Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Holdor – Stop your Agents from sleeping
Your Mac stays awake. Sleep is for humans, not agents.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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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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Keepresso▲129Keep your Mac awake, on your terms. Free and open source
Jul 2026 · keepresso.com · its alternatives →
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Awakado▲79Keep your Mac awake while your AI agents work
19d ago · awakado.noodledragon.studio · 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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Hold My Lid▲14Keep your Agents running while your macbook is closed
Jun 2026 · holdmylid.app · its alternatives →
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Keep your Mac awake for you and your AI coding agents
Jun 2026 · speranda.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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While building my startup i kept running into the issue where ai agents in cursor create endpoints or code that shouldn't exist, hallucinates strings, or just don't understand the code. ask-human-mcp pauses your agent whenever it’s stuck, logs a question into ask_human.md in your root directory with answer: PENDING, and then resumes as soon as you fill in the correct answer. the pain: your agent screams out an endpoint that never existed it makes confident assumptions and you spend hours debugging false leads the fix: ask-human-mcp gives your agent an escape hatch. when it’s unsure, it calls…
2025 · masonyarbrough.com · its alternatives →
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AgentManager▲125Never miss a Claude Code session waiting for your input
Jul 2026 · agentmgr.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Francesco from Cua here. I hacked this project together last weekend, inspired by the Codex Computer-Use release and lessons learned from deploying GUI-operating agents for our customers. The main problem: when a UI automation process controls a desktop app today, it usually takes over the human’s session. Your cursor moves, keyboard focus gets stolen, windows jump to the front, and you have to stop working until the agent is done. That is why we have historically avoided encouraging users to run these processes directly on their host machine, instead relying on VMs or GUI containers…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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NoSleep▲2[Free] Keep mac awake when agents work
Aug 2026 · site-ten-blond-47.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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LockIn MCP▲116I was tired of how bad distraction blockers are so I built my own. LockIn lets AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) block websites by editing the system hosts file directly via MCP tools (via a secure cloudflare bridge). Why? Because chrome extensions don't work. Blocking it natively makes it unbypassable, and having your agent gatekeep your focus is the ultimate cheat code. Since everyone is using AI agents nowadays, but most people start scrolling or Reddit while waiting for Claude Code to finish, giving them control over your focus solves that. The MCP server exposes four tools:…
Jun 2026 · lockinmcp.com · its alternatives →
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HOLD X▲125Productivity superpowers: planner, blocker, and motivator.
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Doppio▲4Hey I am Ben :wave: I've mostly moved to a remote agent solution but I do still run agents on my device sometimes. Wake up apps generally work great but I wanted to make my own and have it work when the lid is closed. It's $4 AUD and its yours to own. No catches. No DRM. Just an app that works and I will endeavour to keep up to date. I appreciate you taking a look and I hope its useful to you.
Jun 2026 · transitivedev.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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AgentQuartz▲94Claude & Cursor usage in your macOS menu bar
Jul 2026 · agentquartz.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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