Free and open-source macOS menu bar toolkit.
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Aug 13, 2026 - Swift
Free and open-source macOS menu bar toolkit.
Use a MacBook as a closed-lid server while setting the built-in display to zero brightness.
Keep your Mac awake on your terms. A native macOS menu-bar app with condition-based triggers, closed-display mode, and a headless-Mac toolkit. Built for AI agents, servers, and always-on Macs.
Keep Your Mac Awayke With the Lid Closed
Keep your Mac awake from the menu bar, even with the lid closed. caffeinate -disu and sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1, one click. 2.2 MB only.
Keep your MacBook awake with the lid closed, on battery, with no external display. A native menu-bar app that uses pmset disablesleep, with an auto-off timer and a battery-floor cutoff so it can't drain your Mac. The open-source, MIT alternative to Amphetamine.
布谷 · 给长跑 coding agent 的「声音信标」:防止 Mac 休眠,每次状态变化用声音提醒,一键跳回正确的终端标签页。 | Bugu — a sound beacon for long-running coding agents: keeps your Mac awake, chirps on every state change, and jumps you back to the exact terminal tab.
🌙 Instantly switch macOS screen timeout from your menu bar — no more digging through System Settings. Preset timers, instant lock, keep awake, display off, or auto re-lock after you step away. Perfect for meetings, cafés & shared workspaces. 菜单栏一键切换屏幕超时,不用再翻系统设置:预设倒计时、立即锁屏、保持唤醒、熄屏、离开自动重锁。开会、咖啡厅、共享办公必备。
Secure remote control for Claude Code with E2E encryption. Monitor, approve, and respond to agent prompts from your phone via mobile app and push notifications.
Thermal throttling protection for Apple Silicon by Paweł Kwaczyński: pause heavy processes before overheating, black-box crash evidence, AI-agent aware.
☕ Caffeinate your Mac — a tiny menu-bar app that keeps macOS awake. ~120 lines of Swift, zero deps, no kexts. Built locally because MDM blocked everything else.
Free, open-source Mac menu-bar Duck that keeps your Mac awake — local AI agents, model servers, renders, downloads. Lid closed, on battery. No telemetry.
Run Codex and Claude Code reliably in the background on macOS—with a native dashboard, persistent tmux sessions, local checkpoints, recovery, notifications, and closed-lid support.
Keep your Mac awake from the menu bar, even with the lid closed. A free, open source caffeine / Amphetamine alternative for macOS, built for developers running long jobs and AI agents.
Keep your Mac awake with the lid closed — without burning battery. A menubar app for AI-agent and long-running-build sessions.
Lightweight macOS menu-bar app that keeps your Mac awake while Claude Code is active.
LidRun keeps your Mac awake with the lid closed — so Claude Code, Cursor, Docker and Ollama keep running with timers, charging-only mode, low-battery stop and battery/thermal guardrails.
Free menu bar toolkit for macOS: Pomodoro timer, time tracker, keep-awake, system monitor, clipboard history, file converter, window manager, torrents, file archives, text recognition (OCR), color picker, keyboard lock. Swift + SwiftUI, 18 languages, no telemetry — everything stays on your Mac.
Keep your Mac awake while Claude Code / Codex runs — even with the lid closed — then let it sleep when they're done. macOS menu bar app.
Amphetamine-style KDE Plasma 6 widget that prevents system sleep while letting the screen turn off. Lightweight plasmoid built on systemd-inhibit. KDE alternative to Caffeine / Amphetamine for Linux.
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