Hamod Abd Elhai
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Mac app

2Awake

Close the lid. Keep working. Sleep only when you mean it.

2Awake is a Mac menu bar app that helps you code. It keeps your MacBook awake with the lid closed, so AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI, builds and downloads keep running, and While Working mode lets your Mac sleep a few idle minutes after they finish. When you want it to sleep, it sleeps: Touch ID, the power button and Apple menu › Sleep work as usual.

  • Coming soon to the Mac App Store
  • Waiting for Apple’s review

Coming soon to the Mac App Store — waiting for Apple’s review. 2Awake isn’t available to download yet.

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Drawn from the app’s settings with sample values: the Keep Awake modes, the menu bar readouts close up, and Sleep & Safety.
Platform
Mac, macOS 14 or laterA menu bar app in Apple’s App Sandbox
Price
Free download, 14-day free trialThen a one-time $9.90 purchase. No subscription
Privacy
Collects no dataNo accounts, analytics or ads, and no network connections
Status
Version 1.0, coming soonWaiting for Apple’s review. Not on the Mac App Store yet

Features

Awake with the lid closed. Asleep when you ask.

Close the lid, keep working

  • Stays awake, lid closed

    Close the lid and your Mac stays awake, on battery or plugged in, with or without an external display.

  • You choose when

    Always, While Apps Are Open (you pick the apps), or While Working, which watches AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI, downloads and builds, then lets your Mac sleep after a few idle minutes.

Sleep when you mean it

  • Touch ID still sleeps it

    Touch ID, the power button and Apple menu › Sleep still put your Mac to sleep, as usual. Locking the screen with Control-Command-Q can put it to sleep too.

  • Locked or straight back in

    Lock the screen when the lid closes, or stay unlocked so opening the lid takes you straight back.

Safe by design

  • Battery guard

    Your Mac goes to sleep when the battery runs low with the lid closed.

  • Heat guard

    Your Mac goes to sleep if macOS reports it running hot with the lid closed, say in a bag.

  • Normal sleep comes back

    Lid-close sleep returns as soon as you turn 2Awake off or quit it.

  • Sandboxed

    No admin password and no helper tools. 2Awake runs fully inside Apple’s App Sandbox.

Your menu bar

  • A cup or a moon

    A steaming cup while 2Awake keeps your Mac awake, a sleeping moon when it doesn’t.

  • Live readouts

    Optional CPU, GPU, memory and heat readouts that turn yellow, orange, then red as they rise.

Inside the app

Settings, one screen each.

2Awake Settings, Keep Awake: switches for 2Awake and Keep awake with the lid closed, and a choice of when: Always, While Apps Are Open, or While Working, which is selected.
Keep Awake: choose when closing the lid keeps your Mac awake.
2Awake Settings, Sleep and Safety: Lock when the lid closes, Sleep on lock, Low-battery sleep at 15 percent, Bag heat guard and Battery warning.
Sleep & Safety: screen lock, sleep on lock, and the battery and heat guards.
2Awake Settings, Menu Bar: a preview of the menu bar with CPU, GPU, RAM and heat readouts, above switches for Show in menu bar, CPU usage, GPU usage, Memory usage and Heat level.
Menu Bar: live CPU, GPU, memory and heat readouts.

From the App Store screenshots of version 1.0, drawn from the app’s own screens.

Privacy

Nothing leaves your Mac.

2Awake works entirely on your Mac. It collects no data and makes no network connections.

It has no accounts, analytics, ads, tracking or third-party code. Your settings and its event log stay inside the app’s sandbox container, and purchases are handled by Apple.

Read the 2Awake privacy policy

Availability

Where it stands.

  • 1.0 · Mac Coming soon to the Mac App Store. It’s waiting for Apple’s review, so there’s no download yet. Coming soon
  • Price Free to download with a 14-day free trial, then a one-time in-app purchase keeps it working. No subscription, and nothing is charged automatically. At release
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