WakeMyMac

Wake, sleep or shut down your Mac on schedule — from the menu bar.

The menu bar panel listing a rule, with a live countdown to the next scheduled event

Rule editor set to Repeats, with checkboxes for each day of the week

Rule editor set to Once, with a calendar picker open on a single date

Your rules and a live countdown to the next event.

Your Mac should be awake when you sit down to work, and off when you don't need it. macOS used to let you schedule exactly that — then Apple removed the setting.

WakeMyMac brings it back, and lifts the old one-rule limit. Wake for work every weekday morning, sleep at midnight, power on once for an early flight. It sits quietly in the menu bar and keeps to the schedule on its own — even when nobody is logged in.

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Install

brew tap muarifer/tap && brew install --cask wakemymac

After launching, click Install in the panel, then approve WakeMyMac in System Settings → General → Login Items. macOS asks once, because waking a sleeping Mac needs system-level permission.

What it does

Unlimited rules: wake, power on, sleep, shut down or restart
Repeating rules on any days of the week, or one-time rules on a single date
Live countdown to the next scheduled event
Keeps working when nobody is logged in — the schedule survives reboots
Touches only the events it scheduled itself, so other tools keep working

Good to know

WakeMyMac can shut down and restart your Mac unattended. macOS defers a shutdown when an app has unsaved work, but treat a scheduled shutdown as a real one and save your work. Powering on a closed laptop reliably needs the power adapter.