Lungo

Keeps your Mac awake

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Keeps your Mac awake

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Lungo is a macOS app that prevents your Mac from falling asleep and your screen from dimming. This can be useful when, for example, doing a presentation at work or having a recipe open on your Mac while cooking.

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Lungo prevents your Mac from falling asleep and your screen from dimming. This can be useful when, for example, doing a presentation at work or having a recipe open on your Mac while cooking. It's a modern alternative to Caffeine, which hasn't been updated in years and lacks retina icon and dark mode support. Lungo is my third macOS app this year. Previous ones are Battery Indicator and Touch Bar Simulator. I started learning macOS app development and Swift at the beginning of the year. My goal is to do six macOS apps in 2017, to learn to ship and get better at Swift. You can read more about Lungo in my announcement blog post. (The FAQ section there answers most questions you might have) How is this different from Amphetamine? Amphetamine has lots features. Most of which I would never use. It ships with a myriad of menu bar icons to choose from, but none that I think look good. With Lungo I wanted a focused and simple app with great defaults, in the same spirit as the original Caffeine app.

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9yr ago

@sindresorhus I have been using it and have uninstalled all other messy applications I used for this purpose. In my use-case, I just put Lungo up in indefinite mode and use ⌃ + ⇧ + POWER button to sleep the display! Awesome app.

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9yr ago

Osaurus

@sindresorhus I've been using Amphetamine for a long time (previously a Caffeine user) and definitely found all the features overwhelming. I just want my Mac to not go to sleep, or to sleep the display. That's it. I could never understand all the extra features in Amphetamine. Looking forward to trying this out.

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9yr ago

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An update is out with: - Added a beautiful activation animation. - Added ability to right-click to activate. - Added an option to left-click to activate. (You then right-click to show the menu) - Added an option to activate at launch.

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9yr ago

Notify

@sindresorhus It's really smart to mention your other products here :) :)

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9yr ago

Daft Punk Cafe

I've been using Lungo since its early beta and I'm enjoying it so far. Nice touches like option clicking the menubar icon to activate/deactivate it and built-in timeouts (10 minutes, 1 hour, forever, etc) make this app a pleasure to use. I know Sindre is also working on some kick-ass animation for the menubar icon and it's stunning. I'd download Lungo just for that at least :) It's nothing like I've seen before.

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9yr ago

DiffSense

@vdemedes Now I really want to see that animation. @sindresorhus is good with micro-anims. ✌️

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9yr ago

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@vdemedes @eonpilot Alright, here's the work-in-progress: https://youtu.be/Q3mXORPDguE I'm using CAEmitterLayer and CABasicAnimation to achieve the effect.

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9yr ago

@vdemedes @eonpilot @sindresorhus Wow, that's epic 😍

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9yr ago

@vdemedes @eonpilot @sindresorhus That is so dope.

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9yr ago

Valentine Roulette

Thanks for building such a useful and modern tool. One thing I miss about it from my days of using Caffeine is the ability to turn it on/off with one click. What do you think about making the menu pop up only on right click?

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9yr ago

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@yefim I already have that built. Will be out soon.

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9yr ago

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@yefim It's out now.

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9yr ago

Notif.me SDK

Hello, It's same than caffeine command line but with UI or there is a difference ? I think this is a good feature but a developer feature so they probably already use the command line

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9yr ago

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@jnoleau It's using the same low-level system APIs as the `caffeinate` command-line tool. This app is not just for developers though. My mom uses it to keep the screen from dimming while cooking, to see the recipe. I'm a developer and I use the terminal a lot, but I still prefer a menu bar app for this.

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9yr ago

Restream

I've been using amphetamine app for a year now. What are the benefits of your app over the one I use? Just curious🤔

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9yr ago

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Maker

@victor_bous It's answered in my top comment.

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9yr ago

I’m unable to see the animation or icon at all, for that matter, when running with the dark menu bar. It becomes a solid white block.

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9yr ago

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Maker

@bootstrapper There were some problems with it on High Sierra. Try out the latest version, it has a bunch of fixes.

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9yr ago

@sindresorhus Now it works great. Beautifully simple app. Thanks so much!

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9yr ago

Awesome! The pixels from Caffeine were bugging me ;-). And just now saw that I had the settings in Caffeine to be active for only 2 hours 😱. So love the new app and clarity!

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9yr ago

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