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JigTail
A menu-bar mouse jiggler that keeps your Mac awake
JigTail waits until you're idle, then nudges your cursor just enough to keep sleep and the screensaver away. Free, native, and open source for macOS.
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Pablo, the maker of JigTail.
Long renders, builds, downloads and backups should not be interrupted because your Mac decided to sleep or start the screensaver. Most jigglers just move the cursor all the time. JigTail only steps in when you are idle, and it can be conditional: it can run only when specific apps are open, when CPU usage is high, or while music is playing. You can also toggle it manually from the menu bar with a live countdown.
What you get: - Idle-aware cursor nudging, so it stays out of your way while you work - Triggers by app, CPU load or music playback - Sleep prevention through IOPMAssertion - Launch at login, with light, dark and system themes - No accounts, no network requests, no telemetry
It is free, open source (MIT), signed and notarized, native SwiftUI for Apple Silicon on macOS 13+.
I would love your feedback, especially on which triggers you would like to see next. Thanks for checking it out!
More of what I build: pablocampina.dev
About JigTail on Product Hunt
“A menu-bar mouse jiggler that keeps your Mac awake”
JigTail was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 9 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #129 on the daily leaderboard. JigTail waits until you're idle, then nudges your cursor just enough to keep sleep and the screensaver away. Free, native, and open source for macOS.
On the analytics side, JigTail competes within Mac, Open Source and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 185k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how JigTail performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted JigTail?
JigTail was hunted by Pablo Campina. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of JigTail including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Pablo Campina
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Pablo, the maker of JigTail.
Long renders, builds, downloads and backups should not be interrupted because your Mac decided to sleep or start the screensaver. Most jigglers just move the cursor all the time. JigTail only steps in when you are idle, and it can be conditional: it can run only when specific apps are open, when CPU usage is high, or while music is playing. You can also toggle it manually from the menu bar with a live countdown.
What you get:
- Idle-aware cursor nudging, so it stays out of your way while you work
- Triggers by app, CPU load or music playback
- Sleep prevention through IOPMAssertion
- Launch at login, with light, dark and system themes
- No accounts, no network requests, no telemetry
It is free, open source (MIT), signed and notarized, native SwiftUI for Apple Silicon on macOS 13+.
I would love your feedback, especially on which triggers you would like to see next. Thanks for checking it out!
More of what I build: pablocampina.dev