Caffeinated Alternatives

Caffeine for 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...

Amphetamine

Amphetamine is a little app that lives in your menu bar which can effortlessly override your energy saver settings and keep your Mac awake.

Features:

• Customizable triggers
• Schedule session
• Sits in the System Tray

Caffeine for Linux

Inspired by the Mac OS X version, Caffeine for Linux is a status bar application able to temporarily prevent the activation of both the screensaver and the...

Caffeine for Windows

If you have problems with your PC locking or going to sleep, caffeine will keep it awake. It works by simulating a keypress once every 59 seconds, so your machine thinks...

Features:

• Optimized for Windows
• Portable

Don't Sleep

Don't Sleep is a small portable program to prevent system shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off and Restart.

KeepingYouAwake

A Caffeine clone for macOS Yosemite, El Capitan and Sierra (including Dark Mode).

Econap

Put your pc to sleep when it's REALLY idle - no interrupted downloads, no wasted energy.

Features:

• Customizable
• Configurable
• Portable
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
• Sits in the System Tray
• Windows 10

InsomniaX

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...

Should I Sleep

Annoyed by the display getting dim when you're reading or watching something? What if the computer could “see and hear” you? By using a combination of heuristic...

Features:

• Face detection
• Motion detection

Keep Screen On

Annoyed by your screen turning off when you're using certain apps? Don't change your display settings and waste battery by keeping the screen on when the home...