brushpenbob/protoart-wake

ProtoArt Wake

Keeps your Mac awake from the menu bar, in a tube-amp panel. A free, open-source native macOS app (Swift + AppKit), about 1 MB, with no processor use in standby.

Download

ProtoArt-Wake-2.0.4.dmg (1.1 MB) · macOS 12 or newer, Apple Silicon and Intel.

SHA-256: ba212070e9ea2c13b6980c88122572ca2ca82fcd7eb4136f445c18bd968c18a8

It isn't notarised yet: the first time, open it from System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

Features

• Power button and duration knob: ∞, 5 min – 12 h, with a countdown ring, a custom length, until a clock time, while an app runs, or while a file downloads.
• Display + Mac or Mac only; block the screen saver.
• Triggers: watched apps, audio, downloads, a schedule, the power adapter, an external display, a drive, a busy processor.
• Session rules, reminders with Extend buttons, sounds, menu-bar options, Drive Alive, statistics, ⌃⌥⌘W hotkey and protoart-wake:// links.
• Uses macOS's own power assertions and confirms the hold with macOS; no network connections.

Source code, build instructions and release notes: github.com/theprotoart/protoart-wake. License: Apache-2.0.