LidPilot — Your Mac. On your time.
Keep your Mac running, your way — free & open source
Details
- External ID
- 1262371
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- LidPilot — Your Mac. On your time.
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Open Source, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
LidPilot is a native macOS menu-bar utility built around Follow Lid: keep your screen available while the lid is open, then keep your Mac running when you close it. It also includes Keep Screen On, Keep Mac Running, timed sessions, battery/thermal safeguards, signed updates and local diagnostics. 100% free and open source. No account. No analytics. Apple Silicon, macOS 15+.
Enrichment
- Theme
- focus timers and task planners
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mac sleep management utility for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native macOS menu bar app wrapping standard macOS power management APIs (`IOPMAssertionCreateWithName`) and sleep prevention hooks like Amphetamine or caffeinate.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 258 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #159 of 259 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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