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24 alternatives to NoSleepAgent – keep your MacBook awake until your agents finish
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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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NoSleep▲2[Free] Keep mac awake when agents work
Aug 2026 · site-ten-blond-47.vercel.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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Hold My Lid▲14Keep your Agents running while your macbook is closed
Jun 2026 · holdmylid.app · its alternatives →
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Awakado▲79Keep your Mac awake while your AI agents work
20d ago · awakado.noodledragon.studio · its alternatives →
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Updated Smackbook script for OS X Yosemite. Contribute to dabockster/Smackbook-Yosemite development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · 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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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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Hacker News client for macOS. Contribute to mattrighetti/HNReaderApp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Your Mac stays awake. Sleep is for humans, not agents.
Mar 2026 · holdor.yetanother.one · its alternatives →
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CueNotch▲20Look like you memorized everything. You didn't.
Mar 2026 · cuenotch.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to softcane/agents-workbook development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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NoSleep▲2Prevent your Macbook from sleeping when you close the lid
2015 · code.google.com · 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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deariary▲10I have never been able to keep a diary. Tried paper notebooks, journaling apps, daily templates. Always the same arc: a week of momentum, then nothing. The busiest days vanished first, because I was too busy living them to write anything down. At some point I noticed that I was already recording my life without trying. My calendar had every meeting. Slack had every conversation. GitHub had every commit. The raw material was there, just scattered across a dozen APIs. So I wrote a set of collectors and a cron job that pulls it all together every morning and has an LLM write a diary entry from…
Mar 2026 · deariary.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to ostrowr/send-me-a-secret development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to dankilman/j-cheat-sheet development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CodexUse▲10Plan in one Codex account, build in another, and review the changes. CodexUse keeps a window per account and gives workers isolated Git worktrees.
Nov 2025 · codexuse.com · its alternatives →
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Quickly make reminders in the terminal. Contribute to mkaminsky11/rmdr development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This project is no longer maintained. Contribute to snellingio/self-hosted-status-page development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to netb258/clj-pub development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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