Valpas: Keep Machine Awake
Screen or system, timed or not
Only for Mac
Free
Mac
Keep your Mac awake for exactly as long as you meant to: one switch, a countdown, and rules that start and stop it on the adapter, a running app or a named process.
Your machine falls asleep in the middle of a render, a long upload, a download, a build, a backup or a presentation — and you have to notice it, undo it, and start again. Valpas is the switch that prevents it.
Click the icon in the menu bar, pick 15 minutes, an hour, four hours or forever, and your machine stays awake. The time remaining is right there in the panel, and next to the icon if you want it, so you never have to wonder whether it is still on. Add fifteen minutes whenever the job runs longer than you thought.
When the countdown ends, nothing is taken away and nothing snaps off. Valpas simply hands your machine back to its own sleep settings — that is the whole idea. It does not override your machine; it postpones it.
TWO MODES
Keep the display on, with the screen saver held back, when you are watching something happen. Or let the screen sleep while the machine itself keeps working — for the render that does not need to be watched.
UNTIL SIX, NOT FOUR HOURS
Hold the Option key over the durations and they become the next whole hours: pick one and the session runs until then. The line beside "+ 15 minutes" always says when the session ends — the answer you actually want after pressing that button three times.
IT STARTS BY ITSELF
While the machine is on the power adapter. While an external display is attached. While the microphone is in use — the meeting is in Zoom today and in the browser tomorrow, and Valpas needs no microphone permission to notice. While an app you choose is running — the render, the call, the upload. Switch Valpas off by hand and it stays off until that condition goes away and comes back: your hand always wins.
IT STOPS BY ITSELF
A battery guard ends the session when the charge runs low, so an app meant to keep your machine awake never empties it. Turning Valpas back on by hand afterwards still works.
QUIET BY DESIGN
No Dock icon, no window, no notifications, no account. An optional global shortcut flips the switch from any app — through the system's own hot key API, so it needs no Accessibility permission. Launch at login, and it never asks for anything again.
NOTHING COLLECTED, NOTHING SENT
Valpas has no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting, and it is sandboxed without network access of any kind — so there is nothing to send even by accident. It asks for no permissions: not the camera, not the microphone, not your files. The only thing it stores is your own settings, on your own machine.
Written in Swift with SwiftUI. 1.9 MB, universal for Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 13 or later.
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A new trigger keeps the Mac awake while a named process runs: type claude, codex or ollama and the Mac stays up while the agent works, then sleeps when it exits. The settings window is a little taller to fit it.
The developer, KirsuLab LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- KirsuLab LLC
- Size
- 505.7 KB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 KirsuLab LLC