What's new
CaffeinateCat's menu bar interface has been rebuilt. The old menu with its two rows and
nested duration submenus is gone. Clicking the coffee cup now drops down a proper panel.
A real panel instead of a menu
- A switch for each mode, with a one-line description of what it does. Flipping one
on turns the other off, same as before. - Durations are right there — Indefinite, 15m, 30m, 1h, or Custom — instead of hidden
behind a submenu arrow. - Custom durations now use hours and minutes fields with stepper arrows. Typing or
clicking an arrow updates the running timer straight away. The old "how many minutes?"
dialog is gone. - A live countdown in the panel and next to the menu bar icon, so you can see how
long is left without opening anything.
Renamed modes
| Before | Now |
|---|---|
| Caffeinate | Keep Screen Awake |
| Keep Awake When Lid Closed | Keep Awake on Lid Close |
Timer changes
- The 2h preset was dropped. Set 2h 0m under Custom to get it back — and that's
now the default the custom fields start at. - Emptying a custom timer to
0h 0mswitches the mode off and restores the 2h default.
Unchanged
Everything that actually keeps your Mac awake works exactly as it did: the same idle
assertions, the same tightly-scoped pmset permission rule, and the same guarantee that
normal sleep is restored when you switch off or quit. If you already granted the
lid-close permission, you won't be asked again.
Requirements
macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · administrator access once, for
lid-close mode only.
Unsigned build — right-click → Open the first time to get past Gatekeeper.