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Sleepless for Mac

Menu bar utility that keeps your MacBook awake with the lid closed on battery, with a battery-floor auto-off.

By Aboudjem. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Sleepless at a glance

Version
1.2.7
Released
3 June 2026
Download size
1.2 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Menu Bar and Notch
Developer
Aboudjem
GitHub stars
84

About Sleepless

Keep your MacBook awake with the lid closed, on battery, with no external display. A native menu-bar app that uses pmset disablesleep, with an auto-off timer and a battery-floor cutoff so it can't drain your Mac. The open-source, MIT alternative to Amphetamine.

Screenshots

Sleepless screenshot 1Sleepless screenshot 2

How to install Sleepless on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Sleepless and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.2.7 from Aboudjem's own GitHub release.
  3. 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 Sleepless 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: Sleepless-1.2.7.zip (1.2 MB).

What is new in Sleepless 1.2.7

### Changed
- Redesigned the menu-bar icon so the three states are unmistakable at a glance. It
 stays a monochrome template icon (adapts to light/dark menu bars and inverts on
 highlight, the macOS convention), but now changes shape instead of just filling in:
 an empty cup resting on its saucer when off, a hot **steaming** cup when keeping the
 Mac awake, and the steaming cup with a small dot when awake on battery (the auto-off
 safety net is live). The previous empty-vs-filled cups looked nearly identical at
 menu-bar size, so the state change was easy to miss.

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### Verify this download
```sh
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS
gh attestation verify Sleepless-1.2.7.zip -R Aboudjem/Sleepless
```
See [docs/AUDIT.md](https://github.com/Aboudjem/Sleepless/blob/main/docs/AUDIT.md) for what each check proves.

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