A small update that makes the trial and buying a license clearer.

• Trial days in the menu. The menu shows how many days of your free trial are left.
• One heads-up, two days before the end. Stay Green tells you once when two days remain, then leaves you alone. It never interrupts a call or screen share.
• Plans side by side. "Buy a License..." opens a window with Monthly, Yearly and Lifetime. Each button opens checkout for that plan, and "I have a license key" takes you straight to key entry.
• A clear state when the trial ends. Instead of quietly going grey, the menu bar icon shows a slashed orange circle and the menu says keep-active is off. The plans window opens once so you can pick a plan or enter a key.

A small update that makes the trial and buying a license clearer.

• Trial days in the tray menu. The menu shows how many days of your free trial are left.
• One heads-up, two days before the end. A single notification when two days remain; click it to see the plans. It never interrupts a call or screen share.
• Plans side by side. "Buy a License..." opens a window with Monthly, Yearly and Lifetime. Each button opens checkout for that plan, and "I have a license key" takes you straight to key entry.
• A clear state when the trial ends. Instead of quietly going grey, the tray icon shows a slashed orange ring and the menu says keep-active is off. The plans window opens once so you can pick a plan or enter a key.

A small fix to last week's change.

• Auto-pause now stays on for new installs. In 0.5.2, a fresh install started with auto-pause outside work hours turned on, but it could quietly switch off again the next time Stay Green opened. It now stays on until you change it. If you installed 0.5.2 and want Stay Green to pause after work, check that auto-pause is on in Settings.
• Settings you chose yourself are untouched. If you turned auto-pause on or off, this update keeps your choice.

Stay Green now runs on Windows 10 and 11 (x64). It lives in the system tray and keeps your chat status green while you read, think or take a call.

• Keeps you Available, quietly. A harmless keypress (F20 by default, which does nothing visible) resets the Windows idle timer, so Teams, Slack, Zoom and Discord keep showing you as active. Your cursor never moves.
• Keep your screen awake too. Optionally stop the display from sleeping or locking while Stay Green is on.
• Pauses itself after work. Set your work hours and days, plus an optional lunch break, and Stay Green steps aside outside them.
• Meeting aware. It notices when you're on a call and adjusts, so it never gets in the way.
• Starts with Windows. Choose it on the welcome screen, or turn it on later in Settings.
• Updates itself. New versions download in the background and install the next time Stay Green starts.
• One license, either platform. Your Stay Green license key works on a Mac or a PC, and the 14-day free trial needs no card.

Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" the first time you run the installer. Click More info, then Run anyway.

A small change to how Stay Green starts out.

• Auto-pause outside work hours is now on by default. On a fresh install, Stay Green keeps you green during your work hours (09:00 to 17:00, Monday to Friday) and pauses itself in the evening and on weekends. Change the hours, or turn auto-pause off, in Settings or from the menu bar.
• Already using Stay Green? Nothing changes for you. If you never turned auto-pause on, it stays off after this update.

A fix for everyone on the latest macOS.

• Your screen no longer brightens on its own. On macOS 27, the key Stay Green tapped to keep you active (F15) started doubling as "increase brightness". It now uses F20 by default, a key no Mac keyboard has and macOS never binds to anything.
• Pick your own keep-alive key. Settings has a new "Keep-alive key" option. If F20 clashes with a shortcut you use, choose F16 to F19 instead, or "None" to rely only on the invisible zero-distance mouse move.

Your green status works exactly as before, with no action needed after updating.

Take charge of your subscription without leaving the app.

• Manage Subscription, right from the menu. A new "Manage Subscription…" item opens your secure customer portal, where you can update your payment card, cancel anytime, or copy your license key again.
• Lost your purchase email? No problem. The portal signs you in with a magic link sent to the email you bought with, so you can always get back in - even if that original receipt is long gone.

Still macOS-only; Windows is in development.

More control over when Stay Green steps aside.

• Pause for a set time. A new Pause submenu lets you pause for 1, 2, or 4 hours; Stay Green resumes on its own when the time is up.
• Pause until a date & time you pick. Choose any future moment and keep-active switches back on automatically then.
• Choose what a manual pause stops. A new "Manual pause stops:" setting lets a pause stop the green nudging, keep-screen-awake, or both - so you can pause your presence while still keeping your screen from sleeping.

Still macOS-only; Windows is in development.

Clearer license status, and subscriptions are now live.

• Renewal date in the menu. When you're subscribed, Stay Green now shows your plan's renewal date in the menu instead of a vague status, so where your license stands is always clear at a glance.
• Subscribe in a couple of taps. Pick monthly or yearly at getstaygreen.com, then activate the app with the license key from your email. The 7-day free trial is still there to try everything first, no card needed.

Still macOS-only; Windows is in development.

A small fix to the updater.

• Update prompts come to the front. When Stay Green finds a new version, the update window now appears on top of your other windows instead of behind them, so you won't miss it. (Stay Green lives in the menu bar, so its windows didn't always come forward on their own.)

Still macOS-only; Windows is in development.

A quick fix for activation.

• Paste with Cmd-V. The license key field (and other panels) now accept the standard keyboard shortcuts: paste, copy, cut, and select all. Previously you had to right-click to paste.

Still macOS-only; Windows is in development.

A big update focused on making Stay Green smarter, calmer, and more yours.

Smarter and more natural

• Meeting-aware. When you're on a call (a conferencing app plus your mic in use), Stay Green eases off the silent nudges, since you're clearly present, and keeps your screen awake so it never sleeps mid-meeting. Prefer it to keep nudging through calls? There's a toggle for that.
• More natural timing. The keep-alive now varies its timing slightly instead of firing like clockwork, so your activity looks organic rather than robotic.
• Only when it matters. Optionally keep green only while a chat app is actually running, so nothing happens when there's nobody to see your status.

More control over pausing

• Finer off-hours and lunch pauses. Choose exactly what each pause stops: keep your screen awake through lunch while pausing the nudges, or the reverse.
• Low Power Mode. Optionally pause automatically while your Mac is in Low Power Mode to save battery.
• Global hotkey. Pause and resume from anywhere with a keyboard shortcut.

See it working, and stay discreet

• Activity view. A new window shows how long you've stayed active today plus a timeline of recent keep-alives and pauses, so you can confirm at a glance that it's working.
• Stealth mode. Hide the menu-bar icon entirely and bring it back with a reveal shortcut, for a completely invisible setup.
• Friendly first run. A short welcome walks you through what the app does and the one permission it needs.

Licensing

• Move between Macs easily. Each license now activates one Mac, with a one-click "Deactivate this Mac" so you can move your license to a new machine whenever you like.

Still macOS-only; Windows is in development.

Stay Green can now keep itself up to date, so fixes reach you automatically.

• Automatic updates. New versions install themselves in the background - no re-downloading, and you keep your Accessibility permission.
• Pause over lunch. A configurable daily break window inside your work hours, on top of the off-hours pause.
• About window. Quickly check which version you're running.
• Snappier on wake. State refreshes the moment your Mac wakes from sleep.

Still macOS-only; Windows is in development.

The first public release of Stay Green for macOS. A tiny menu-bar app that keeps your chat status green while you're idle.

Added

• Keep me active: silently keeps you showing as active so Teams, Slack & other chat apps stay Available while you step away, without moving your cursor or interrupting you.
• Keep screen awake: optionally stop the display sleeping and the screensaver starting (and, unlike caffeinate, it still keeps you green).
• Auto-pause off-hours: set work hours and active weekdays. Outside them Stay Green steps aside.
• Quick pauses: pause for 1 hour, or until you resume.
• Launch at login, menu-bar only (no Dock icon), with a live status dot.

Notes

• Available now for macOS as a notarized download.
• Windows support is in active development.