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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

- 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
- 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

Fabulous overhaul

I use Amphetamine on my two Macs every day. It sits quietly in the menu bar doing its thing. I really appreciate the new streamlined feature of turning it on or off with one click. I can’t even remember what the original preferences were, because it’s been so long since I needed to tweek anything with it. However, the owl is adorable and so are the notification hoots. It’s nice to have choices. I’ve not tried any of the trigger features, but I can see they’d be helpful for users. Another nice feature is the tie-in with a battery. This will come in handy on my Macbook. I appreciate Apps that just work. Amphetamine adds convenience and is a must-have App for me.

Amphetamine
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  • Free
  • Category: Utilities
  • Updated:
  • Version: 3.0
  • Size: 3.4 MB
  • Language: English
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Compatibility: OS X 10.8 or later, 64-bit processor

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