When you’re running on battery power, you want to make sure your Mac is using as little energy as possible. But there are plenty of times when you don’t want your system to go to sleep.

Check out these Mac Menu Bar Battery Apps:

Caffeine

Caffeine

Caffeine prevents your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back.

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SlimBatteryMonitor

slimbatterymonitor

SlimBatteryMonitor is a replacement power gauge for Apple’s Mac OS X that tracks both laptop batteries and many UPS batteries. It takes 70% less space than Mac OS X battery indicator.

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Theine

Theine

Theine keeps your Mac awake just like caffeine does with you. It prevents your Mac from falling asleep, dimming your screen or starting the screensaver.

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