Kipless
A lightweight macOS utility for controlling system and display sleep.
Details
- External ID
- 1365563894
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- Kipless
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.05976172175249808
- Tags
- iokit, macos, menu-bar, open-source, sleep, swift, swiftui, utility
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:03 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:03 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- sleep management utility for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A standard macOS menu bar app wrapping Apple's `IOPMAssertionCreateWithName` API (similar to Caffeine or Amphetamine) to prevent sleep.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 944 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #911 of 945 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- timebar · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Vitals · hn · 2026-09-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Calyx · hn · 2026-03-12 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Wokyintosh · github · 2026-09-09 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- WonderBox · github · 2026-09-20 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- ratio · github · 2026-09-13 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Synapse · hn · 2026-06-02 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- MacBook-Duo · github · 2026-09-11 · 127 upvotes · similarity 0.61
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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