Caffeine
Caffeine is a lightweight menu-bar utility for macOS that prevents your Mac from automatically sleeping, dimming the screen, or starting screen savers while you are working or presenting. It sits unobtrusively in the menu bar and can be toggled on or off with a single click. Power users, presenters, and anyone who needs to keep their machine awake without diving into System Settings rely on Caffeine for its simplicity and minimal resource footprint. The app includes a timer function to automatically re-enable sleep after a set number of minutes.
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1 suggestionCaffeine has native Apple Silicon support. Multiple sources, including the developer's official release notes at IntelliScape Solutions, confirm full Apple Silicon compatibility. If you are running an older Intel-only version under Rosetta, update to the latest release from the developer's site or via MacUpdate to get the native build, which will run more efficiently and consume less battery on M-series Macs. The update is straightforward: download the latest installer and run it, or use any built-in auto-update mechanism if present.
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