LidOn for Mac
Keeps your laptop running with the lid closed — no external display, charger, or sudo needed.
By jayden0903. Free and open source, MIT licence.
LidOn at a glance
- Version
- 1.0.10
- Released
- 26 September 2026
- Download size
- 2.5 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- MIT
- Category
- Menu Bar and Notch
- Developer
- jayden0903
- GitHub stars
- 0
About LidOn
Close the lid. Keep working. Free macOS menu bar app that keeps your MacBook — and your AI coding agents — running with the lid closed.
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How to install LidOn on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for LidOn and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.0.10 from jayden0903's own GitHub release.
- Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.
Updates to LidOn show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.
Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: LidOn-1.0.10.zip (2.5 MB).
What is new in LidOn 1.0.10
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/jayden0903/LidOn/compare/v1.0.9...v1.0.10
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