Amphetamine Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Amphetamine for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Caffeine for Mac, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Amphetamine and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Amphetamine are KeepingYouAwake, Should I Sleep, Coffee Buzz and Lungo.

Amphetamine

Free • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App

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Caffeine for Mac
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Free • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
44 Caffeine for Mac alternatives
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. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.
- - Caffeine for Mac is the most popular Mac alternative to Amphetamine.
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Sits in the MenuBar
Discontinued
The last version (1.1.3) is from May 2020.
KeepingYouAwake
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Free • Open Source
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
25 KeepingYouAwake alternatives
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.
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Sits in the MenuBar
FOSS
Should I Sleep
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Paid • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
32 Should I Sleep alternatives
Annoyed by the display getting dim when you're reading or watching something? What if the computer could “see and hear” you?
- - Should I Sleep is the most popular commercial alternative to Amphetamine.
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Face detection
Motion Detection
Coffee Buzz
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Free • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
14 Coffee Buzz alternatives
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!.
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1. Ad-freeCoffee Buzz doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Sits in the System Tray
Lungo
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Paid • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
39 Lungo alternatives
Keeps your Mac awake.
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Lungo Features
Sits in the MenuBar
Display info on the menubar
InsomniaX
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Free • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
30 InsomniaX alternatives
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.
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Sits in the System Tray
Discontinued
The software is discontinued from July 2017http://semaja2.net/2017/06/thank-you-and-farewell-for-now/
Theine
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Paid • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
42 Theine alternatives
Prevent your Mac from falling asleep, dimming your screen or starting the screensaver. Theine keeps macOS awake just like caffeine does with you.
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NoSleep
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Free • Open Source
Mac
24 NoSleep alternatives
NoSleep makes closing of your MacBook lid possible without going to a sleep mode. Now you shouldn't have to plug your mouse and monitor to stay computer awake - just activate it by clicking a menu bar icon or check a tick in the System Preferences and continue downloading...
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Discontinued
PleaseSleep
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
23 PleaseSleep alternatives
PleaseSleep is a utility software designed for Mac OS X that helps put your computer to sleep when you know some other app is preventing your Mac from going to sleep.
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Discontinued
The developer has quit and the official site is gone except for a farewell message, but the site has been archived by Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20151202113600/http://www.dragonone.com/products/macosx/pleasesleep/
InsomniaT
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Free • Open Source
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
24 InsomniaT alternatives
This is a kernel extension and clients that allow the MacBook to disable sleeping when the lid is closed. MOUNTAIN LION IS NOT SUPPORTED
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macOS-like
Add a screenshot
@home
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Free • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
13 @home alternatives
@home is a tiny convenience utility, that knows when you are at home (based on your wireless network name) and prevents your computer from locking the screen. When you are away from home, your normal locking idle times apply.
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Sits in the MenuBar
SmartSleep
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Paid • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
17 SmartSleep alternatives
SmartSleep lets you select each sleep state. Additionally the new SmartSleep state lets your notebook just sleep while the battery has a high level. If the battery level drops below a certain point (default is less then 20% or 20 minutes) it will switch to sleep and hibernate.
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Discontinued
Program hasn't been updated since 2013. No longer on app store.