Notch

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

macos coding-agent monitor

Keep an eye on
your coding agents.

Claude Code on your Mac. Cursor on a VM. Notch lives in your Mac's notch and shows every session's state — and when an agent asks to run something, you approve or deny it right there. No terminal-hopping.

Download for Mac View on GitHub

macOS 14+ · ~2 MB · free & open source

works with Claude Code 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.

>_ agents

Multi-agent

Claude Code and Cursor today — more on the way.

~2 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.

Up and running in a minute

1

Open Notch.app

It hosts its own server — zero config.

2

Connect your machines

One line on each VM or computer.

curl your-mac:4519/install?token=… | bash
3

Approve from the notch

A chime when a session needs you — one click decides.

See it in action

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

First launch: right-click the app and choose Open — it isn't notarized yet.