NoSleep Alternatives for Mac
There are many alternatives to NoSleep for Mac and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Amphetamine, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to NoSleep and 17 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to NoSleep are Caffeine for Mac, Should I Sleep, Lungo and InsomniaX.
44 Amphetamine alternatives- Free • Proprietary
- Prevent Sleep Mode App
- Mac
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 NoSleep.
- - Amphetamine is the most popular free alternative to NoSleep.
Amphetamine Features
44 Caffeine for Mac alternatives- Free • Proprietary
- Prevent Sleep Mode App
- 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 starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.
Caffeine for Mac Features
DiscontinuedThe last version (1.1.3) is from May 2020.
32 Should I Sleep alternatives- Paid • Proprietary
- Prevent Sleep Mode App
- Mac
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 NoSleep.
Should I Sleep Features
39 Lungo alternatives- Paid • Proprietary
- Prevent Sleep Mode App
- Mac
Keeps your Mac awake.
Lungo Features
30 InsomniaX alternatives- Free • Proprietary
- Prevent Sleep Mode App
- Mac
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.
InsomniaX Features
DiscontinuedThe software is discontinued from July 2017http://semaja2.net/2017/06/thank-you-and-farewell-for-now/
42 Theine alternatives- Paid • Proprietary
- Prevent Sleep Mode App
- Mac
Prevent your Mac from falling asleep, dimming your screen or starting the screensaver. Theine keeps macOS awake just like caffeine does with you.
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.
DiscontinuedThe 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/
24 InsomniaT alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Prevent Sleep Mode App
- Mac
This is a kernel extension and clients that allow the MacBook to disable sleeping when the lid is closed. MOUNTAIN LION IS NOT SUPPORTED
InsomniaT Features
17 SmartSleep alternatives- Paid • Proprietary
- Prevent Sleep Mode App
- Mac
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.
DiscontinuedProgram hasn't been updated since 2013. No longer on app store.
Deep Sleep is a simple Dashboard widget which allows users to put their computer into hibernation mode, also sometimes called software suspend mode. This widget only works on a limited number of Apple computer models.
Discontinued
Keep System Awake.
24 SleepLess alternatives- Paid • Proprietary
- Prevent Sleep Mode App
- Mac
This application is used to prevent the computer from going to sleep without changing system settings
SleepLess Features