JigTail
A menu-bar mouse jiggler that keeps your Mac awake
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Details
- External ID
- 1269273
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- JigTail
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.94
- Tags
- Mac, Open Source, Menu Bar Apps
Description
JigTail waits until you're idle, then nudges your cursor just enough to keep sleep and the screensaver away. Free, native, and open source for macOS.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macos menu bar utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- menu bar mouse jiggler to keep macs awake
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu bar utility using CGEvents or IOKit APIs to nudge the cursor after detecting an idle threshold is a tiny, standard native Swift project.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 320 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #36 of 321 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 337 days after the earliest competitor.
- LidAwake · github · 2026-10-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Auto Mouse Mover - Anti Sleep · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Pungo · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Extra Cup · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- meowse · github · 2026-10-06 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app · hn · 2026-08-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- CursorArc · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Lockpaw One hotkey to cover your Mac screen without putting it to sleep · hn · 2026-03-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
Other launches for this product
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