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This app helps users maintain their free Heroku applications by preventing them from going to sleep during periods of inactivity. Free Heroku apps automatically sleep when unused, which can cause delays for users. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A little app to keep your free Heroku apps awake launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Mat-cha▲87

    Keep your free Heroku app awake forever

    2020 · matc-ha.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Automatically put your Heroku apps to sleep, so you save 💵

    2020 · autoidle.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3PY
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    Keep your Heroku app awake

    2015 · kaffeine.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    coolLabs: Software without compromise. Free, open source, and built for you.

    2021 · coollabs.io · its alternatives →

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    Keepresso▲129

    Keep your Mac awake, on your terms. Free and open source

    Jul 2026 · keepresso.com · its alternatives →

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    Coolify▲419

    An open-source & self-hostable Heroku, Netlify alternative

    2022 · coolify.io · its alternatives →

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    An easy way to manage all your Heroku backups

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Gameify sleep to improve millions of lives

    2022 · sleepagotchi.com · its alternatives →

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    Porter▲415

    Heroku that runs in your own cloud

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Heroku CI▲208

    Continuous Integration from Heroku

    2017 · devcenter.heroku.com · its alternatives →

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    Free forever website monitoring & status pages 🤩

    2018 · freshworks.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13PY

    There's often times I want to prevent a computer/laptop/VM from sleeping and while, yes, there's various Caffeine/Amphetamine apps they're often overkill. Instead, this small (12Kb) page does the job and only needs a web browser. It's just a very simple usage of a web api normally used for things like video players: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake...

    2022 · nosleep.page · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosting platform with superpowers. Deploy apps, databases & 280+ services to your server. Open-source alternative to Heroku.

    2022 · coolify.io · its alternatives →

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    Block social media until you've actually slept

    Jun 2026 · hypersleep.app · its alternatives →

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    Heroku▲115

    Cloud application platform

    2014 · heroku.com · its alternatives →

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    Lungo▲285

    Keeps your Mac awake

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Keep your Mac awake

    Oct 2025 · lucas.io · its alternatives →

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    Vanish▲135

    Automatically Hide/Close inactive apps

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Scale and debug your Heroku dynos on the go (Android only)

    2014 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22OS

    Startup Weekend just started in our city and we thought we'll build a Heroku autoscaler that really works, and saves you not only from slowly building traffic but from the slashdot effect as well.<p>Those who tried out ddollar's gem (and all forks of it) or even Heroscale know that the problem's not so trivial to solve.<p>We hope people will get it, and pay a small monthly fee to save many days of inrastructure coding so they can focus on business logic instead.<p>URL is: http://scalefu.com/

    2011 · scalefu.com · its alternatives →

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    Turboku▲95

    Make your Heroku web dynos 60% faster with fly.io

    2020 · fly.io · its alternatives →

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    Got tired of reaching for the terminal to caffeinate my mac and tweaking system settings Now got a new friend in my menubar Enjoy!

    Aug 2026 · agentsneversleep.app · its alternatives →

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