
That’s a great way to support indie developers like me. If you like the app, please take a moment to rate it on the Mac App Store. – Observing live stats or long-running tasks on your screen – Having a conference call or video chat via Zoom, Google Hangout, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc. – Optimized for Mac with M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max (Apple Silicon)ĭisclaimer: Theine will not prevent your MacBook from sleeping if you close its lid. – Optimized for macOS 11 (Big Sur) and macOS 12 (Monterey) – “Auto-deactivate on low battery” option It follows the idea “as little design as possible”. It is optimised for high-definition retina displays. Theine looks brilliant in light and dark mode. You can set a custom default duration or choose to caffeinate your Mac infinitely. The timer feature allows you to control exactly how long Theine should be activated. It is fast, lightweight and works great on macOS 10.12 and above. Theine keeps macOS awake just like caffeine does with you.Ĭaffeinate your Mac with a simple click on its menubar icon or define a custom global hot key.

or x characters - which indicate from hour 0 to hour 23 of the day.Prevent your Mac from falling asleep, dimming the screen or starting your screensaver. -watchwindow:xx - active only when a window with xx in the title is found.-darkicons - use icons which work better for dark-on-light colour schemes.-oldicons - use more colourful tray icons.-keypress - simulate a full key press, not just a key up event.Note: the codes on the linked page are in Hex, convert them to decimal for use with this parameter -key:xx - simulate using virtual key code xx.-allowss - prevent sleep, but allow the screensaver to start.-ontaskbar - show a task bar button (use with -showdlg).-showdlg - shows a dialog indicating whether caffeine is active.Shows the caffeine amount in your body based on model derived from research. It is not intended to be used as a medical device, but as a demonstration of the pharmacokinetics of caffeine. It helps you learn to use caffeine products more wisely. -useshift - simulate the shift key instead of F15 This App provides a simulation of caffeine amount and some indications of the psychological effects.-noicon - does not show a task tray icon.-replace - closes the current running instance, replacing it.-apptoggleshowdlg - toggles the running state, and shows dialog.-apptoggle - toggles the running state of the current running instance of the application.-appoff - makes the current running instance of the application inactive.

-appon - makes the current running instance of the application active.-appexit - terminates current running instance of application.-inactivefor:xx - application will become active after xx minutes.-activefor:xx - application will become inactive after xx minutes.-exitafter:xx - application will terminate after xx minutes.-startoff - application starts disabled.This must be the first text on the commandline xx - where xx is a number which sets the number of seconds between simulated keypresses.There are some command line switches you can use to alter this behaviour: – charlie137 Sep 26 '18 at 6:43 I believe, and could of course be mistaken, that Caffeine is just a GUI wrapper for caffeinate.īy default the app starts enabled, and works every 59 seconds. And it finally just lost its magic on mojave. I was looking for the same app like Caffeine, that wasn't updated since 2009. Just right-click on the icon in your menu bar to prevent your screen from going to sleep. Caffeinated is not only very convenient but also easy to use. The system will go to the idle state when the job is over. Use it to download a large file without being interrupted when you are not present. Keep the system awake while downloading a file.

Caffeinated is a Mac Menu Bar App that prevents your Mac from going to sleep, dimming your screen or starting the screensaver. Keep the system awake for a specified period (from 5 minutes to 24 hours) and allow the system to sleep afterward. Caffeine is a free app that stops your MacBook's screen from dimming-regardless of the current settings in the system preferences-so that you. Do you know of other apps for keeping the Mac awake aside from Caffeine, Amphetamine and KeepingYouAwake? Caffeine Review. Pictured top of post: Caffeine for Mac in action. For me, Caffeine doesn’t quite cut it anymore and I don’t see any advantage to using it over Amphetamine, which I’ve been using happily for quite some time now.
