diff --git a/TrayApp.Test/StatusReportTests.cs b/TrayApp.Test/StatusReportTests.cs
index bac994a..c8c756c 100644
--- a/TrayApp.Test/StatusReportTests.cs
+++ b/TrayApp.Test/StatusReportTests.cs
@@ -47,6 +47,28 @@ public void Build_WithAStatusAndDetails_AppendsThemInOrder()
 		Assert.Contains("systemd-inhibit", report, StringComparison.Ordinal);
 	}
 
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void Build_WithAThrowingDetail_ReportsTheErrorInItsRowAndKeepsTheRest()
+	{
+		string report = StatusReport.Build(
+			"demo",
+			"holding",
+			[
+				new StatusDetail("Inhibitor", () => throw new InvalidOperationException("systemd-inhibit was not found on PATH")),
+				new StatusDetail("Helper", () => "present"),
+			]);
+
+		Assert.Contains("Platform:", report, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+		Assert.Contains("Tray icon:", report, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+		Assert.Contains("Inhibitor:     error: systemd-inhibit was not found on PATH", report, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+		Assert.Contains("Helper:", report, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+		Assert.Contains("present", report, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+	}
+
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void Read_WithAThrowingGetter_ReturnsTheError() =>
+		Assert.AreEqual("error: boom", StatusReport.Read(() => throw new InvalidOperationException("boom")));
+
 	[TestMethod]
 	public void Build_EndsWithoutATrailingNewline()
 	{
diff --git a/TrayApp.Test/TrayAppBuilderTests.cs b/TrayApp.Test/TrayAppBuilderTests.cs
index 44607aa..d0a875a 100644
--- a/TrayApp.Test/TrayAppBuilderTests.cs
+++ b/TrayApp.Test/TrayAppBuilderTests.cs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ namespace ktsu.TrayApp.Test;
 
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using ktsu.Essentials.PersistenceProviders.InMemory;
 using ktsu.TrayApp;
@@ -351,6 +352,36 @@ public async Task RunAsync_WithStatus_ReportsWithoutStarting()
 		Assert.IsFalse(started);
 	}
 
+	[TestMethod]
+	[DoNotParallelize]
+	public async Task RunAsync_WithStatusAndThrowingGetters_PrintsEveryRowAndExitsZero()
+	{
+		TextWriter original = Console.Out;
+		using StringWriter output = new();
+		Console.SetOut(output);
+		int exitCode;
+		try
+		{
+			exitCode = await TrayAppBuilder.Create("demo")
+				.Status(() => throw new InvalidOperationException("state unknown"))
+				.Status("Inhibitor", () => throw new InvalidOperationException("systemd-inhibit was not found on PATH"))
+				.Status("Helper", () => "present")
+				.RunAsync(["--no-tray", "--status"])
+				.ConfigureAwait(false);
+		}
+		finally
+		{
+			Console.SetOut(original);
+		}
+
+		string report = output.ToString();
+		Assert.AreEqual(0, exitCode);
+		Assert.Contains("Platform:", report, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+		Assert.Contains("State:         error: state unknown", report, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+		Assert.Contains("Inhibitor:     error: systemd-inhibit was not found on PATH", report, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+		Assert.Contains("Helper:", report, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+	}
+
 	[TestMethod]
 	public async Task RunAsync_WithStatusAndARememberedToggle_RunsNoSetterAndReportsTheLiveState()
 	{
diff --git a/TrayApp/StatusReport.cs b/TrayApp/StatusReport.cs
index 039d9d5..c34a138 100644
--- a/TrayApp/StatusReport.cs
+++ b/TrayApp/StatusReport.cs
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ public static string Build(string name, string? status, IReadOnlyList<StatusDeta
 
 		foreach (StatusDetail detail in details)
 		{
-			AppendRow(report, detail.Label, detail.Value());
+			AppendRow(report, detail.Label, Read(detail.Value));
 		}
 
 		// Every row above appended a newline; the report is quoted and compared in tests, so it ends where
@@ -53,6 +53,28 @@ public static string Build(string name, string? status, IReadOnlyList<StatusDeta
 		return report.ToString().TrimEnd('\r', '\n');
 	}
 
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Reads one of the tool's status getters for the report.
+	/// </summary>
+	/// <remarks>
+	/// The report exists to explain a tool that cannot do its job, and a getter is likely to throw for the
+	/// same reason (a missing helper, say), so a throwing getter becomes its own row's text rather than
+	/// losing every row the library and the other getters would have printed.
+	/// </remarks>
+	/// <param name="getter">The tool's getter.</param>
+	/// <returns>What the getter returned, or <c>error: </c> and the message of what it threw.</returns>
+	internal static string Read(Func<string> getter)
+	{
+		try
+		{
+			return getter();
+		}
+		catch (Exception ex) when (FatalError.IsNotFatal(ex))
+		{
+			return "error: " + ex.Message;
+		}
+	}
+
 	private static void AppendRow(StringBuilder report, string label, string value) =>
 		report.AppendLine($"{(label + ':').PadRight(LabelWidth)}{value}");
 }
diff --git a/TrayApp/TrayAppBuilder.cs b/TrayApp/TrayAppBuilder.cs
index 73cf5ca..e7a293c 100644
--- a/TrayApp/TrayAppBuilder.cs
+++ b/TrayApp/TrayAppBuilder.cs
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ public Task<int> RunAsync(string[] args)
 
 			if (options.ShowStatus)
 			{
-				Console.WriteLine(StatusReport.Build(app.Name, app.Status?.Invoke(), app.StatusDetails));
+				Console.WriteLine(StatusReport.Build(app.Name, app.Status is null ? null : StatusReport.Read(app.Status), app.StatusDetails));
 				return Task.FromResult(ExitSuccess);
 			}