Your Mac looks asleep.
Your agents never do.

A macOS menu-bar app. One hotkey covers every display with a frosted overlay and a sleeping cat, while NapCat keeps your Mac awake so long-running work — builds, agent workflows, renders — carries on underneath. Press space, unlock, continue.

No, and we won’t pretend otherwise. The overlay is NapCat’s own frosted screen, not the macOS lock screen. You can require Touch ID or your password to dismiss it, which is plenty for open offices, cafés, roommates, and passing glances. If your threat model includes a determined person at your keyboard, use the real lock — Control-Command-Q. NapCat is theater with a deadbolt option; macOS is the vault.

The work is real; only the nap is fake. NapCat doesn’t forge activity, wiggle your mouse, or fake a status dot — it makes a working Mac look like a resting one. Why you’d want that — a quiet screen in a shared space, a build nobody should interrupt, agents grinding while you get lunch — is your business. We made the cat; you make the call.

Yes — the screen stays on behind the frosted overlay, because NapCat’s whole job is keeping your Mac awake. Plugged in, you’ll never notice. On battery, expect roughly the drain of an idle Mac with the screen on. Real sleep saves more power; real sleep also kills your build.

Nothing. No accounts, no analytics, no crash reporters, no telemetry — NapCat has nothing to send and nowhere to send it. Agent Watch reads your own process list and Claude Code's local transcript files, on this Mac, read-only. The optional usage meter makes exactly one kind of network request: to Anthropic, with your own login, to fetch your own limits — and its toggle turns that off completely.

Five dollars, once, for every Mac you own, with lifetime updates. If NapCat isn’t for you, reply to your receipt email within 7 days and the $5 comes back — no questions, no exit survey.

Nothing to manage. Your license covers every Mac you own; install NapCat on the new machine and nap. Keep the receipt email — it’s your proof of purchase.

No. Collapsed, it’s a static black shape — no timers, no polling, effectively zero CPU. It can never take keyboard focus; clicking it never yanks you out of your app.

By default the island only appears on Macs with a real notch. In Settings you can opt into a small floating pill below the menu bar instead — or ignore it; the hotkey and menu bar do everything the island does.

The nap overlay covers every display, fullscreen apps included. The island lives only on the built-in notched screen — we don’t draw fake notches on your external monitor.

Those keep your Mac awake and look awake doing it. NapCat keeps your Mac awake while looking asleep — the overlay is the product. If you only want keep-awake with no theater, those free apps are great.

macOS 13 Ventura or later, on Apple Silicon. The notch island runs on the same versions — it just also needs a notch, or the floating-pill opt-in.

Only if you ask it to. Turning on Agent Watch installs one hook into Claude Code’s settings, with your consent and a backup. The hook reports session events to NapCat over a local socket on your Mac — nothing is sent anywhere, because there is no network code to send it with. Never turned it on? Then nothing was ever installed.

No. During a nap the island hides and approvals wait in line. Waking the Mac — with Touch ID or your password, if you’ve set that — is the gate. A passerby can’t grant your agent shell access on a “sleeping” screen.

Claude Code, today. Other agents are on the roadmap only when they’re real — we don’t list integrations we haven’t shipped.

No. It answers the same question Claude was already asking, from a different surface. Deny sends a normal denial; if NapCat doesn’t answer, Claude’s own terminal prompt takes over. Remove the hook and everything is exactly as before.