Best for People who want the smallest possible open-source keep-awake toggle.
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Stat Space vs KeepingYouAwake
Stat Space vs KeepingYouAwake
KeepingYouAwake is a tiny, free, open-source menu bar toggle around macOS’s caffeinate. Stat Space has keep-awake built into a system monitor, with timers tied to downloads and terminal tasks, and a list of the other apps already keeping your Mac awake.
Best for Developers who want system stats plus ports, agents and keep-awake in one light menu bar app.
Stat Space KeepingYouAwake
Keep awake for a time, or indefinitely
Keep the display on, or just the system
Turn off on low battery —
Until a download or terminal task ends —
Rules: while an app or port runs, on AC, on a schedule Pro —
Apps currently blocking sleep —
Open source —
System monitor in the same app —
Price Free · Pro once Free
Intel Macs —
Where KeepingYouAwake shines
- Free, MIT-licensed, and does one thing with no setup.
- Preset durations, and it can switch itself off when the battery is low.
- Maintained for over ten years, and installs with
brew install --cask keepingyouawake.
What Stat Space adds
- Condition timers: until downloads finish, while plugged in, until a terminal task exits.
- The reason it’s awake, like “because vite is serving :5173”.
- A list of whatever else is holding your Mac awake, from
pmsetassertions. - A full system monitor, ports and agents in the same menu bar item.
Use both?
If all you want is a one-click toggle, KeepingYouAwake is hard to beat. If you already run Stat Space, its Awake tab saves a menu bar slot and tells you when your Mac is being kept awake by something else.
As of November 2026. Spotted something out of date? Email [email protected] and we’ll fix it.
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Know what your Mac is doing, without adding to it.
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