Afterlid vs Monish

AfterLid is the iPhone companion for long-running work on your Mac. Check that your computer is online, healthy, and still working—without opening the lid or being in the same room. SEE YOUR MAC FROM ANYWHERE • View live Sleepy, Awake, and Always On status • Check online state, lid state, battery, power source, thermal pressure, and safety limits • Follow high-level AI agent activity and see when work needs your attention • Track usage windows from supported AI provider connections • Link your Macs to one account and switch between them • Use Home Screen widgets for quick status and mode access CONTROL POWER MODES Sleepy returns your Mac to its normal power behavior. Awake prevents idle sleep while the lid is open. Always On keeps eligible work available with the lid closed, within strict safety limits. Your Mac always has the final say. Battery, thermal, heartbeat, and session-duration safeguards can stop an Always On session automatically. MAKE IT YOURS Choose a character whose animation follows your Mac’s current mode. Browse approved characters in the marketplace, switch your active character across linked devices, or use Pro to create and import a validated character pack. FREE AND PRO Free includes live read-only Mac status, one supported usage connection, and access to saved characters. AfterLid Pro adds remote mode control, agent activity, all supported usage connections, and character creation and import. Eligible accounts can try full access for seven days. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your AI prompts, commands, project paths, work files, and provider credentials stay on your Mac. AfterLid only relays the sanitized status needed to show health, activity, usage, and requested controls. REQUIREMENTS Install AfterLid on your Mac, sign in with the same account on both devices, and approve the Mac link once. Remote features require an internet connection.

Your agents, live on your lock screen. Paste one line into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, n8n or any script and it can send pushes, live progress and yes/no questions to your iPhone. No account, no SDK, nothing to install on your computer. Monish creates a private key on this iPhone. The line you paste carries it, and your agent reads the rest by itself. What lands on your iPhone Progress, live. A Live Activity on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, updated in place: tests 412 of 440, step 3 of 5, a countdown. Your agent can add a Stop button. Questions. Your agent asks before it deploys, sends or spends. Tap Approve or Deny on the lock screen, or type a reply in the app. A question left unanswered expires as a no. Results. One notification when the work lands, with the figures that matter. Failures show in red. Numbers. Two to four figures, such as signups, revenue or tests passed, kept live on the lock screen if your agent wants. How it works 1. Install Monish. It creates a private key for this iPhone. 2. Copy the line from the app and paste it into your agent. 3. Your agent sends a first ping. From then on, it reaches you when it matters. Not just for code Ask your agent to watch a price and ping you when it drops, to brief you at 7 with meetings and weather, or to ask before it sends a reply to your landlord. If it can run a command, it can reach your iPhone. Quiet by default Agents follow a short guide that tells them to ping for results, failures and decisions, not for every step. A long run stays on one live card instead of twenty notifications. Quiet hours keep pings silent at night, and failures can still ring. Private by design No name, no email, no phone number. What your agents send is kept 48 hours on our server so the app can catch up on a missed notification, then deleted. Answers are kept 24 hours. Your feed lives on your iPhone. Anonymous analytics and crash reports only: no ads, no tracking. Free No subscription, no in-app purchase, no ads. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, n8n, cron jobs, CI pipelines and any script that can run curl. Monish is an independent app, not affiliated with the makers of these tools. Requires iOS 17.2 or later. Live Activities in the Dynamic Island need an iPhone with a Dynamic Island. Support: monish.cc/support Privacy: monish.cc/privacy