Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac



Caffeine for Mac is described as 'Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers' and is a popular prevent sleep mode app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Caffeine for Mac for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Android, Linux and F-Droid apps. The best Caffeine for Mac alternative is Amphetamine, which is free. Other great apps like Caffeine for Mac are Caffeine for Windows, Stimulator, Caffeine for Linux and PowerToys - Awake.



Coffee will keep your computer wide awake while your network is active or a program. Coffee prevents standby when your traffic speed on a selected network adapter is above the user configurable threshold or specific software selected.




MoccaFaux is a flexible scheduler that prevents the activation of screen savers and power-saving modes when certain conditions are met.
Espresso is a Caffeine alternative with support for retina displays and the black or white menu bar introduced in OS X Yosemite.

"Don't Go to Sleep Please" prevents sleep mode on the Mac until applications or processes are done.




When it's not possible to change the screensaver settings in your Windows environment, then it's almost impossible to show things on your screen for a longer period without activating the screensaver.
SleepTime is a light-weight app that lives on your menu bar, letting you easily set a timer to put your Mac on sleep automatically after a specified time period you choose.



Econap helps you to save energy and increase your comfort. Before your pc enters the sleep mode, Econap will check if something important is running on your system. If so, it will wait until your download, backups, videos etc. are finished. Finally your pc will go to sleep.


Simulates activity (=> disables screensaver and powersaving) while running programms (any .exe) from a choosen directory. Main purpose is to choose the steam directory to disable monitor powersaving while running steam games.

NoDoze simulates keyboard/mouse activity to keep the screensaver from activating. Its activity depends on currently running programs. You can use regular expressions or Windows wildcards to choose when the screensaver is deactivated.



Coffee allows you to keep the display awake without having to change the device settings. It can be toggled at various places:
