Amphetamine App Reviews

One of the key things I noticed was “Better than caffeine.” I’ve been using caffeine for about a year and never had an issue. This program extends some functionality but takes away from the simplicity that I like about cafffeine (clicking on and off). It would be nice if you could set the “defaults” for time to stay awake and then simply click the icon like caffeine. That would make it, at least for me - better than caffeine. On another, more serious note. I just had to uninstall it after several days of debugging reasons but it was crashing my brand new 27inch 5k retina display running 4gb graphics card and 32gb ram. Maybe I had the settings incorrect and there was a clash? Not sure but it crashed everytime imac went to sleep and I even checked “allow mac to sleep.” Ran out of ideas and uninstalled.

Works very well and has many options for screen timeout.

This app has some awesome features that make it far superior to Caffeine, the only problem is that it crashes regularly. Half the time when I try and activate Amphetamine in the menu bar I’m greeted with the spinning wheel of death and it takes a complete computer restart to make it work again. I’m switching back to Caffeine for the time being, hopefully a fix will be released shortly.

Looks pretty sweet my friend, thanks for the free code!

I like the extra options that Amphetamine gives over Caffiene (power adapter connect, Wi-Fi network connect, low battery level, etc.) I don’t like the deafult icon as it’s not obvious that horizontal line is inactive and vertical line through the pill is active. I switched it to the coffee cup icon instead.

Great features on the app, and its definitely better than Caffeine. However, I get the rainbow spin wheel everytime I try to turn it on. I cant seem to get beyond it. Please fix it.

Great app, lots of options I can use, Thank You….

I use Amphetamine on my Macbook Pro daily. It’s great to be able to keep my screen up without having to move the mouse every few minutes in class so I can follow along with the professor as I skim my notes. It’s also great for reading or watching videos. Incredibly user-friendly and easy to turn on/off when I need it.

I trust this app in mission critical situations for large scale AV productions. It works flawlessly. Tried a number of different apps that do the same thing prior to using Amphetamine, but none had the intuitive design and balanced feature set. I see good design as usually being an indicator of attention to detail with engineering. It isnt always the case, but more often than that, one follows the other. Amphetamine delivers. Seriously, thank you.

Just switched from Caffeine to Amphetamine… Wow! Wish I made the switch earlier! This app offers so much more. Thanks!!

This is far better than the Caffeine application with more features than I could wish for.

Amphetamine is a great replacement for Caffeine, with even more features. I especially like the trigger to activate a session when connected to a WiFi network. I have one suggestion: Make a trigger for when connected to an external display. 5/5 Would download again for free any day!

Love the ability to use our own icon, that feature made me finaly switch from my beloved caffeine.

It’s great to have such a useful app both available at all and even better that the author is putting in a lot of time on improvements. The user interface has improved significantly over the previous version. With this app, one has a great deal of control over processor sleep. I used to use Caffeine to keep my Mac awake; it was good, but very limited in what one could control. Amphetamine has an abundance of features and a great user interface with which to control them. If you have a need for better control of processor sleep than OS X’s Energy Saver prefpane affords, have a look at Amphetamine.

I use this app when syncing hard drives and copying Itunes libraries to my NAS. It works great keeps my mac on so the job completes. All the options you need and does just what it is meant to very well. I highly recommend it.

Awesome app that is finally worthy of replacing Caffeine!

Amazing! So much better than caffeine. Love that certain things can trigger it to stay on (apps, battery / etc). Excellent work! Thanks to the dev. You rock!

Great app. The new customized icon is awesome. I put my personal logo there and it looks unbelievable. Thnkas buddy. Everything’s perfect!

I had some trouble getting the new App Triggers working with one specific app (that often needs to run for days on end). The developer got back to me within hours with a couple of helpful suggestions. THAT’S SERVICE!

I’ve tried just about all of them, with Caffeine being my favorite until they stopped updating it. I was sad when Yosemite came out and it began having issues, so I started looking at replacements and hadn’t found one I was truly happy with, until now! Even with El Capitan this works great, as it is regularly not just updated, but also has new features baked in. I really appreciate the granular control and LOVE that you can use custom icons. This is pretty much a perfect app, and I can’t say I’d change a thing. It’s also free! Just fantastic.