Keepresso

Keepresso

Keep your Mac awake, on your terms, with smart triggers, presets, timed sessions, and closed-display mode in a clean, native menu-bar app, built on a modern foundation for the next decade of computing.

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Keepresso is a native Swift + SwiftUI menu-bar app. It uses macOS power assertions (IOPMAssertion) to prevent system and display sleep, and layers on condition-based triggers so your Mac only stays awake when it actually should. It lives quietly in the menu bar, no Dock icon, no clutter.

Features

• Keep awake, your way. Prevent system sleep and/or display sleep as

independent toggles, indefinitely, for a timed session (presets or any custom duration), or until a wall-clock time ("until 18:00", today or tomorrow).

• Yield the screen saver. Let the screen saver or display sleep kick in

after _N_ minutes idle while the system itself stays awake.

• Dim, don't sleep. On a long held session, let the built-in display drop

to its dimmest a few minutes after you step away, staying awake but dark, then snap back to your brightness the moment you return or the session ends. Kinder to the panel and the battery on overnight sessions than a screen left fully lit.

• Keep me active. Keeping the Mac awake does not by itself keep you

present. Meeting and chat apps, remote desktop, VDI, cloud gaming, and many other tools still treat a quiet keyboard as idle: they mark you away, disconnect, or time out. Optionally stay active too, and pick how: a prompt-free power/cursor warp, or F15 every 60 seconds, Shift, a specified key, or a posted mouse move when the software only notices a real key or mouse. Those methods request Accessibility only when you pick them. It only steps in once you've been idle a few seconds, so it never types or nudges while you're using the Mac. Off by default.

• Trigger engine. Stay awake only while charging or on battery, an external

display is connected, you're on a chosen Wi-Fi network, a VPN is connected, the camera or microphone is in use, audio is playing, a chosen Bluetooth device is connected (headphones, a controller), a calendar event is in progress, a specific app or process is running, a chosen volume is mounted, CPU usage sits above a threshold (builds, renders, training runs), network throughput stays above a threshold (a large download, upload, or sync), a download is in progress in a folder you