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




Belay is described as 'Keeps your Mac awake while a coding agent is working. When the work stops, Belay gets out of the way and your Mac can sleep normally again' and is a prevent sleep mode app in the os & utilities category. There are nine alternatives to Belay for Mac. The best Belay alternative is Amphetamine, which is free. Other great apps like Belay are caffeinate & disablesleep, Caffeine for Mac, KeepingYouAwake and Lungo.
Amphetamine is a little app that lives in your menu bar which can effortlessly override your energy saver settings and keep your Mac awake.




caffeinate & disablesleep replaces two macOS terminal commands: caffeinate -disu and sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1. One click keeps the Mac awake, with an option to stay awake when the lid is closed. Timed sessions run from 15 minutes to 8 hours, or forever.



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.

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.




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.

Prevent your Mac from falling asleep, dimming your screen or starting the screensaver. Theine keeps macOS awake just like caffeine does with you.




Espresso is a Caffeine alternative with support for retina displays and the black or white menu bar introduced in OS X Yosemite.

Anti-Sleep App for your Mac.
Caffeinated prevents your Mac from going to sleep, dimming your screen or starting the screensaver.



