The Best 18 NoSleep 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

  • 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

  • InsomniaX

    It always has been a missing feature: disabling the sleep mode on a Apple Laptop. Who does not want to use it as a big juke-box or go warwalking. The best looking server...

    Free Mac OS X

  • 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

  • SleepLess

    This application is used to prevent the computer from going to sleep without changing system settings can disable sleep with lid closed Safe Sleep (Hibernate) with...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Lungo

    Lungo prevents your Mac from falling asleep and your screen from dimming. This can be useful when: - Doing a presentation at work - Watching YouTube videos in...

    Commercial

  • 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

  • noblackout

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

    Free Open Source Windows

  • InsomniaT

    This is a kernel extension and clients that allow the MacBook to disable sleeping when the lid is closed. MOUNTAIN LION IS NOT SUPPORTED

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • Deep Sleep

    Deep Sleep is a simple Dashboard widget which allows users to put their computer into hibernation mode, also sometimes called software suspend mode. This widget only...

    Free Mac OS X

  • SmartSleep

    SmartSleep lets you select each sleep state. Additionally the new SmartSleep state lets your notebook just sleep while the battery has a high level. If the battery level...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • 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