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Chris Messina

Amphetamine - Powerful keep-awake utility for macOS

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Welcome to Amphetamine, the most awesome keep-awake utility ever created for macOS. Amphetamine can keep your Mac, and optionally its display, awake through a super simple on/off switch, or automatically through easy-to-configure Triggers.

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Christopher Scott
I guess I'm waiting for cocaine 2.0 but will give this a try for sure.
Flavio Spaini
@mckean I'd prefer Xanax 1.0 as not to wake up to a drained battery in the morning.
Matthew Gold
@fspaini you will definitely wake up with a drained battery after a night of using Xanax 1.0. You might want to try busparone 2.5.
Kix Panganiban
I read in the review picture that it's "Better than Caffeine." How so? Edit: Nevermind, decided to give it a go and I was immediately converted. Key features that make it better than Caffeine: - Triggers and sessions, ie, stay awake only when certain conditions are met (on a specific WiFi network, specific apps are running, etc.) - Better icons! - Can put display to sleep or to screensaver while keeping drives awake
Pietz Prove
@kixpanganiban Caffeine is buggy as sh*t. My heart goes to anybody who's still using it...
Kix Panganiban
@gopietz Never had any problems with it. Been using it since before Yosemite.
Nathan Palmer
@gopietz My experience was the opposite. I went back to Caffeine after amphetamine wouldn't trigger properly. It's been a while though so could be a time to try it again.
Jack Smith
@gopietz @kixpanganiban caffeine was buggy and stopped working for me. no issues with amphetamine
Jack Smith
I used Amphetamine before, but it stopped working at some point, so I switched to 'NoSleep', which has been pretty flawless.
Secretmapper
@_jacksmith Opposite experience for me, I switched to Amp cause NoSleep stopped working for me after 10.11. I guess we're just lucky with the abundance of app options we have :)
Jack Smith
@secretmapper yes, apologies. Actually I was wrong. It was caffeine that I had which wasn't working. I switched to this (amphetamine) and it's great
ΛRTΞM
@_jacksmith be careful with this kind of comments, as somebody googling your name might stumble upon this comment and think you're a drug user
Jack Smith
@defeed lol, yeah, I was thinking that
Chris Messina
Hunter
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
Ethan Thomas
Amphetamine should have an option to disable lid sleep on Macs. That way I can finally retire insomniaX :)
William Gustafson
Maker
@ethan021021 Unfortunately this isn't possible with an app from the Mac App Store. This requires a kernel extension which is prohibited by Apple's guidelines.
Ethan Thomas
@x74353 Remove it from the app store and open source it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ram Patra
I am using Caffeine currently which is simple and nice but this looks good too.
Abhishek Ghuwalewala
Love this app!
Julien Le Coupanec
Exactly what I needed!
Mehmet Perk
A must have built-in feature for every OS.
Askar
Triggers make it a great alternative to Caffeine.
Ghost Kitty
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William Gustafson
Maker
@govindrai Thanks! Put in a support ticket and we'll try to figure out what's going wrong https://instinctualflaw.uservoic...
Desmond Duggan
Great side-effect feature is changing the notif noise to coffee-pour ☕. It reminds me to look up every 20 minutes and take a drink (hopefully of water).
Steffi
Caffeine is surely getting decaffeinated by this.
Lara
Used caffeine for years, decided to give amphetamine a go and I can't believe it took me so long.