New · 0.1.0 Shortcuts, busy-drive help and a new Settings window

Stay awake.
Sleep safely.

A tiny menu bar app for your Mac. Snooze Guard keeps it awake through downloads, renders and presentations. Auto Eject takes your external drives offline before it sleeps and brings them back when it wakes.

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Free · v0.1.0 · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · 3.7 MB · Notarized by Apple

Never see "Disk Not Ejected Properly" after your Mac wakes up again.

Works with HDDs, SSDs, SD cards, disk images, discs and network drives

Two tools, one menu

Awake when you need it. Tidy when you don't.

Snooze Guard

Keep your Mac awake for 5 minutes, 24 hours or until you turn it off. Let the display sleep while the Mac keeps working, or switch it on automatically when an external display is connected.

Auto Eject

Before your Mac sleeps, the screen locks or the screensaver starts, SnoozeDock takes your external drives offline safely. When you come back, they're mounted again.

Busy-drive help

If an app is holding a drive open, SnoozeDock names it and offers Force Eject.

Per-drive rules

Unmount one drive, fully eject another, and leave the rest alone.

Shortcuts & Siri

Keep Mac Awake, Eject External Drives and more, from Shortcuts or Spotlight.

Battery aware

Snooze Guard turns off below your battery limit or in Low Power Mode.

Time Machine friendly

A backup in progress is stopped cleanly before its drive goes offline.

Quiet by design

Lives in the menu bar, with no Dock icon. Full Disk Access is optional.

How it works

One night with SnoozeDock

  1. 01 · You close the lid

    Sleep is held

    macOS asks to sleep. SnoozeDock holds it for up to 20 seconds while drives go offline.

  2. 02 · Drives go offline

    Unmounted safely

    Each selected drive is unmounted or ejected, and remembered even if the app restarts.

  3. 03 · Your Mac sleeps

    Nothing left open

    No half-written files and no warnings, even if a USB hub loses power overnight.

  4. 04 · You wake it up

    Drives come back

    After a short delay for docks to power up, each drive is found by its ID and remounted.

Settings

Every option where you'd expect it

A native Mac settings window with clear sections for Snooze Guard, Auto Eject, Battery and Updates. Set it up once and forget about it.

SnoozeDock app icon

Get SnoozeDock

Version 0.1.0 · Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later

Download for Mac — Free
  • Signed & notarized by Apple
  • No account needed
  • Updates itself
  1. 1Open the DMG and drag SnoozeDock to Applications.
  2. 2Open it. A moon appears in your menu bar.
  3. 3Choose your drives and triggers in Settings.

Changelog

What's new

v0.1.0 Latest October 2026

More reliable sleep & wake, Shortcuts, and a new Settings window

  • Drives are only ejected when your Mac is really going to sleep, and come back even if SnoozeDock restarted.
  • Busy-drive help names the app in the way and offers Force Eject.
  • Per-drive rules, Recent Activity in the menu, and Shortcuts & Siri actions.
  • Redesigned Settings, optional Full Disk Access, and support for macOS 14 and later.
  • Automatic updates now work. If you have v0.0.3, download this version once.
v0.0.3 · Dec 2025

More reliable remounting after wake, with automatic retries for slow USB devices.

v0.0.2 · Dec 2025

Better sleep detection, remounting and notifications.

v0.0.1 · Dec 2025

First release of Snooze Guard and Auto Eject.