Name: Keep Awake
Author: Speranda

Overview

Keep Awake stops your Mac from going to sleep, with no settings to dig through and no commands to remember. Click the coffee cup in your menu bar, choose what you want, and you're done.

Decide whether the screen stays on or is free to turn off while your Mac keeps working. It's perfect for long downloads, backups, builds, renders, or presentations. Then pick how long: leave it on until you stop it, choose a preset from 15 minutes to 5 hours, set your own custom time, or have it switch off automatically when a chosen app quits.

Your AI coding agents can keep your Mac awake too. When an agent like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex starts a long task, it can hold off sleep until the work is done, then let your Mac rest again. Open Settings, pick your tool, and copy the one line it shows to connect. You stay in control the whole time: the menu shows which agents are keeping the Mac awake and lets you release any of them, and an agent that forgets to let go is released automatically after a few hours. Your own on and off always comes first.

It lives quietly in the menu bar, with no Dock clutter and no window in your way. The cup fills in when it's active and shows the time remaining at a glance, so you'll never leave it running by accident. Assign a keyboard shortcut to flip it on and off from anywhere, and turn on Open at Login to have it ready every time you start your Mac.

Lightweight and native to macOS, it remembers your preferences, keeps itself up to date, and never gets "stuck." The moment you turn it off, your Mac sleeps normally again.

Highlights

Let your AI coding agents keep the Mac awake during long tasks
See and release the agents keeping your Mac awake
Keep the screen on, or let it sleep while your Mac stays awake
Stay awake until you stop it, for a set time, or until an app quits
Quick presets plus your own custom durations
Live status and time-left in the menu bar
Global keyboard shortcut to toggle on/off
Open at Login and automatic updates
Tiny, native, and stays out of your way

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Where to get Keep Awake

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Direct from speranda.comDownload (Apple Silicon)

Requires macOS 13 Ventura or later, Apple silicon.

2 MB

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v2.1.0.
Jul 22, 2026Download (Apple Silicon)

👀 See who is keeping your Mac awake: the menu lists each AI agent that is holding it, with what it is doing and how long it has held
Release one agent yourself: let go of a single agent from the menu, without turning the others off or quitting anything
Automatic release: an agent that forgets to let go is released on its own after a time limit you choose, three hours by default
Choose the limit in Settings: one, two, three, or four hours, or turn automatic release off
Releases take effect within a few seconds, and a released agent stays released until it asks for another turn

v2.0.0.
Jun 25, 2026Download (Apple Silicon)

🤖 Your AI coding agents can keep the Mac awake: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other agents hold off sleep while a long task runs, then let it sleep when they're done
Connect in one step: pick your tool in the new Settings window and copy the single line it shows
A redesigned Settings window: Open at Login, the keyboard shortcut, updates, and AI agent access, all in one clean place
You stay in charge: turn AI access off any time to stop every agent at once, and your own on and off always comes first
Built so it never sticks: several agents can keep the Mac awake together, and one that quits or crashes can't keep it awake forever

v1.0.0.
Jun 18, 2026Download (Apple Silicon)

☕ One click to stay awake: lives in the menu bar, with no Dock icon and no windows
Screen, your choice: keep the screen on, or let it sleep while the Mac keeps running (downloads, builds, renders)
Turn off automatically: never, a preset from 15 minutes up to 5 hours, a custom time, or when a chosen app quits
Global keyboard shortcut to toggle from anywhere, with no Accessibility permission required
Open at Login, and it remembers your settings between launches
The menu bar always shows the status: whether it's on, whether the screen stays on, and how much time is left
Automatic updates built in