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Fact sheet

Fact	Detail
Name	Night Crew
What it is	A macOS menu bar app for AI coding agents. Keeps your Mac awake only while AI coding agents are working, even with the lid closed, and lets it sleep the moment they finish.
Works with	Claude Code (Anthropic), Codex (OpenAI), Cursor (Anysphere), Gemini CLI (Google)
Price	US$9 at launch, rising to US$12 on 1 December 2026. One-time purchase; taxes added at checkout.
Free trial	14 days of every feature. No account or card needed. After the trial, every feature needs a licence.
Licence	One price, up to 2 Macs, future updates and features included. 30-day refund, no questions asked.
Safety guards	Battery floor of 15% (30% for lid mode on battery); heat guard on by default, and always on in lid mode; 24-hour cap. Lid mode runs on the charger only by default.
Requirements	macOS 14+ · Apple silicon · signed and notarized by Apple
Launch	10 November 2026
Version	1.0.1 (build 11), released 7 November 2026
Maker	Atique Firoz, independent developer
Sold through	Polar, merchant of record
Website	nightcrewapp.com
Press contact	support@nightcrewapp.com

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Short (25 words)

Night Crew is a macOS menu bar app that keeps a Mac awake only while AI coding agents are working, even with the lid closed.

Long (50 words)

Night Crew is a macOS menu bar app that keeps a Mac awake only while AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI) are working, even with the lid closed, then lets it sleep again. Battery and heat guards are on by default. Independent developer Atique Firoz builds it.

Images

Social card (PNG, 1200 × 630), with the app icon and headline.
App icon (PNG, 512 × 512).

For screenshots of the app or a larger icon, email support@nightcrewapp.com.

More about Night Crew

How it works
Security: what runs as root, and what the hook reads
About the maker
Changelog