Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Drive Caffeine
Keep your drives awake
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Keepresso▲129Keep your Mac awake, on your terms. Free and open source
Jul 2026 · keepresso.com · its alternatives →
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A caffeine tracker with attitude and no accountability
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Stay Awake▲95Keep your system awake while files are downloading
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Drive does not go to sleep unexpectedly
2018 · jon.stovell.info · its alternatives →
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UP Coffee▲82via Jawbone Labs: understand how caffeine affects your sleep
2014 · jawbone.com · its alternatives →
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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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A month ago there was a wave of posts and tweets about engineers walking around cafes and parks with their MacBooks propped half-open, as fully closing the lid forces sleep that stops their AI agents. Some people made snarky comments about using tmux or Amphetamine, and some defended their choice with “but I only need it sometimes, and forgetting to disable Amphetamine and finding my laptop discharged in my bag is worse.” This is a solution to this problem. Unlike caffeinate, it will prevent your MacBook from sleeping even with the lid closed, with no external power or display, using pmset…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Track your caffeine intake on your AppleWatch
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Ejectify▲88Hi HN, I built a small macOS utility to solve something that kept bothering me: external drives not being safely ejected when a Mac goes to sleep, leading to “Disk Not Ejected Properly” warnings and potential data issues. macOS doesn’t always give volumes enough time to unmount, especially with SSDs, SD cards, or disk images. Manually ejecting works, but it’s easy to forget. Ejectify automates this by unmounting selected volumes right before sleep (or display off) and mounting them again on wake. In Ejectify 2, I focused on making (un)mounting more reliable, with an optional helper for…
2020 · ejectify.app · its alternatives →
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A free macOS menu bar utility that keeps your Mac awake
Jun 2026 · misaellandero.com · its alternatives →
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A basic REST service for JSON data - enough for prototyping and MVPs! - rehacktive/caffeine
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Capsomnia▲158Caps Lock keeps your Mac awake, even with the lid closed
Jul 2026 · capsomnia.com · its alternatives →
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