Keep Alive: keep your Mac awake on your terms
This 24-second video shows Keep Alive in FavTray, a Mac menu bar app for developers. Keep your Mac and your chat status awake, with office hours and app exclusions. Start it and you see when it will stop. You choose what it does, such as moving, clicking, scrolling or a keystroke; it pauses the moment you touch the keyboard, and you can set a battery threshold, office hours and apps to exclude.
Read more on the Keep Alive page, or see what’s free and what’s in Pro.
What you’ll see
On screen
The video has music and on-screen captions, no narration. The captions, in order:
- 0:00 Awake until you say so.
- 0:02 Start. See the end time.
- 0:06 Choose what it does.
- 0:10 Touch the keyboard. It pauses.
- 0:16 Battery. Schedule. Exclusions.
Questions about Keep Alive
- Does Keep Alive stop when I use the Mac?
- It pauses as soon as you touch the keyboard and resumes when you are idle again.
- How long can Keep Alive run on Free?
- Free includes 3 hours of running time a day. Pro has no limit.
