Open Caffeine: An Open-Source macOS Menu Bar App to Keep Your Mac Awake
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Hoon Choi
7h ago· 1 min readenProduct
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Summary
Open Caffeine is a native, open-source macOS menu bar app that keeps your Mac awake for a chosen duration. It offers presets, custom timers, screen sleep toggling, global hotkeys, countdown display, and automatic stop at low battery. Built for Apple Silicon, it provides a simple, modern alternative to traditional Caffeine-style utilities without bloat or marketing extras.
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It is open source, Apple Silicon native, and built for people who want a simple, modern Caffeine-style utility without extra marketing menu items.
Pick presets, set a custom timer, toggle screen sleep behavior, use a global hotkey, show a countdown in the menu bar, and stop automatically at a low battery threshold.
Open Caffeine is a native macOS menu bar app for keeping your Mac awake for a chosen duration. Pick presets, set a custom timer, toggle screen sleep behavior, use a global hotkey, show a countdown in the menu bar, and stop automatically at a low battery t
