There are a lot of notch apps. Most try to do ~~everything~~.

A few things. Done perfectly.

Notch+ turns the notch into a small island for what needs you: Claude Code approvals, notifications that matter, a player and a file shelf. Liquid Glass. On-device Apple Intelligence. Free.

Get it on GitHub Watch the demo

macOS 26+
Apple silicon
Free
Nothing leaves your Mac

Hover the notch above.

01 / APPROVALS Claude asks. You decide. Permission requests land in the notch with the exact command, a plain-words explanation and a risk label. One click, or Option-Command-Y.

Live status beside the notch while Claude works
If Notch+ is not running, Claude Code asks in the terminal as usual

02 / NOTIFICATIONS What matters floats up. Notifications from every app, sorted by Apple Intelligence into now, later and noise. Each gets a one-line summary, written on your Mac.

Per-app control, and quiet during a Focus
Nothing is sent anywhere

03 / SHELF Drop it. Zip it. Ask it. Park files on the notch, drag them out into any app, zip them, or run on-device actions: summarize, extract text, remove a background, transcribe, translate.

Ask a question about a PDF, picture, audio or video
Links only. Your files are never copied, moved or deleted

04 / BASKET Shake. Drop. Shake the mouse while dragging files and a basket appears under the pointer. Drop as many as you like, then zip them or hand them to the shelf.

Keeps its own list, or shares the shelf
Hides itself a few seconds after the last drop

05 / PLAYER Whatever's playing, one glance away. Music, podcasts, audiobooks, video. Any app. A seek bar that actually seeks, so a missed word is one click back. Pull the player off the notch and it floats above your windows.

Cover glow, scrolling titles, edge snapping
Reads the system now-playing, so it just works

06 / THE SMALL STUFF Little tools, done right. A quiet volume and brightness bar, power alerts, a Caffeine switch that keeps the Mac awake, and a button that hides desktop files for clean screen recordings.

All of them live beside the notch, never in the way
Clean desktop restarts Finder for about a second

✱

Claude CodeNotch+

Changes things0:01

Run a command

Runs a command to save changes and share them.

$ git add -A && git commit -m "Add live status" && git push

Deny ⌥⌘NAlways ⌥⌘AAllow ⌥⌘Y

Allowed

MESSAGES · nowNeeds you

Mum

Are you coming for dinner tonight? Need to know by 5 please, I am cooking for everyone and still need to buy more.

nowlaternoise

Shelf 0

Drag 3ZipSummarizeAsk

Archive.zip saved next to notes.txt

0 in the basketBasket onlyTo shelfSelect all

ZipSummarizeMore

Player

PODCASTS Chapter 11 The Last Wish Audiobook

7:27

-8:24

Volume

ON-DEVICE

Apple Intelligence runs on your Mac. Nothing is sent anywhere.

LOCAL ONLY

The Claude Code hook listens on 127.0.0.1 with a secret token in an owner-only file.

LINKS, NEVER COPIES

The shelf keeps links. Your files are never moved, changed or deleted.

INSTALL

Build it in a minute.

# needs Xcode, a Mac with Apple silicon, macOS 26 or later
git clone https://github.com/Nurik-dz/notch-plus.git
cd notch-plus
./build.sh
open Notch+.app

Then open Settings and Connect Claude Code (you see the exact change first, and a backup is saved). Give Notch+ Full Disk Access to read notifications.

FEEDBACK

Using it?
Tell me what's missing.

Notch+ is young and your feedback shapes it. A screenshot or a short screen recording helps a lot.

Suggest an idea Report a bug

Run a command

A few things. Done perfectly.

Run a command

Build it in a minute.

Using it?Tell me what's missing.

Using it?
Tell me what's missing.