Notch

the app's actual UI — click the notch to toggle it

Keep an eye on
your agents.

Cursor on your Mac. Claude Code on one VM, Codex on another. Every session's state lives in your notch — approve requests, answer Claude's questions, watch your plan usage. No terminal-hopping.

Download for Mac View on GitHub

macOS 14+ · ~3.8 MB · free & open source

works with Claude Code Codex Cursor more agents coming

Everything you need to stay in flow

● working

Live monitoring

Every session, every machine — one glance at the notch.

● waiting

Remote approve

Permission requests land in the notch. One click decides — with diff previews and plan review.

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Answer questions

Claude's multiple-choice questions pop up as pickers. Choose, submit, keep moving.

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Usage at a glance

Your Claude plan's 5-hour and weekly limits, with reset countdowns, right in the notch.

lid closed

Runs with the lid shut

One toggle keeps the Mac awake on battery or power — sessions carry on while the screen is locked.

>_ agents

Multi-agent

Claude Code, Codex and Cursor today — more on the way.

~3.8 MB

Lightweight

Native Swift. Near-zero CPU, no Electron.

0 prompts

Permissionless

Never asks for a single macOS permission.

self-hosted

Private by design

Your machines talk straight to your Mac. No cloud.

zero config

Up and running in a minute

Open Notch.app — it hosts its own server. Connect each VM or computer with one line:

curl your-mac:4519/install?token=… | bash

See it in action

Music: “Inspired” — Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0

Bring your agents to the notch.

Free and open source. If your Mac is ever unreachable, sessions fall back to their own terminal prompts — nothing gets stuck waiting on Notch.

Download for Mac

Signed & notarized by Apple — just drag to Applications and open.