Amphetamine

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

Free Mac

Caffeine for Mac

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...

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated and seems not to work. Last version, 1.1.1, released in December 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Mac

Don't Sleep

Don't Sleep is a small portable program to prevent system shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off and Restart.

Free Windows

InsomniaX

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...

• Discontinued The software is discontinued from July 2017 http://semaja2.net/2017/06/thank-you-and-farewell-for-now/

Free Mac

Lungo

Lungo prevents your Mac from falling asleep and your screen from dimming. This can be useful when: - Doing a presentation at work - Watching YouTube videos in...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

Coffee Buzz

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...

Free Mac

NoDoze

NoDoze simulates keyboard/mouse activity to keep the screensaver from activating. Its activity depends on currently running programs. You can use regular expressions or...

Free Open Source Windows

NoSleep

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...

Free Open Source Mac

Should I Sleep

Annoyed by the display getting dim when you're reading or watching something? What if the computer could “see and hear” you? By using a combination of heuristic...

Commercial Mac

Sleep Preventer

Prevents your computer from going to sleep, hibernate, dim the display or start the screensaver. Application runs in the system tray when closed. New in version v1.3:...

Free Windows

SleepLess

This application is used to prevent the computer from going to sleep without changing system settings can disable sleep with lid closed Safe Sleep (Hibernate) with...

Commercial Mac

Sleep No More

A tiny menu bar application, that prevents your Mac from sleeping for a set amount of time.

Free Mac

SleepTime

SleepTime is a light-weight app that lives on your menu bar, letting you easily set a timer to put your Mac on sleep automatically after a specified time period you...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

SmartSleep

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...

• Discontinued Program hasn't been updated since 2013. No longer on app store.

Commercial Mac