Caffeinated Alternatives

Caffeinated is described as 'simple utility to prevent your PC from going to sleep. It places an icon near the clock. Click the icon to keep your PC awake. Click it again allow automatic sleep. Caffeinated is heavily inspired by Caffeine for OS X' and is a prevent sleep mode app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Caffeinated for Mac, Windows, Android and Linux. The best Caffeinated alternative is Amphetamine, which is free. Other great apps like Caffeinated are Caffeine for Windows, Caffeine for Mac, Caffeine for Linux and KeepingYouAwake.

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Caffeinated

Free • Open Source
Prevent Sleep Mode App

Caffeinated is a simple utility to prevent your PC from going to sleep. It places an icon near the clock. Click the icon to...

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Amphetamine
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Free • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
42 Amphetamine alternatives
Welcome to Amphetamine4, the most awesome keep-awake utility ever created for macOS. Amphetamine can keep your Mac, and optionally its display, awake through a super simple on/off switch, or automatically through easy-to-configure Triggers.
- - Amphetamine is the most popular Mac alternative to Caffeinated.
- - Amphetamine is the most popular free alternative to Caffeinated.
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Sits in the System Tray
Customizable triggers
Caffeine for Windows
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Free • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Windows
29 Caffeine for Windows alternatives
If you have problems with your PC locking or going to sleep, caffeine will keep it awake. It works by simulating a keypress once every 59 seconds, so your machine thinks you're still working at the keyboard, so won't lock the screen or activate the screensaver.
- - Caffeine for Windows is the most popular Windows alternative to Caffeinated.
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Caffeine for Windows Features
1. PortableCaffeine for Windows can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Optimized for Windows
Caffeine for Mac
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Free • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
42 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.
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Caffeine for Mac Features
Sits in the MenuBar
Discontinued
The last version (1.1.3) is from May 2020.
Caffeine for Linux
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Free • Open Source
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Linux
28 Caffeine for Linux alternatives
Inspired by the Mac OS X version, Caffeine for Linux is a status bar application able to temporarily prevent the activation of both the screensaver and the "sleep" powersaving mode.
- - Caffeine for Linux is the most popular Linux alternative to Caffeinated.
- - Caffeine for Linux is the most popular Open Source alternative to Caffeinated.
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Caffeine for Linux Features
Sits in the System Tray
KeepingYouAwake
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Free • Open Source
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
23 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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KeepingYouAwake Features
Sits in the MenuBar
FOSS
Don't Sleep
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Free • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Windows
32 Don't Sleep alternatives
Don't Sleep is a small portable program to prevent system shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off and Restart.
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Don't Sleep Features
1. PortableDon't Sleep can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Sits in the System Tray
Should I Sleep
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Paid • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
31 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 Caffeinated.
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Should I Sleep Features
Face detection
Motion Detection
Econap
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Windows
28 Econap alternatives
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.
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Econap Features
1. PortableEconap can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Customizable
Configurable
Sits in the System Tray
InsomniaX
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Free • Proprietary
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Mac
29 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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InsomniaX Features
Sits in the System Tray
Discontinued
The software is discontinued from July 2017http://semaja2.net/2017/06/thank-you-and-farewell-for-now/
NoDoze
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Free • Open Source
Prevent Sleep Mode App
Windows
32 NoDoze alternatives
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.
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PleaseSleep
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
22 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/
NoSleep
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Free • Open Source
Mac
23 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