Slack Green

Slack shows you as away 10 minutes after your last input on desktop, and almost at once when your computer sleeps or locks. Mouse jigglers and keep-awake apps only help while your computer is on and Slack is open. Slack Green does the work from a server instead. It signs in with your own Slack session, the same one the Slack web app uses, and refreshes your presence on the schedule you set, such as 9am to 6pm on weekdays. Your laptop can sleep, lock or stay shut. You connect a workspace in about two minutes with the Chrome extension, or paste the two session tokens by hand. Plans are $3.99 a month, or $1.99 a month billed yearly, with a 14-day free trial. The $78.99 lifetime plan adds a CLI, so you can run it on your own machine and keep your tokens there.