experience and does not want you put thought to technical things like these, and additionally many apple users have deep pockets i.e. they wouldn't even want to bother about saving the battery for longer or other similar things. And so behold their inbuilt battery management, which is not useful for me.

What you need to do is allow only the the Mac's charging circuitry to micromanage the battery and you just enjoy the nice machine.