Insomniacs

Insomniacs

This menu bar app disables sleep forever or just for a selected time period. It also prevents sleeping/hibernation when your MacBook lid/screen is closed. Comes in handy when you’ve got time consuming operations to complete.

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Homie

Homie

Control your HomeKit devices straight from your menu bar. There is also support for global keyboard shortcuts to enable scenes and automation support to trigger certain scenes automatically, e.g. when the computer is locked or wakes up from sleep.

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Ejectify

Ejectify

Ejectify automatically unmounts external volumes when your Mac starts sleeping, and mounts them again after it wakes up.

Useful when you have connected a USB drive to a display that powers off when your Mac starts sleeping, causing the drive to be ejected.

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Wimoweh

wimoweh
With Wimoweh you have better control over how your Mac sleeps. The app comes in handy when you’re waiting for a lengthy job to finish and want your Mac to sleep afterwards.

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Jiggler

Jiggler

When you have some lengthy task for your computer to do, it’s annoying to have to turn off your screensaver and turn off the sleep timer, only to have to turn it all back on again when you’re done. Jiggler is a freeware menu bar app that keeps your Mac awake. It’s a little helper that bumps your mouse every once in a while to keep your machine alert.

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