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Awake
Menu bar switch that keeps your Mac from sleeping, inspired by Caffeine, with AppleScript control.
Unmaintained · Free download · Downloads from github.com
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- xiaozi
- Verified
- 2026
Unmaintained
No commit since November 2021 and no release since May 2015 (checked 2026-11-06).
About Awake
Awake keeps your Mac awake from a menu bar icon: a left click toggles the setting and a right click opens the menu. The README also shows AppleScript commands to switch it on or off, and says that "run at login" only works when the app is in the Applications folder. It is modelled on the Caffeine utility and suits anyone who wants a single switch rather than a scheduler.
The latest release, 1.5.2, dates from May 2015, and its bundle reports version 1.6. It is an Intel (x86_64) build with a minimum of macOS 10.10, so Apple silicon Macs run it through Rosetta 2. It is unsigned and not notarized, so the first launch has to be allowed in System Settings. The last commit is from November 2021.
Information
- Source code
- xiaozi/awake-app
- License
- MIT
- Website
- github.com
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Utilities
- Alternative to
- Amphetamine
- Topics
- Menu bar apps
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/xiaozi/awake-app
- github.com/xiaozi/awake-app/blob/master/LICENSE
- github.com/xiaozi/awake-app/releases
- icon.png: xiaozi (Awake author). MIT; app icon, trademarks retained.
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