/KeepingYouAwake

A Caffeine clone for macOS Yosemite, El Capitan and Sierra (including Dark Mode).

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KeepingYouAwake

KeepingYouAwake is a small menu bar utility for macOS Yosemite (Version 10.10) and newer that can prevent your Mac from entering sleep mode for a predefined duration or as long as it is activated.

Installation

Download the latest version here.

or install it via cask: brew cask install keepingyouawake.

Screenshots

Why does this project exist, Caffeine.app works perfectly fine?

Caffeine from Lighthead Software is a great utility and I used it for many years, but it hasn't been updated in a while. Its icons are not Retina-compatible and do not look nice in the dark themed menu bar.

How do you prevent my Mac from sleeping?

This utility is just a small wrapper around Apple's caffeinate command line utilty. Any modern Mac ships this tool by default. You can read the manpage here.

Is this dangerous?

Just to make it clear: this utility shouldn't harm your Mac because it is using an official command line tool from Apple, BUT I cannot guarantee anything, so use this tool AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Help Wanted!

Do you want to improve the app or add any useful features? Please go ahead and create pull requests. I'm thankful for any help.

Building the Source Code

KeepingYouAwake uses Carthage as dependency manager. You can install Carthage with Homebrew. Type brew update && brew install carthage and call carthage bootstrap in the KeepingYouAwake source code folder to download and build all dependencies.

License

Everything in this project is licensed under the MIT license. I even included the Sketch files for all image assets in this project.