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Products that do what A sleeping pet on the Mac menu bar does

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   MonkeyMind – A shortcut-driven to-do list for your Mac's menu bar▲99

   2020 · apps.apple.com

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   NightOwl▲321

   Easily toggle your Macs Dark Mode with this menubar app.

   2019

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   Mac Pet▲134

   A pixel pet for your menu bar or MacBook notch w/ Pomodoro

   Apr 2026

4. 4
   Keepresso▲129

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

   Jul 2026 · keepresso.com

5. 5
   Open Caffeine▲164

   Keep your Mac awake

   Jun 2026

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   Shifty▲165

   More control over macOS Night Shift

   2017

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   Hocus Focus▲304

   A Mac menu bar utility that hides your inactive windows

   2014

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   Artful for Mac▲229

   2014 · artfulmac.com

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   Mouse Jiggler for Mac▲139

   Prevent your Mac from sleeping

   2025

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    CozyPet▲70

    A tiny pixel pet that lives on your Mac desktop.

    2025

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    Glowix▲83

    Keep your Mac display awake exactly when you need it

    May 2026

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    Zight▲203

    Record videos/GIFs from the menu bar, with all new features!

    2016

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    Sleepless Mac – Status bar app that prevents your mac from sleeping▲6

    2018 · github.com

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    Macdown▲87

    2014 · github.com

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    Cooldown▲129

    Quickly toggle Low Power Mode on your Mac from the menubar

    2021

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    Surfdeck▲125

    Your tabs, within reach.

    16d ago · surfdeck.app

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    Clyde▲82

    No more asking strangers if they could watch your stuff

    2023

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    Utility to change macOS Big Sur menu bar color▲96

    2020 · github.com

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    My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app▲8

    Hi HN, like many of you likely do, I run cron jobs throughout the day/night, but can't afford to have my laptop open all day. So, I decided to build goguma, a free, open-source Mac menu bar app that wakes your Mac only when a cron job/automation is scheduled to run. Unlike caffeinate, Amphetamine, or Adrafinil, which can only keep an awake machine awake, goguma can wake a sleeping machine. It automatically imports all your jobs across launchd, crontab, Hermes, etc, alongside detecting agent activity through hooks. The Mac menu bar app will also show you which job it'll next wake…

    18d ago · github.com

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    Coca 2.0▲83

    Keep Your Mac and Apps Awake!

    May 2026

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    Termini – Open-Source Menu Bar Terminal for macOS▲6

    May 2026 · github.com

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    Sesame, the wireless Mac lock▲43

    2013 · atama.io

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    A device I built to improve my sleep▲25

    2020 · biotinker.dev

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    BeforeShutdown – a macOS menubar todo app with reminders on system off▲9

    2020 · beforeshutdown.app

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