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Caffeine for Mac

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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.

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  • Free • Open Source

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  • Mac
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The last version (1.1.3) is from May 2020.

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  1.  Ad-free
  2.  No registration required
  3.  No Tracking
  4.  Sits in the MenuBar

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  •  29 Forks
  •  3 Open Issues
  •   Updated Oct 10, 2022 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Caffeine for Mac, and it has gotten 91 likes

Caffeine for Mac was added to AlternativeTo by Josep on Apr 14, 2009 and this page was last updated Apr 29, 2024. Caffeine for Mac is sometimes referred to as Caffeine.

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RemovedUser
Mar 23, 2016
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There are a couple good alternatives these days. I used the open source KeepingYouAwake for a while (available on github). Now I'm using Amphetamine, which does everything these apps do and more, and with more customization options. It's available in the app store.

What is Caffeine for Mac?

Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon on 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. Right-click (or Command-click) the icon to show the menu.

Originally developed by Tomas Franzén of Lighthead Software in 2006, Caffeine is a well known and loved utility for many Mac users, and its simplicity has allowed it to continue working perfectly long after active development ceased.

Unfortunately for many users, Caffeine began experiencing problems with the release of macOS Mojave, due to the enhanced privacy controls introduced, which prevent Caffeine from functioning correctly.

We reached out to Tomas to inquire if we could continue development of Caffeine, as we believe it fits nicely with our vision of software that is simple, flexible, and powerful.

Tomas has graciously provided the source code under an open source license, allowing us to continue developing Caffeine where he left off.

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