Keep your Mac awake but let the screen turn off

You do not always want the screen on. Keeping a Mac awake for a long download, a build, or a remote session does not mean the display has to stay lit, burning power and wearing the panel. Keepresso keeps these two things separate.

System sleep and display sleep are different

macOS has two kinds of sleep: the whole system going to sleep, and just the display turning off. Keepresso can hold one without the other. Its default keeps the system awake while letting the display sleep normally, so your work keeps running and the screen still goes dark when you step away.

Let the screen sleep on a timer

If you want the screen to stay on for a bit and then yield, turn on "allow the screen saver / display sleep after N minutes idle". The Mac stays awake the whole time; only the display sleeps after the idle minutes you pick. Move the mouse and it comes back.

With the lid closed

When you close the lid in lid-closed mode, Keepresso puts the internal screen to sleep so it is not lit inside the shut lid, while everything else keeps running. Same idea: awake, but with the screen off.

When you do want the display on

Some cases need the screen lit, a kiosk, a dashboard, a status wall. For those, turn on prevent display sleep as well, and the display stays on for as long as the session does.