Amphetamine at Mac App Store analyse

Welcome to Amphetamine, the most awesome keep-awake app ever created for macOS. Amphetamine can keep your Mac, and optionally its display(s), awake through a super simple on/off switch, or automatically through easy-to-configure Triggers. Amphetamine is extremely powerful and includes advanced features for those who need them, yet remains intuitive and easy-to-use for those who dont need all of the bells and whistles.


=== Click to Keep Your Mac Awake ===

Quickly start a keep-awake session from Amphetamines menu to keep your Mac awake.

• Indefinitely, for a specified amount of time, or until a specified time
• While a file is downloading
• While a specific app is running

During a keep-awake session, choose to allow or prevent:

• Display sleep
• Screen saver activation
• System sleep when built-in display is closed
• Automated mouse cursor movement
• Locking of the screen

=== Advanced Automation ===

Create a Trigger to automatically keep your Mac awake.

• While an external display is connected
• While your Macs display is being mirrored
• While a USB or Bluetooth device is connected
• While a specific app is running
• While a specific app is running and is frontmost
• While your Macs battery is charging and/or when the battery is above a threshold
• While your Macs power adapter is connected or disconnected
• While your Mac has a specific IP address
• While your Mac is on a specific Wi-Fi network
• While your Mac is connected to Cisco AnyConnect VPN service
• While your Mac is using a specific DNS servers
• While headphones or another audio output is in use
• While a specific drive or volume is mounted
• While your Macs CPU is being utilized to a specific threshold
• When your Mac has been idle for a specific threshold


=== Whats the Catch? ===

No catch. Amphetamine is 100% free. Its a gift from me to you. Enjoy!

• No advertisements
• No in-app purchases
• Nothing to unlock/no "pro" version
• No annoying prompts asking you to review Amphetamine
• No links for other paid apps
• No tracking
• No data-harvesting


=== What Else Does Amphetamine Do? ===

Amphetamine is the most powerful and customizable keep-awake utility ever created for macOS. Some other notable features are:

• Lock your Macs screen after a period of inactivity
• Move the mouse cursor periodically
• Keep your MacBook awake while its display/lid is closed
• Keep your drive awake with Drive Alive
• AppleScript support
• Use your own menu bar icons
• Use your own notification sounds
• Allow your display to sleep while keeping your Mac awake
• Allow screen saver to run after a customizable period of inactivity
• Optional session time remaining display in the menu (with 12/24 hour support)
• Auto-end session if your Macs battery is low
• Hot key support for starting/ending sessions, enabling disabling display sleep, and more


=== System Requirements + Other Details ===

• Amphetamine requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or higher; some features require a higher version of macOS
• Amphetamine supports Retina displays and macOS dark mode.

Latest version Amphetamine: 5.3

=== Launch At Login for macOS 13+ ===
Apple changed the way apps request to launch at login in macOS 13. Amphetamine 5.3 adopts this new request process. If Amphetamine will not launch at login, please try:

1. Ensure you only have one copy of Amphetamine installed on your Mac and it is located in the /Applications folder
2. Disable the setting in Amphetamine Settings → General → Launch and Wake Behavior,
3. Open the macOS Login Items settings from Apple icon→ System Settings → General → Login Items, and remove Amphetamine from the Open at Login list
4. Re-enable the Launch at Login setting in Amphetamine Settings → General → Launch and Wake Behavior
5. Confirm you see Amphetamine reappear in the Apple icon → System Settings → General → Login Items list

=== Closed-Display Mode on Apple Silicon Macs ===
Apple changed the way Closed-Display Mode works on Apple Silicon Macs. In Amphetamine versions prior to 5.3, Closed-Display Mode on Apple Silicon Macs would fail if you connected/disconnected your Mac from an external power source (charger, display with power delivery, etc.). In Amphetamine 5.3, this issue has been fixed, however, Closed-Display Mode sessions now require 1) installation of a script that Amphetamine will run whenever a Closed-Display Mode session starts/ends, and 2) admin user authentication (Touch ID, Apple Watch, etc.). If you do not want to authenticate each Closed-Display Mode session, choose Skip when prompted to install the script. Closed-Display Mode will still work without the script, but you will experience a Closed-Display Mode session failure if you connect/disconnect your Mac to/from an external power source.

On Apple Silicon Macs, Amphetamine 5.3 will force the built-in display on MacBooks to sleep when folded closed. This is done to prevent display burn-in. Depending on your Macs security settings, upon waking (opening/unfolding) your Macs display you may be required to authenticate back in to your user account. Your Mac will stay awake when the built-in display is folded and asleep.

=== Enhanced Process Monitoring on Apple Silicon Macs ===
Previously only available via the companion app, Amphetamine Enhancer, Enhanced Process Monitoring (now called Process Discovery) is included in Amphetamine itself. To enable Process Discovery, go to Amphetamines menu and choose While App Is Running from the Start New Session menu. Then, click the ( ? ) button, and then the Install the Process Discovery Script button. Once installed, Amphetamine will be able to "see" additional processes running on your Apple Silicon Mac, for use with app/process-based sessions and Triggers.

=== Battery-Related Functions on Apple Silicon Macs ===
Amphetamines way of detecting whether a Mac was a laptop/had a built-in battery stopped working with the M2 series MacBooks. This issue has been fixed.

=== Other ===
- Changed "Preferences" to "Settings" for macOS 13+
- Added French language (completed by Mathieu Martin)
- Changed shell used for tasks to ZSH for macOS 10.15+ (Catalina)
- Fixed an issue with some process/app-based Trigger sessions not starting
- Fixed an issue with some process/app-based Trigger sessions consuming lots of CPU
- Updated app icon
- Other minor improvements

Apps Changes History:

• 6 months ago: New App Version 5.2.2 ☛ 5.3

Realmente é O MELHOR!

• ★★★★★   BCalhau 7 years ago ( v 2.3.1 )

Quem tiver dúvidas é só usar e verá! Maravilhoso App. Meus parabéns aos desenvolvedores.

Wow

• ★★★★★   jnsknst 7 years ago ( v 2.3.1 )

Bis jetzt habe ich gedacht, Caffeine ist das A und O auf jedem Mac… weit gefehlt. Diese App ist wirklich genial! Erfüllt den selben Zweck, nur kann mehr und viel besser. FETTE EMPFEHLUNG!

Super tool

• ★★★★★   Tomas Lang 7 years ago ( v 2.3.1 )

Funktioniert sehr gut und läast sich auch noch anpassen!

Great Little Utility

• ★★★★★   Vulture06 7 years ago ( v 2.3.1 )

If you’re frustrated with having to change your power save setting each and every time when your mac needs to stay awake look no further. This utility not only does the job perfectly and easily but also it has a vast array of options that suits each and every task you can imagine. A must have. Deserves 5 stars.

Like the options; request a name change

• ★★★★★   n8inupland 7 years ago ( v 2.3.1 )

As has been noted in other reviews, this seems to be a terrific replacement for Caffeine (an app I have used for YEARS). As someone who has had narcotics addiction in the family, I grieve the name choice. Hope a better name might be considered.

Works as Advertised!

• ★★★★★   Dylqn 7 years ago ( v 2.3.1 )

All I can say is that it keeps my Mac awake and even my Hard Drives that I add to the preferences list. Great app!

Nice Idea, awful execution

• ★☆☆☆☆   allegedprogrammer 7 years ago ( v 2.3.1 )

This app is a pretty good idea and it looks a lot better than caffeine given the features, however it is incredibly buggy so you can barely take advantage of all of the features. When you click on the menu bar icon for amphetamine, the options dropdown menu pops down, but only for about half a second. It disappears immediately after no matter what I tried to do. This made it very dificult to change the settings, activate it, attempt to leave feedback at their website(that’s why I’m here instead of there, their feedback button didn’t even work), and eventually once I was finished trying to deal with it, quit the app so I could uninstall it. I have literally never had that happen with any other menu bar app, so I am very disappointed in these developers. This app has some nice vision and I could see using it once they make it usable, but at this point it really is unusably bad.

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