Amphetamine Alternatives

Amphetamine is described as 'Little app that lives in your menu bar which can effortlessly override your energy saver settings and keep your Mac awake' and is a popular prevent sleep mode app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Amphetamine for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Android, Linux and F-Droid apps. The best Amphetamine alternative is Vorssaint, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Amphetamine are Caffeine for Windows, PowerToys - Awake, Green Dotter and Stimulator.

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  1. BuhoSleep icon

    BuhoSleep

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    Provides Windows tray-based management for staying awake, preventing sleep, keeping displays on, or changing power plans. Includes session timer, hotkeys, and crash recovery with Pro-only smart triggers, stats export, Drive Alive for USB devices, and minimal resource use.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • RU flagRussia
    System tray context menu with six power modes, timer submenu, and one-click switching
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  2. Extra Cup icon

    Extra Cup

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    Extra Cup is a small macOS menu bar app that stops your Mac falling asleep on its own.

    6 Extra Cup alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    The Extra Cup panel in dark mode: an hour's session counting down, with Double Espresso on to keep the Mac awake with the lid closed.
    The same panel in light mode. On battery with no display attached, it reminds you to keep the Mac uncovered so heat can escape.
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  4. Plonk Window Manager icon

    Plonk Window Manager

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    Plonk is a menu bar app for macOS that bundles a window manager with nine additional desktop utilities, so one icon replaces a stack of single-purpose tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Plonk Window Manager screenshot 1
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  5. Dantrolene icon

    Dantrolene

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    Lock timeouts make sense in an office or a café. At home, they just interrupt: the screen locks mid-movie or mid-paragraph and asks for a password it asked an hour ago. Dantrolene watches which WiFi network you're on — on the network you've designated as home, the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. ScreenWakeUp icon

    ScreenWakeUp

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    ScreenWakeUp is a free, browser-based tool that keeps your screen from sleeping or locking. It uses the modern Screen Wake Lock API — nothing to install, no admin rights, no account. Open it in any browser on Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, Android or iPhone and click one...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    ScreenWakeUp screenshot 1
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  8. Synapse Mac icon

    Synapse Mac

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    Synapse is a native macOS utility suite that combines clipboard history, screenshots, OCR, Keep Awake, QR scanning, and other everyday tools into a single lightweight app. Built in Swift, Synapse is designed to stay fast, efficient, and out of the way.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • LK flagSri Lanka
    How it looks menubar popover
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  9. Modafinil icon

    Modafinil

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    A macOS menu bar app that prevents your MacBook from falling asleep when the lid is closed, while letting the display turn off like normal to preserve battery and reduce heat.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • CA flagCanada
    Modafinil screenshot 1
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  10. Awayke icon

    Awayke

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    I go meeting to meeting with my laptop. Sometimes something's running that I don't want to die, but I also don't want to walk around with my lid half open like an idiot. Lid-close sleep is good design and should stay exactly as it is.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Awayke screenshot 1
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  11. Ajar icon

    Ajar

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    Ajar maps your MacBook's lid angle to display brightness, keyboard backlight, and system volume, and keeps the Mac awake while AI agents are running.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
    Ajar screenshot 1
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  12. BoltBurz icon

    BoltBurz

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    Keep your Mac awake only when needed, with a minimal control surface built for focused workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Global
    BoltBurz screenshot 1
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    StayUp

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    StayUp keeps a Windows PC awake on your terms: forever, for a set time, until a clock time, while a chosen app is running (Zoom, OBS, a backup job), or on a daily schedule like workdays 9-18. It uses the Windows power request API - no fake keypresses - and lives quietly in the...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    StayUp screenshot 1
    StayUp screenshot 2
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  14. Mainspring icon

    Mainspring

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    Mainspring reveals the settings macOS keeps hidden and turns them into simple, labelled switches, each with an undo button. No Terminal, no defaults write commands, and nothing you cannot put back.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
    Home screen of Mainspring to access all the tune ups
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