KeepingYouAwake 1.6.5
Prevents your Mac from going into sleep mode
| Category: | Utilities |
| Price: | Free |
| Popularity: | Medium |
| Version String: | 1.6.5 (1060501) |
| Release Date: | 2023-10-02 |
| Architecture: | Intel & AppleSilicon(ARM) |
| Minimum OS: | macOS 10.13 |
| Vendor Name: | Marcel Dierkes |
| Homepage: | keepingyouawake.app |
Install App via MacUpdater:
This link works only when MacUpdater is installed on your Mac
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Version History 1.6.5 (1060501)
• updated the Traditional Chinese translation (#198)
◦ Thank you YuerLee!
• updated the French translation (#201)
◦ Thank you tmuguet!
• removed the advanced setting "Disable menu bar icon highlight color", this behavior can still be enabled using the defaults command: defaults write info.marcel-dierkes.KeepingYouAwake info.marcel-dierkes.KeepingYouAwake.MenuBarIconHighlightDisabled -bool YES
Description:
KeepingYouAwake is a small menu bar utility for macOS that can prevent your Mac from entering sleep mode for a predefined duration or as long as it is activated.
How does it work?
The app is a small wrapper around Apple’s caffeinate command line utility. All current versions of macOS ship with this tool by default.
Is this dangerous?
This utility will not harm your Mac because it is based on an official command line tool by Apple. BUT I cannot guarantee anything, so use this tool AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Inspired by Caffeine
_KeepingYouAwake_ is inspired by _Caffeine_ from _Lighthead Software_. I used it for many years, but sadly it hasn’t been updated in a while. Eventually in 2014 I decided to build a replacement for myself that was optimized for macOS Yosemite and used the caffeinate command line tool under the hood.
Building the Source Code
_KeepingYouAwake_ uses Sparkle’s ui-separation-and-xpc branch to deliver updates. You can build and sign Sparkle with make Vendor. To build a release version of the app just run make dist.
