LidAwake
macOS menu bar app that keeps your Mac awake, even with the lid closed
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Details
- External ID
- 1403703596
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- LidAwake
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10938204781235904
- Tags
- caffeinate, clamshell, homebrew-cask, keep-awake, macos, macos-app, macos-application, macos-menubar, menu-bar, open-source, sleep, swift, swiftui
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS desktop and window utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mac menu bar app for keeping laptops awake
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard macOS menu bar utility that utilizes system power assertions (IOPMAssertionCreateWithName) or caffeinate wrappers to prevent sleep with the lid closed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 702 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #656 of 703 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
- Extra Cup · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- timebar · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- quietglass · github · 2026-09-20 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- DuoFlip · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- meowse · github · 2026-10-06 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- FluidFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Termini · hn · 2026-05-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.64
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.