Your agent is thinking. You just opened Twitter. Again.

Meanwhile gives the wait one small job - then puts you back.

zsh - ~/work/api

❯ claude "migrate auth to sessions"

⠋Running… esc to interrupt · 3m 12s

MEANWHILE · FLAGS OF THE WORLD

Japan

dismisses when your task finishes

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01 · THE LOOP

It notices.

A task starts taking a while. Meanwhile sees the wait - not the work.

It offers one thing.

One small thing. A flag to name, a round of snake, a breath. Thirty seconds, fully formed.

It puts you back.

Task finishes, card dismisses, terminal front and center. No residue.

02 · THE FINE PRINT, LARGE

Meanwhile is a native macOS app that lives in your menu bar. It runs locally and reads nothing - it knows a task finished; it never knows what the task was. No account, no feed, no streaks.