Nothing sleeps
An IOKit assertion holds the Mac awake for exactly as long as it is covered. Builds, renders, downloads, SSH sessions and agents run straight through.
For everyone who runs AI agents and then leaves the desk
Step away. Your Mac keeps working.
drift covers every screen without sleeping a single one. Builds keep building, agents keep running — and the covered screen glows from across the room the moment one of them is blocked and waiting on you.
⇧⌘Lcovers the screen. The same keys uncover it.
macOS 14+ · 14-day trial, no account · Nothing leaves your Mac
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Press ⇧⌘L
Every display is covered in a beat. Nothing is asked, nothing is paused.
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Walk away
The Mac stays awake. The screen fades to true black and keeps your work running behind it.
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It glows when it needs you
An agent blocks on a question, the cover breathes teal and names the tool. You unlock when you are ready.
The signal
One colour, held in reserve.
Everything calm in drift is orange — every mode, every timer, every button, a tool that finished. Teal is spent on exactly one situation, and that rationing is the whole product: a glance from the doorway is an answer instead of a question.
- Working
- A grey line on the covered screen. No glow, no sound. It is doing its job.
- Finished
- A calm orange line. News, not an emergency — and treating it as one is how a signal gets ignored.
- Waiting on you
- The screen breathes teal and names the tool. This is the only thing in drift that is ever teal.
Agent
Claude Code is waiting on you
Still covered. It waits until you do.
Use Touch ID
The covered screen, from across the room.
What it does
A cover, not an interruption.
You could set up Amphetamine, configure Hot Corners, tweak energy settings and adjust your screen saver. Or you could press ⇧⌘L.
Fades to true black
Not display sleep — that would revoke Accessibility and kill your agents. drift paints #000000 over an awake display. Touch anything and it comes back.
Every display
All screens covered, and a monitor plugged in while you are away is covered as you plug it in.
Says why you're gone
Stepped away, coffee, lunch, in a meeting, something's running, waiting on an AI. Six reasons, one engine.
A timer that never unlocks
It counts your break down and then keeps counting up. Only you unlock your Mac — a countdown that opens a screen is not a lock.
Nothing leaves your Mac
No analytics, no account, no telemetry. The only network call drift ever makes is the signed update check.
Agents
Five tools it already knows.
Turn it on and drift connects to the AI coding tools already on your Mac. When one of them stops and waits for an answer, the covered screen glows and names it.
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Gemini
- Cursor
- Copilot
Found, not configured
drift looks for the tools already on this Mac and connects them for you. There is nothing to install, paste or remember.
It notices when it breaks
Agent tools rewrite their own settings when they update. When one drops the connection, drift says so and offers to fix it — a signal that quietly stopped working is worse than no signal.
Your settings are kept
Anything drift touches is copied first, and disconnecting puts the original back exactly as it was.
Pricing
Buy it once. It stays yours.
No subscription, no account, no seat count. Covering your screen never expires either — that part keeps working whatever you decide.
One payment
Buy driftStart the 14-day trial- Covers every display; nothing sleeps, nothing stops
- Glows when Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini or Copilot needs you
- Six away modes, six looks, and a colour picker
- One-time purchase — no subscription, no account
- 12 months of updates included
Bought drift and lost the licence? Get it resent.
Questions worth asking.
Is this just the macOS lock screen?
No. Locking your Mac ends the GUI session, which cuts off the automation your agents depend on. drift covers the screen while the session stays fully alive — and holds your Mac awake the whole time it is covered.
Does the screen really stay off?
It fades to true black over an awake display, so OLED pixels are off and the work keeps going. Real display sleep would take your agents down with it. Touch anything and the screen comes back.
How do I get back in?
The same shortcut that covered it, or Touch ID / your password from the button at the bottom. The shortcut is never shown on the covered screen, and nothing on that screen helps anyone bypass it.
What happens when the trial ends?
Covering your screen, blocking input, keeping the Mac awake and unlocking with Touch ID keep working — permanently. The modes, the looks, the colour picker and the agent glow are what a licence buys.
Does it phone home?
No analytics, no account, no telemetry. Your licence is verified offline on your own Mac, so drift works on a plane. The only network call it ever makes is the signed update check.
My tool isn't one of the five.
Five will never be all of them, and the list grows as tools ship the hooks that make it possible. Tell us which one you use and we will tell you where it stands.
Stop checking your screen.
Cover it, walk away, and let it tell you when something is actually waiting on you.
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