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Life & fun · March 15, 2020

Amphetamine

Keep-awake app for macOS

Amphetamine launched on March 15, 2020 with 5 votes, #1,643 of 4,417 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

The most awesome keep-awake app ever created for macOS

Download Amphetamine by William Gustafson on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Amphetamine.

UPDATE 2: Glad to see that Apple is no longer threatening to pull Amphetamine from the App Store on the absurd ground that it somehow encourages substance abuse. (Given that this has been one of the most popular utilities on the App Store for years, I suspect some junior Apple employee or intern got stuck working over the holidays without adequate supervision.) The developer, who has created this stellar utility and provides regular updates as an ongoing free gift to the Mac-using community (and to Apple), didn't deserve to be treated like this.UPDATE: I still love Amphetamine! I do have a very minor feature request—would it be possible to add a 90 minutes or 1.5 hours preset to the…from apps.apple.com

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