A macOS menu bar app that safely keeps your MacBook awake with the lid closed, for timed agent sessions.
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A macOS menu bar app that safely keeps your MacBook awake with the lid closed, for timed agent sessions.
Keep your MacBook awake with the lid closed, on battery, with no external display. A native menu-bar app that uses pmset disablesleep, with an auto-off timer and a battery-floor cutoff so it can't drain your Mac. The open-source, MIT alternative to Amphetamine.
Native macOS menu bar app that keeps your MacBook awake for AI coding agents - Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor - even with the lid closed. Open source (MIT), IOPMAssertion + scoped sudoers rule for password-free pmset, timed auto-off, login item, crash-safe self-heal. Built for overnight agent runs and clamshell mode without an external display.
Keep your Mac awake from the menu bar, even with the lid closed. A free, open source caffeine / Amphetamine alternative for macOS, built for developers running long jobs and AI agents.
Close your MacBook lid and keep working — a macOS menu bar app that stops lid-close sleep so Claude Code, Codex & other long-running terminal jobs keep running.
NoSleep page: a free web app that keeps your screen awake and stops your computer or phone from sleeping, with timers and a floating window. No install, uses the Screen Wake Lock API.
Keep your Mac awake while AI agents run — prevent sleep, keep the display on, stay awake even with the lid closed (clamshell). A scriptable caffeinate / Amphetamine alternative with a menu-bar panel. 防休眠 / 合盖不休眠 / 让电脑不休眠
Keep your Mac awake with the lid closed — free open-source macOS menu bar app. One click, no external display, dark screen, battery guard.
👁️ Keep your Mac awake — Caffeine-style, the honest way. Official IOKit power assertions, zero permissions, notarized.
Keep your MacBook awake with the lid closed: run Claude Code or any long task with the Mac closed. Menu bar app, one click, self-tested. Free forever. / O MacBook não dorme com a tampa fechada.
Keep your Mac awake while your AI coding agents work, and let it sleep when they are done. A caffeinate you can see: per-session working vs waiting for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Copilot and opencode. Amphetamine alternative for agent-heavy Macs.
A tiny native macOS menu-bar app that stops your Mac going to sleep. One click, no Terminal. ~300KB, Swift.
MacAwake: keep your Mac awake from the menu bar. Free, open-source caffeinate and Amphetamine alternative for macOS. Prevent Mac sleep for 15 min to 4 hours, a custom time, or until you stop, with the screen on or off. Great for downloads, builds, and Claude Code / AI agents running overnight.
Know when your Mac will sleep, and change it with one click. A tiny macOS menu bar app with three honest sleep modes.
Tiny menu bar caffeinator for macOS — ~90 lines of Swift. One click to keep your Mac awake. No settings, no telemetry, no fluff.
Free, open-source macOS menu bar app that keeps your Mac awake and shows live system stats — CPU, memory, power draw, temperature, GPU, disk, network. A clickable caffeinate / Amphetamine alternative with no network access, no telemetry and zero dependencies. MIT.
Free, open-source macOS menu bar app to keep your Mac awake with the lid closed — no external monitor, charger or HDMI dummy plug. Great for Claude Code, builds & downloads.
Menu-bar switch that keeps a MacBook awake with the lid closed, with battery-floor, timer and heat cutoffs
Your Mac stays awake while AI agents work — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Ollama — and sleeps when they finish. Auto-detecting Amphetamine for the AI era. Free, open source.
A candle in your menu bar that keeps the Mac awake while Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or any coding agent is working
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