Jolt of Caffeine for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By rickyessenacid

  Ignore anyone complaining about ads

  There are no ads in this product. After your first use, the developers of this free tool show you their other tools, as part of a screen that thanks you for downloading. That’s not an “ad” in my book (NO 3rd parties paying for placement, NO tracking, etc). Thats just the dev saying, “Hey, I took time to build this useful tool, and you got it for free. I also make other software.” If you don’t want to check it out, you close the window, and that’s literally it. Never pops up again. Never “shows ads” while running. People just don’t pay attention to whats actually on their screen. Thank you for the fantastic tool, devs. Works great, has robust options, and does NOT have ads :)

  
  
• By MegaMosquito

  Works, but a couple of minor annoyances...

  First annoyance is that it takes 3 clicks/taps to turn it on (i.e., tap menu bar icon, tap "start jolt for" then tap then time, which is always forever in my case). How about tap the icon in the menu bar once to turn it on or off with the current time setting? Second annoyance is this weird dialog that comes up every time I turn it off (only takes 2 taps/clicks to turn it off). The dialog says omething like, "are you still having troubles with your Windows sleeping? if so, we are here to support you...". So clicking the "No" (or yes) button on that dialog makes the 3rd tap/click to shut it off. Other than those minor things it works as expected. I would prefer the "on" icon to just be a full cup, without the BIG BRIGHT RED bit, but meh. No big deal.

  
  
• By Horizons Church

  Perfect Successor to Caffiene

  We are a multi-site church with presentation iMacs in each of our locations. Since 2011, we've used Caffiene to prevent our displays from going to sleep during our services. Once we updated to Mojave, one by one we started to notice that Caffiene no longer worked. We were sad to see that the app had been discontinued. We tried a few other options in the App Store, and Jolt has by far been our favorite replacement. We like being able to create a keyboard shortcut to active and deactivate the app (ours is Cmd Shift J). We haven't had any problems at all. Thank you Pocket Bits LLC!

  
  
• By lion0423

  Works perfectly as intended! Highly recommended!

  I download large files and I get annoyed when my Windows goes to sleep. The files either pause downloading or cancel them altogether. This is so irritating especially if files have been downloading for hours. Also, when streaming, movies pause when my Windows goes to sleep. This is particularly a hassle when you have to stand up and wake-up your Windows (I connect my Windows to a TV when streaming movies). JOLT OF CAFFEINE solves all these issues for me, and more... I highly recommend this app! It's absolutely free and without ads. Two thumbs up!

  
  

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