Not for a guessed number of minutes. Until Final Cut finishes the render, until the folder stops changing, until the battery hits 80% — then it sleeps, notifies, locks, or shuts down.
Keep my Mac awake
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Click either one to see the other combinations. That's the entire mental model — no scripts, no caffeinate, no Terminal.
Most utilities hand you a panel of switches and let you work out what they add up to. AwakeFlow shows you the sentence you're writing, and hides everything the sentence doesn't need behind one Advanced disclosure.
The condition picker only exists while you're using it, so the window stays calm. Add a second condition and the sentence becomes a numbered sequence you can reorder in place.
Do nothing, notify you, sleep, lock, or shut down. Shut down asks for confirmation first, and a delayed action always gives you thirty seconds to change your mind.
pmset, no private APIs
A render, a backup, a 40 GB download, a battery topping up before a flight. Each condition watches the real thing rather than a clock you had to guess at.
Common four up top, the rarer seven under More, and a search field when you know the name. Close it and the window is calm again — no permanent wall of options.
The icon carries the state. Open it for a live clock, the flow you're running, one-tap timers with ⌘1–⌘4, and everything you've saved.
A running flow shows a live session clock, how far along the current step is, and whatever the watcher is actually seeing — the command log, the battery reading, the file it's waiting on. When nothing is running, the mark drifts off to sleep.
Everything that isn't the sentence lives behind Advanced — display and disk behaviour, a name, and if you chose Notify, twelve sounds you can audition before you commit.
No accounts, no telemetry, no analytics SDK, no server to go down. Settings live in your own user folder.
IOKit power assertions to stay awake, IOKit to sleep. No private frameworks, no shell hacks behind your back.
Security-scoped bookmarks for folders you pick, so access survives a relaunch without a blanket grant.
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caffeinate keeps the Mac awake for a duration you have to guess, and does nothing when it's over. AwakeFlow waits for the actual event — the app quitting, the file landing, the battery reaching 80% — and then performs a finish action. No Terminal window left open, and you can see what it's waiting on.
No. Keeping the Mac awake uses public IOKit power assertions. Folder watching uses the folder you explicitly pick, stored as a security-scoped bookmark. No Accessibility or Full Disk Access is required.
The Mac App Store build can Do nothing, Notify, or Sleep when a flow finishes. Lock and Shut Down are not included in the sandboxed App Store edition.
No. It's a free non-consumable purchase that starts a seven-day window. Nothing renews and nothing is charged when it ends — the app just asks whether you'd like the one-time unlock.
You keep everything, permanently. The app checks your original purchase version through StoreKit and never asks you to buy anything again.
No, and nothing can — closing the lid on Apple silicon sleeps the machine regardless of power assertions. Keep the lid open, or use an external display setup that keeps it awake.