What it does
Good for downloads, renders, presentations, long builds, or reading without the screen going dark.
As long as you like
Click the cup and your computer stays awake until you click it again.
For a while
Anywhere from 15 minutes to 8 hours. The menu shows how long is left.
Until a set time
Pick 17:00 and walk away. At 17:00 your computer goes back to its usual sleep settings.
While an app is open
Stays awake while OBS, a game or a build is running, and stops when you close it.
Easy on your battery
When the battery drops below a level you pick, Cafe turns itself off so your laptop doesn't run flat overnight.
Tells you when it stops
You get a notification when a timer ends or a low battery turns Cafe off.
A coffee fact a day
Like where coffee comes from, what a cortado is, or why it's called mocha.
Reading the cup
One look at the tray tells you what Cafe is doing.
It leaves your settings alone
Cafe doesn't change your power settings. It just asks the OS to stay awake for now, using SetThreadExecutionState on Windows and an IOKit power assertion on macOS.
If you turn it off, quit it, or it crashes, the request goes away with it and your computer goes back to how it was. There's nothing to undo.
You can see it for yourself with powercfg /requests or pmset -g assertions. It shows up as Cafe.
Install
| Windows installer | Cafe-Setup.exe |
| Scoop | scoop bucket add kidchenko https://github.com/kidchenko/scoop-bucketscoop install kidchenko/cafe |
| winget, Chocolatey | Coming soon |
| macOS | Cafe.dmg (Apple silicon and Intel) |
| Homebrew | brew install --cask kidchenko/tap/cafe |
Windows 10 or later, or macOS 11 or later. It's under 1 MB and needs nothing else installed.
