diff --git a/.claude/launch.json b/.claude/launch.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 602e0ba..0000000
--- a/.claude/launch.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "version": "0.0.1",
-  "configurations": [
-    {
-      "name": "client",
-      "runtimeExecutable": "npm",
-      "runtimeArgs": ["start", "--workspace=client"],
-      "port": 3000
-    }
-  ]
-}
diff --git a/client/src/lib/motion.ts b/client/src/lib/motion.ts
index f99b7f0..b19e1ea 100644
--- a/client/src/lib/motion.ts
+++ b/client/src/lib/motion.ts
@@ -36,11 +36,19 @@ export function useCountUp(value: number | null, durationMs = 650): number | nul
   const reduced = usePrefersReducedMotion();
   const [display, setDisplay] = useState<number | null>(value);
   const frame = useRef<number>();
+  const settleTimer = useRef<number>();
   const from = useRef(0);
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    if (value == null || reduced) {
+    const settle = () => {
       setDisplay(value);
+      from.current = value ?? 0;
+    };
+
+    // Nothing to animate towards, or the viewer asked for no motion. Also
+    // covers a hidden tab, where requestAnimationFrame does not run at all.
+    if (value == null || reduced || document.hidden) {
+      settle();
       return;
     }
 
@@ -52,12 +60,23 @@ export function useCountUp(value: number | null, durationMs = 650): number | nul
       const t = Math.min(1, (now - start) / durationMs);
       setDisplay(origin + delta * easeOut(t));
       if (t < 1) frame.current = requestAnimationFrame(tick);
-      else from.current = value;
+      else settle();
     };
 
     frame.current = requestAnimationFrame(tick);
+
+    /* The animation is decoration; the number is not.
+       This used to be rAF alone, so when frames never arrived — a
+       backgrounded tab, a throttled webview — `setDisplay` was never called
+       and the card kept rendering the *previous* value. Stepping back a day
+       changed the date in the header while every figure stayed on the day
+       before: not a missing animation, but the wrong data shown confidently.
+       The timer guarantees the final value lands either way. */
+    settleTimer.current = window.setTimeout(settle, durationMs + 250);
+
     return () => {
       if (frame.current) cancelAnimationFrame(frame.current);
+      window.clearTimeout(settleTimer.current);
     };
   }, [value, durationMs, reduced]);