Noodle

Stretching while Claude is noodling.

While Claude Code works on a long prompt, a card slides in from the corner of your screen with a quick desk stretch, and a little noodle shows you how.

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Free and open source · macOS 13 or later

How it works

Quick prompts never trigger a card, and it never steals focus from your terminal or editor.

Step 1

Send Claude a long prompt

If Claude is still working 15 seconds later, your noodle takes that as a cue.

Step 2

A card slides in

Like a notification, from the corner of your screen. At most one every 20 minutes.

Step 3

Stretch along

Hit Start and your noodle demos the move and times the set. Or ignore it, and it drifts off.

Waits while you're on a call Snooze anytime Works in the CLI, VS Code, Cursor and Claude Desktop Respects Reduce motion No account, no network calls

Get Noodle

Two ways in. Either one shows you the exact change to your Claude Code settings and asks before writing it.

Download the app

A regular Mac download. No Terminal needed, Noodle hooks itself up to Claude Code.

Download Noodle.zip

Unzip it and drag Noodle into Applications.
Open it. Noodle is free and not notarized by Apple, so macOS blocks it the first time. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway.
Click Connect. Noodle opens on a Connect to Claude Code step that shows the exact change to your settings, and backs up the old file before writing.

Install from Terminal

You've already got one open for Claude. This does all three steps in one go.

One line

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pcybriwsky/noodle/main/scripts/get.sh | bash

Or with Homebrew

brew install --cask pcybriwsky/tap/noodle && noodle setup

Want to read it first? Here's the script. To uninstall, see the README.