AFK
Step away — your AI agent keeps running, screen private
AFK launched on June 15, 2026 with 4 votes, #3,322 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Running an AI agent or a long task and need to step away? Go AFK (Ctrl-Cmd-A): your work keeps running behind a private full-screen cover, your Mac stays awake, and you get a ping the moment your process or timer finishes. $9 once, no subscription.
A tiny Mac menu-bar app. Go AFK: keep your long task or AI agent running, hide your screen behind a private cover, and get pinged the moment it's done. $9 once, no subscription.
Running an AI agent or a long task and need to grab coffee — or just don't want the café reading your screen? Go AFK: your work keeps running behind a private cover, and you get a ping the moment it's done. Close the lid and it sleeps. Leave it open and anyone walking by reads your screen. So you sit there glancing at a terminal, waiting for an agent or a render or a build to finish. AFK lets you actually walk away — and tells you when it's done. Nothing, a timer, or a process — type python , ffmpeg , your build. AFK watches it. A calm cover fills every display so no one can read it. Your work keeps running behind it; the Mac won't sleep. The second your process exits or the timer ends, AFK…from afk-landing-61p.pages.dev
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