Caffeinated ☕

A lightweight Windows system tray app that prevents your PC from sleeping. Inspired by the macOS app of the same name.

Features

• Runs silently in the system tray
• Prevent sleep indefinitely or for a set duration (30 min, 1 hour, 2 hours)
• Checkmark shows the currently active option
• Zero background resource usage (Only 20MB of RAM!)
• No installer needed
• Completely Open Source

Usage

1. Run Caffeinated.exe
2. Find the icon in your system tray (bottom right near the clock)
3. Right-click to choose a duration or quit

Building from source

1. Clone the repo
2. Open Caffeinated.slnx in Visual Studio 2022 or later
3. Hit F5 to run

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11
• .NET 8.0 or later

Roadmap

• Custom coffee cup icons that change per interval
• Infinity icon for indefinite mode
• Modern Windows 11 UI styling
• Run on startup option

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 — see the LICENSE file for details.