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Put the notch
to work.

Notch turns the camera cutout on your MacBook into a Dynamic Island–style tray for music, live activities, and the coding agents waiting on you.

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Version 1.4.0 · macOS 15 or later · Free & open source

Hover the notch to open it.

Features

Everything at a glance.
Nothing in the way.

Coding agents

Your agents tap you on the shoulder.

Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex show up when they need permission, ask a question, finish, or fail. Allow or deny right from the notch, type a reply, or jump straight to the terminal tab.

Claude Code · apiWants to edit Sources/Router.swift
DenyAllow
Codex · webWhich database should I migrate first?
Question
Claude Code · notchRunning the release build
5:12
Cursor · clipAll tests passing
Finished
Claude Code · infraRate limit lifts at 14:00
Failed
AfterglowNova Lane

Now Playing

Your music, one hover away.

Artwork, title, and controls. Click the title to jump to the app, window, or browser tab that's playing.

Charging 82% Low Power Work Focus Microphone on AirPods 74% Volume Brightness

Live activities

What changed, where you look.

Charging, Low Power, Focus, mic and camera, headphones, volume, and brightness. Turn each one on or off.

Design reviewStarts in 4:00
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Meetings

Never late to the call.

A countdown to your next event, with a Join button for video calls.

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Shelf

A pocket for files.

Drop files on the notch to keep them at hand. Drag them out again, or AirDrop them.

Notch
Dynamic Island

Layouts

Notch or island. Your call.

Switch layouts any time. On MacBooks with a camera housing, content sits either side of it.

  • FullscreenHidden
  • Mission ControlHidden
  • GamesHidden
  • Screen captureHidden

Out of the way

Knows when to disappear.

Hidden in fullscreen, Mission Control, games, and recordings. Override any of it in Settings.

Request
Finished
Failed

Haptics

Feel the difference.

Distinct trackpad taps for requests, finished tasks, and failures — so you know without looking.

SwiftNative SwiftUI
MITOpen source
0Accounts

Native & open

Light, local, yours.

A native Mac app with no account and no analytics. Read every line on GitHub.

Coding agents

One click to wire up.
Safe by design.

Open Settings → Coding Agents and click Install. Notch registers a tiny hook with each agent and keeps your existing hooks exactly as they were.

Claude Code~/.claude/settings.json
Codex~/.codex/hooks.json
Cursor~/.cursor/hooks.json
  • Never leaves your Mac. Events travel over a Unix socket only your user can open.
  • Can't block an agent. The hook always exits 0 without output.
  • Easy to undo. The previous config is kept as a .notch-backup.
zsh

❯ notch run make test

swift test --parallel

Building for debugging…

Test Suite 'All tests' passed.

  Executed 128 tests, with 0 failures in 41.8s

❯

Tests passed
notch done "Tests passed" notch fail notch ask notch run make test

Anything can talk to the notch. Install the notch command from Settings and use it from any shell or script.

Install

Up and running in a minute.

  1. 1

    Download

    Grab the latest Notch-1.4.0.zip from GitHub Releases.

    Download →
  2. 2

    Move to Applications

    Unzip and drag Notch.app into your /Applications folder.

  3. 3

    Open

    First launch walks you through permissions and turns on launch at login.

Notch is signed but not notarized. If macOS won't open it, clear the quarantine flag and try again:

xattr -cr /Applications/Notch.app

Give your notch
something to do.

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