Amphetamine is a little app that lives in your menu bar which can effortlessly override your energy saver settings and keep your Mac awake.




Sleepless Mac is described as 'Open-source status bar app to keep your Mac from sleeping' and is a prevent sleep mode app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Sleepless Mac for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Flathub, F-Droid and Flatpak apps. The best Sleepless Mac alternative is Amphetamine, which is free. Other great apps like Sleepless Mac are Stimulator, Caffeine for Mac, NeverNap and KeepingYouAwake.
Amphetamine is a little app that lives in your menu bar which can effortlessly override your energy saver settings and keep your Mac awake.




This is a simple app that prevents the desktop environment (DE) from sleeping while its on. It should work regardless of the used DE thanks to the Inhibit portal.


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.

NeverNap prevents your Mac from sleeping or activating the screensaver. For 5 minutes or indefinitely. Perfect for presentations or long processes.

KeepingYouAwake is a small menu bar utility for macOS (Version 10.13 and newer) that can prevent your Mac from entering sleep mode for a predefined duration or as long as it is activated.

Use Mac with external monitors with lid closed even when you are on battery power. Play music, airplay movies, download/upload lid closed. Most modern and up to date app.




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







It always has been a missing feature: disabling the sleep mode on a Apple Laptop. Who does not want to use it as a big juke-box or go warwalking. The best looking server ever, especially at about one inch height.

Clapet is a utility that aims to improve clamshell mode on your Macbook by automatically managing sleep when an external display is detected.
Coffee Buzz is the easiest and safest display-sleep preventer available, with simple operation and exclusive Safety Auto-Shutoff feature. Keeping your Mac awake (and letting it sleep again) is as simple as a click!.


A small GNOME utility application to send Wake On LAN (WoL) magic packets to devices in a network.

