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Keep Mac Awake for your Mac.Get it on your Mac.

Keep Mac Awake keeps a MacBook working with the lid closed. It installs on a Mac, not on this device. On your Mac, open keepmacawake.com/get, or send this page there.

  • Keeps your MacBook working with the lid closed while your agents and long jobs run.
  • Free for 3 days, no account and no card.
  • Signed and notarized by Apple.

Download for Mac

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Any Mac with Apple silicon, macOS 26 or later.

Next, on your Mac

  1. Open the package from your Downloads folder.
  2. Enter your Mac password once when the installer asks.
  3. Find the crescent moon icon in the menu bar (a moon with a line in it, not the Focus moon) and click it to open the panel and start a session.

Where is the app?

In the menu bar: Keep Mac Awake has no window and no Dock icon. Click its crescent moon icon at the top right of the screen (a moon with a line in it, not the Focus moon) to see its panel. If you cannot find the icon, open Keep Mac Awake from Applications or with Spotlight, then open it once more: the panel opens. Installing turns nothing on: your Mac sleeps as usual until you start a session.

Why does the installer ask for my password?

The sleep setting applies to the whole Mac, so a small system service changes it. Nothing else needs special permission.

Or in Terminal

curl -fsSL https://keepmacawake.com/install.sh | sh

What Keep Mac Awake does, and its questions and answers: keepmacawake.com. Help: hi@keepmacawake.com