Amphetamine
By William Gustafson
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Description
Amphetamine is a little app that lives in your menu bar. With Amphetamine, you can effortlessly override your energy saver settings and keep your Mac awake.
Features:
- Keep your Mac (and optionally its display and drives) awake
- Choose from numerous activation time presets, or enter your own
- Keep your Mac awake while specific apps are running
- Schedule activation/deactivation for specific times of the day
- Activate/deactivate with a single click in the menu bar
- Activate automatically at launch login
- Activate when connected to specific WiFi networks
- Keep drives (HDDs/SSDs) connected to your Mac awake
- Use global hotkeys for activation/deactivation
- Receive alerts while Amphetamine is running or when it activates/deactivates
- Auto-deactivate when your Mac's battery drops below a set threshold
- Auto-activate when you connect your Mac's power adapter
- Allow/prevent screen saver
- Use your own status icons
- Custom notification sounds
- AppleScript support
Amphetamine supports Retina displays and OS X's dark mode.
Amphetamine is 100% free (no ads, no in-app purchases).
After you launch Amphetamine, you must activate it by clicking on its menu icon. If you do not activate Amphetamine, your Mac will sleep normally, per your energy saver settings.
Please note that keeping your Mac laptop awake while the lid is closed is not possible for an app from the Mac App Store.
Amphetamine requires OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion or higher.
What's New in Version 3.0.1
3.0.1:
- Option to send a notification on manual start/stop of session in Preferences
- Resolves an issue where some Preferences would not save
- Improves status icon quality on non-Retina displays in systems prior to Yosemite
- Other small bug fixes and improvements
3.0:
- Set up an infinite number of Triggers, each with its own set of conditions
- Expanded schedule options for Triggers
- Trigger sessions and "single-use" sessions now operate independently
- New icons and sounds
- Hide/show icon in Dock option in Preferences
- Complete rewrite of application
- A bunch of little things you probably won't notice
Note: Amphetamine³ drops support for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.7 Lion (sorry!) and now requires 10.8 Mountain Lion or higher.
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Customer Reviews
Move over Caffeine...
Although “Caffeine” will always be my favorite “wakie” app, Amphetamine goes above and beyond! There are so many customizable features that it will be awhile before I try them all. The developer takes a lot of pride in his apps. Recently I had a issue with saving settings and not only did he fix it in this version, he sent me a beta to try out the fix. Awesome!
Thank you for the fix with preference!
The fix works, and now it is going smoothly! The preference saves finally! Thank you very much for the quick fix!
Good App
Good app.

- Free
- Category: Utilities
- Updated: Sep 12, 2016
- Version: 3.0.1
- Size: 3.4 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: William Gustafson
- © 2016 William C. Gustafson
Compatibility: OS X 10.8 or later, 64-bit processor
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