Amphetamine
Welcome to Amphetamine, the most awesome keep-awake app ever created for macOS. Amphetamine can keep your Mac, and optionally its display(s), awake through a super simple on/off switch, or automatically through easy-to-configure Triggers. Amphetamine is extremely powerful and includes advanced features for those who need them, yet remains intuitive and easy-to-use for those who don’t need all of the bells and whistles.
Features
Click to Keep Your Mac Awake
Quickly start a keep-awake session from Amphetamine’s menu to keep your Mac awake.
- Indefinitely, for a specified amount of time, or until a specified time
- While a file is downloading
- While a specific app is running
During a keep-awake session, choose to allow or prevent:
- Display sleep
- Screen saver activation
- System sleep when built-in display is closed
- Automated mouse cursor movement
- Locking of the screen
Advanced Automation
Create a Trigger to automatically keep your Mac awake.
- While an external display is connected
- While your Mac’s display is being mirrored
- While a USB or Bluetooth device is connected
- While a specific app is running
- While a specific app is running and is frontmost
- While your Mac’s battery is charging and/or when the battery is above a threshold
- While your Mac’s power adapter is connected or disconnected
- While your Mac has a specific IP address
- While your Mac is on a specific Wi-Fi network
- While your Mac is connected to Cisco AnyConnect VPN service
- While your Mac is using a specific DNS servers
- While headphones or another audio output is in use
- While a specific drive or volume is mounted
- While your Mac’s CPU is being utilized to a specific threshold
- When your Mac has been idle for a specific threshold
What Else Does Amphetamine Do?
Amphetamine is the most powerful and customizable keep-awake utility ever created for macOS. Some other notable features are:
- Lock your Mac’s screen after a period of inactivity
- Move the mouse cursor periodically
- Keep your MacBook awake while its display/lid is closed
- Keep your drive awake with Drive Alive
- AppleScript support
- Use your own menu bar icons
- Use your own notification sounds
- Allow your display to sleep while keeping your Mac awake
- Allow screen saver to run after a customizable period of inactivity
- Optional session time remaining display in the menu (with 12/24 hour support)
- Auto-end session if your Mac’s battery is low
- Hot key support for starting/ending sessions, enabling disabling display sleep, and more
Installation
Download newest release from apps.apple.com
Examples
