SleepBar v1.0.7

✨ What's new

• ⌨️ Keyboard backlight follows Screen Off — the 息屏 / Screen Off action now also turns the built-in keyboard backlight to 0 (saving the level first) and restores it when you come back, alongside the display brightness and the external display.
• ⚡ Faster external wake — re-lighting the external monitor now retrains the DisplayPort link with a momentary refresh-rate switch (same resolution) instead of a resolution toggle, so it lights back up noticeably faster and no longer reshuffles your windows.

Includes everything from v1.0.6 (Screen Off — true black on built-in + external without sleeping the display, keeps the GPU rendering), v1.0.5 (Keep Awake), v1.0.4 (Lock, Off & Stay Awake), v1.0.3 (Now, 5 new languages, better source install), v1.0.2 (Launch at Login) and v1.0.1 (Timed Lock).

📦 Install

Download SleepBar-v1.0.7.dmg, open it, and drag SleepBar.app to Applications.

This build is ad-hoc signed but not Apple-notarized. On first launch macOS Gatekeeper may block it. To open: right-click the app → Open → Open, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SleepBar.app

Prefer no DMG? The one-line installer compiles from source and avoids Gatekeeper entirely — see the README.

Requirements: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later · Apple Silicon (arm64).

SleepBar v1.0.6

✨ What's new

• 🖥️ Screen Off (息屏) — a new When Time's Up action (at the top of the list) that goes truly black without sleeping the display, so long-running GPU work (renders, AI jobs) keeps running overnight. It dims the built-in display to 0 (DisplayServices) and powers off the external display over DDC/CI (IOAVService, VCP D6), keeps the system awake (caffeinate -dis), and does not lock. Move the mouse and it restores instantly — built-in brightness returns and the external is re-lit via a DisplayPort link retrain (the external can't be woken back over DDC once its panel is off).
• Renamed 熄屏 → 息屏 throughout the Chinese UI.

Includes everything from v1.0.5 (Keep Awake), v1.0.4 (Lock, Off & Stay Awake), v1.0.3 (Now, 5 new languages, better source install), v1.0.2 (Launch at Login) and v1.0.1 (Timed Lock).

📦 Install

Download SleepBar-v1.0.6.dmg, open it, and drag SleepBar.app to Applications.

This build is ad-hoc signed but not Apple-notarized. On first launch macOS Gatekeeper may block it. To open: right-click the app → Open → Open, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SleepBar.app

Prefer no DMG? The one-line installer compiles from source and avoids Gatekeeper entirely — see the README.

Requirements: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later · Apple Silicon (arm64).

SleepBar v1.0.5

✨ What's new

• ☕️ Keep Awake — a new always-on toggle right below Language. Check it and the Mac won't sleep (it asserts caffeinate -is: blocks idle/system sleep, the display can still turn off). No timer, no trigger — it just stays in effect until you uncheck it, and it's remembered across launches. Fully independent of the Screen Off Timer, so you can combine it freely with any When Time's Up action.

Includes everything from v1.0.4 (Lock, Off & Stay Awake), v1.0.3 (Now, 5 new languages, better source install), v1.0.2 (Launch at Login) and v1.0.1 (Timed Lock).

📦 Install

Download SleepBar-v1.0.5.dmg, open it, and drag SleepBar.app to Applications.

This build is ad-hoc signed but not Apple-notarized. On first launch macOS Gatekeeper may block it. To open: right-click the app → Open → Open, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SleepBar.app

Prefer no DMG? The one-line installer compiles from source and avoids Gatekeeper entirely — see the README.

Requirements: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later · Apple Silicon (arm64).

SleepBar v1.0.4

✨ What's new

• 🔒 Lock, Off & Stay Awake — a new When Time's Up action: locks the screen, turns the display off, and keeps the Mac awake (it won't sleep). Good for "lock the screen and blank the display, but keep downloads/tasks running."

Includes everything from v1.0.3 (Now, 5 new languages, better source install), v1.0.2 (Launch at Login) and v1.0.1 (Timed Lock).

📦 Install

Download SleepBar-v1.0.4.dmg, open it, and drag SleepBar.app to Applications.

This build is ad-hoc signed but not Apple-notarized. On first launch macOS Gatekeeper may block it. To open: right-click the app → Open → Open, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SleepBar.app

Prefer no DMG? The one-line installer compiles from source and avoids Gatekeeper entirely — see the README.

Requirements: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later · Apple Silicon (arm64).

SleepBar v1.0.3

✨ What's new

• ⚡ Now — new menu item that runs the end action (sleep / lock / screen off…) immediately, no countdown.
• 🌍 5 new languages — Spanish, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, and German join English and Chinese.
• 🔍 Better source install — install.sh now installs a real app into ~/Applications (shows up in Spotlight), adds a sleepbar terminal alias, and offers a Launch-at-Login toggle.

Includes everything from v1.0.2 (Launch at Login) and v1.0.1 (Timed Lock).

📦 Install

Download SleepBar-v1.0.3.dmg, open it, and drag SleepBar.app to Applications.

This build is ad-hoc signed but not Apple-notarized. On first launch macOS Gatekeeper may block it. To open: right-click the app → Open → Open, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SleepBar.app

Prefer no DMG? The one-line installer compiles from source and avoids Gatekeeper entirely — see the README.

Requirements: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later · Apple Silicon (arm64).

SleepBar v1.0.2

✨ What's new

• 🔓 Launch at Login — new menu toggle (in the packaged app) to start SleepBar automatically when you log in, powered by SMAppService. No permission prompts. After dragging SleepBar.app to Applications, just click the menu-bar icon → Launch at Login.

Includes everything from v1.0.1 (the Timed Lock feature).

📦 Install

Download SleepBar-v1.0.2.dmg, open it, and drag SleepBar.app to Applications.

This build is ad-hoc signed but not Apple-notarized. On first launch macOS Gatekeeper may block it. To open: right-click the app → Open → Open, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SleepBar.app

Prefer no DMG? The one-line installer compiles from source and avoids Gatekeeper entirely — see the README.

Requirements: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later · Apple Silicon (arm64).

SleepBar v1.0.1

✨ What's new

• 🔁 Timed Lock / 定时锁屏 — within a window you set, auto-locks every time you've been idle for a chosen interval, re-arming after each unlock until the time's up.
  • One-sentence setup: "lock after 5 min idle, run for 2 hours, then stop."
  • No permissions required — reads system idle time only, never intercepts input.
  • Low power — adaptive scheduling (no per-second polling); zero polling while the screen is locked.
  • The "run for" duration is a fixed countdown — locking/unlocking never resets it. Mutually exclusive with the screen-off timer.

📦 Install

Download SleepBar-v1.0.1.dmg, open it, and drag SleepBar.app to Applications.

This build is ad-hoc signed but not Apple-notarized. On first launch macOS Gatekeeper may block it. To open: right-click the app → Open → Open, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SleepBar.app

Prefer no DMG? The one-line installer compiles from source and avoids Gatekeeper entirely — see the README.

Requirements: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later · Apple Silicon (arm64).