Open Caffeine
An open-source macOS menu-bar utility that keeps your Mac awake for a chosen duration, with timers, hotkeys, and battery protection.
An open-source macOS menu-bar utility that keeps your Mac awake for a chosen duration, with timers, hotkeys, and battery protection.
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- What is Open Caffeine?
- An open-source macOS menu-bar utility that keeps your Mac awake for a chosen duration, with timers, hotkeys, and battery protection.
- Who is it for?
- Mac users who need timed keep-awake sessions during downloads or long jobs; better than Amphetamine for open-source transparency and EdDSA-verified updates.
- Pricing
- unknown
Product information
What this product does
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 threshold. It is open source, Apple Silicon native, and built for people who want a simple, modern Caffeine-style utility without extra marketing menu items.
Sourced from github.com
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Platforms
- Web
- iOS
Problem Solved
What problem does Open Caffeine solve?
It's for Mac users who need their machine to stay awake during long downloads, builds, presentations, or remote sessions. Today they either fiddle with System Settings or run caffeinate in a terminal, and they often forget to turn it off, draining the battery. Open Caffeine puts a timed keep-awake toggle in the menu bar, with separate control over display sleep and system sleep, so you can set 5 minutes to 8 hours or keep-awake-forever and let it stop itself. For example, you start a 2-hour backup, click the menu-bar icon, pick 2 hours, and walk away knowing the Mac won't sleep mid-transfer.
Company & Maker
Who built Open Caffeine?
- Company
- WeTrials (github.com)
- Product
- An open-source macOS menu-bar utility that keeps your Mac awake for a chosen duration, with timers, hotkeys, and battery protection.
- HQ
- Airdrie
- Live since
- Jun 2026
- Founders
- DongHun Choi
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Open Caffeine is a native macOS menu bar utility that keeps your Mac awake for a chosen duration, from 5-minute sessions to an indefinite keep-awake mode. It is used by Mac users who need to prevent display or system sleep during downloads, presentations, long-running jobs, or media playback.
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Best-fit workflows
- Keep your Mac awake during a long download or backup
- Prevent display sleep during a presentation
- Use a global shortcut to toggle keep-awake
- Protect battery with a threshold that stops the session
- Keeps a Mac awake during a multi-hour download or build so the system does not sleep mid-task.
- Prevents display sleep during a presentation or video playback while allowing system sleep settings to remain separate.
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Open-source macOS utility; public summary describes it as open source, so no mandatory license fee is documented.
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Starting price
From $ 4 USD
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