---
title: "Open Caffeine: Keep your Mac awake"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/open-caffeine-keep-your-mac-awake-rtwuusbe3
source_url: https://www.producthunt.com/products/open-caffeine
type: article
source: "Product Hunt"
published: 2026-06-01T07:41:54.602Z
updated: 2026-06-01T07:42:11.997Z
tags: ["open-source", "mac"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 68
comments: 20
language: en
---

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# Open Caffeine: Keep your Mac awake

**[Product Hunt](https://daily.dev/sources/ph)** · 1 min read · 68 upvotes · 20 comments

## Summary

Open Caffeine is a native, open source macOS menu bar utility that prevents your Mac from sleeping. It offers preset durations, a custom timer, screen sleep toggle, global hotkey, countdown display in the menu bar, and automatic stop at low battery. Built for Apple Silicon, it aims to be a modern, minimal alternative to the original Caffeine app.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@gregerolsson** · 6 upvotes

> Well done! A native application for once.
>
> For a quick-and-dirty keep-alive when running coding agents, for instance, the macOS built-in `caffeinate` can also be helpful:
>
> ```
> caffeinate -i claude
> ```

**@doncho** · 5 upvotes

> I'm using Amphetamine (that's the app, ok? 😀) for years. I find it weird only when I need to explain it somewhere, like just right now, here.
>
>
> I'll check this tool, looks interesting!

**@alexdonner** · 3 upvotes

> What if we set seep to never it will work or not ? or  this tool has something special that avoid sleep only if agent is live and in action ?

**@spookyshoes** · 1 upvotes

> I thought [Caffeine ](https://www.caffeine-app.net/en/)was already open source? I used on my Mac like 10 years ago and it was the same program. Were they removed?

**@kennethng** · 0 upvotes

> The UI looks nice.  On Battery setting makes this app useful

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