Open Caffeine
Keep your Mac awake
Details
- External ID
- 1160317
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Open Caffeine
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- June 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 162
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.07211538461538461
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- sleep, wake, and clock utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- prevent mac from sleeping
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 330 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #326 of 331 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 184 days after the earliest competitor.
- Caffeine-for-Windows · github · 2026-09-28 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app · hn · 2026-08-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Adrafinil · hn · 2026-06-27 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Caffeine-for-Vita · github · 2026-09-13 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- LidPilot — Your Mac. On your time. · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Catnap · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Keep My Screen On! · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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