# newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake

Prevents your Mac from going to sleep.

Repository: https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/keepingyouawake
Homepage: https://keepingyouawake.app
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: macos, objective-c, caffeine, menubar, utility
Last push: 2026-08-15T11:38:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 72/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 23, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4336, "days_push": 18, "days_rel": 355, "gap_med": 160.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6859, forks 264 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:50.940117+00:00)

## What it is
KeepingYouAwake is a small macOS menu bar utility that prevents your Mac from going to sleep, either for a predefined duration or indefinitely while active. It is a lightweight wrapper around Apple's built-in caffeinate command line tool, inspired by the discontinued Caffeine app.

## Use cases
- keep my mac awake during a long download
- prevent mac from sleeping while presenting
- caffeine alternative for macos
- stop my macbook display from dimming during a demo
- keep the screen on while watching a video
- temporarily disable sleep with a timer from the menu bar

## When to choose
- you want a simple, free, open-source menu bar app to prevent sleep on macOS
- you want a maintained replacement for Caffeine
- you prefer a tool built on Apple's official caffeinate utility
- you need predefined activation durations or low-battery auto-disable

## When to avoid
- you need to keep a MacBook awake with the lid closed
- you need fine-grained power management beyond sleep prevention
- you are not on macOS

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: developer-tools, gui
- domain: operating-systems, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: menubar, caffeinate, sleep-prevention, utility, caffeine-alternative, command-line, macos

## Member repositories
- newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake (main) score 72

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:50.940117+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:41:43.668617+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:50.940117+00:00, sha 26cc0d4c8633)
  - homepage: https://keepingyouawake.app (fetched 2026-08-29T08:37:39.504583+00:00, sha 359a489b1155)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.