Open Caffeine
Keep your Mac awake
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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.
PH · launched Jun 1, 2026 · 162 upvotes (top 93%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 312 launches in macos menu bar utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward native macOS menu bar wrapper around standard macOS power management assertions (IOPMAssertionCreateWithName).
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 824 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #820 of 825 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 184 days after the earliest competitor.
- Extra Cup · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- Caffeine-for-Windows · github · 2026-09-28 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- caffeinate-plus · github · 2026-10-23 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- LidAwake · github · 2026-10-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- double-shot · github · 2026-10-26 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app · hn · 2026-08-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Hold Sleep · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Let It Brew · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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