Caffeine

Works fine in 10.8

Works fine in 10.7

Caffeine

Supports iCloud

Secured by Gatekeeper

Supports retina graphics

Caffeine icon

Available on the Mac App Store
Not available on the Mac App Store

Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Right-click (or ⌘-click) the icon to show the menu.

Version 1.1.1
Developer Lighthead Software
Website http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/
Status Works fine

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OSX Mountain Lion (ML) has an idle sleep policy that requires apps to set sleep assertions if they want to prevent sleep after the period set in Energy Saver. Caffeine is currently not compatible with the new policy.

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[ Eddy]EddyAnonymous 29 Jul 2012 21:48

Works fine in Mountain Lion

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[ danco]dancoAnonymous 17 Aug 2012 17:39

It installs ok in ML, but in my experience (and that of others) it just does not do what it is intended to do, the Mac sleeps even with Caffeine on. This is because of the new sleep behaviour in ML. I hope the developers will be able to produce a working version using the new command 'caffeinate'. See the "help with caffeinate" thread in Apple's Mountain Lion discussions, snd other discussions.

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[ Elmyr]ElmyrAnonymous 16 Nov 2012 19:23

Retina icons here: http://macthemes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=16812443

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Lion (10.7) Comments

BrianBrianAnonymous 26 Feb 2011 19:27

Caffeine works properly

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[ Doc. Caliban]Doc. CalibanAnonymous 07 Apr 2011 17:29

When I have the latest version of Caffeine installed and active, my MBA goes to sleep when I close the lid. Is there something else that I have to do?

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[ David]DavidAnonymous 11 Jun 2011 15:46

Caffeine does put the mac to sleep when the lid is closed. This has been this way since the app has been created, and happened on SL as well.

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ThomasThomasAnonymous 11 Jul 2011 06:10

Doc. Caliban,

Caffeine only stops the Mac from going to sleep or dimming the screen automatically, like when you are watching a long Youtube video or something.

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[ T24G]T24GAnonymous 31 Jul 2011 16:36

Doc. Caliban -

If you are looking for an app to keep your MacBook awake when you shut it, try InsomniaX.

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