LidPilot — Your Mac. On your time.
Keep your Mac running, your way — free & open source
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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+.
PH · launched Sep 28, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 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
- Mac
- Open Source
- 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 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 : 610 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #528 of 611 (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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- DisplayPilot · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- CuePilot · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Open Caffeine · ph · 2026-06-01 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- double-shot · github · 2026-10-26 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MacMiniMode · github · 2026-10-07 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- SoloDisplay · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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