The Best 17 Caffeine for Linux Alternatives

  • Caffeine for Mac

    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.

    Free Mac OS X

  • Caffeine for Windows

    If you have problems with your PC locking or going to sleep, caffeine will keep it awake.

    Free Windows

  • Caffeinated

    Caffeinated is a simple utility to prevent your PC from going to sleep. It places an icon near the clock. Click the icon to keep your PC awake. Click it again allow automatic sleep. Caffeinated is heavily inspired by Caffeine for OS X.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • dont sleep

    Don't Sleep is a small portable program to prevent system shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off and Restart.

    Free Windows

  • Should I Sleep

    Annoyed by the display getting dim when you're reading or watching something? What if the computer could “see and hear” you? By using a combination of heuristic...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • KeepingYouAwake

    A Caffeine clone for macOS Yosemite, El Capitan and Sierra (including Dark Mode).

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • PleaseSleep

    PleaseSleep is a utility software designed for Mac OS X that helps put your computer to sleep when you know some other app is preventing your Mac from going to sleep. ...

    Free Mac OS X

  • NoDoze

    NoDoze simulates keyboard/mouse activity to keep the screensaver from activating. Its activity depends on currently running programs. You can use regular expressions or...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Keep Screen On

    Annoyed by your screen turning off when you're using certain apps? Don't change your display settings and waste battery by keeping the screen on when the home...

    Free Android

  • No Sleep

    no Sleep prevents your device going in deep sleep mode. It is installed as widget only. So you have to add the 'no Sleep'-widget to a launcherscreen. After...

    Free Android

  • noblackout

    Disables screensaver and powersaving while running programms from a choosen directory.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Coffee_FF

    Coffee will keep your computer wide awake while your network is active or a program. Coffee prevents standby when your traffic speed on a selected network adapter is...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Sleep No More

    A tiny menu bar application, that prevents your Mac from sleeping for a set amount of time.

    Free Mac OS X

  • SleepTime

    SleepTime is a light-weight app that lives on your menu bar, letting you easily set a timer to put your Mac on sleep automatically after a specified time period you...

    Commercial