Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m the developer of LidPilot. I built it because I wanted one simple Mac utility that handled two workflows I kept running into: sometimes I need the screen to stay available for a lecture or long session, and other times I want a build, download or local task to keep running after I close the lid. The main feature is Follow Lid: Lid open → screen stays available. Lid closed → Mac keeps running. Open it again → LidPilot reconciles the state automatically. Underneath the simple UI, I spent a lot of time on the boring-but-important parts: helper authentication, crash recovery, battery and thermal safeguards, state verification, signed updates and making sure LidPilot returns the Mac to normal behavior when it stops. LidPilot is 100% free and open source. No account, subscription or analytics. You can install it from the website or with: brew install --cask Marios1111/tap/lidpilot I’d genuinely like feedback from people using it on different Apple Silicon Macs, especially around workflows I haven’t considered yet. Thanks for checking it out.

LidPilot — Your Mac. On your time.

Keep your Mac running, your way — free & open source

Keep your Mac running, your way — free & open source