Notch So Good for MAC

Notch So Good turns the notch of your MacBook into a small status display for AI coding agents. While Claude Code or the OpenAI Codex CLI works, a black pill extends the notch: a 3D character called Peek sits on the left, and a ring on the right shows how much of your 5-hour usage window is left. The more a session needs you, the further Peek climbs out. When a task finishes, fails or runs into a usage limit, the notch opens into a card that says what happened and in which project, and a click jumps to the exact terminal tab, tmux pane included.

Notch So Good is made by Deepak Maurya and is free and open source under the MIT license. It works through the hook systems of Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI (Gemini support is in beta and only watches). When Claude Code would ask for permission, the notch shows the full command or the file change and offers Allow, Deny or This session; it never approves anything you did not click, and if you leave a card alone Claude asks in the terminal as usual. Version 4.11.1 stops background helper jobs from announcing they are finished and shows an agent's last message as plain words. The app needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later and is a universal app for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. A Mac with a notch works best; on other Macs the pill appears as a rounded island below the menu bar.

The app is not notarized by Apple; its installers clear the download flag for you. It sends optional, anonymous usage counts, which you can turn off in Settings, About. You need Claude Code, the Codex CLI or Gemini CLI for it to have anything to show.

Key Features

Notch So Good keeps your AI coding sessions in view without a window.

• Peek in the notch: A live 3D character that shows whether an agent is working, waiting or done.
• Usage ring: Shows how much of your 5-hour window is left, with heads-ups at 80% and 95%.
• Approvals in the notch: Allow, Deny or allow for this session, with the full command or a red and green diff.
• Questions and plans: Pick Claude's options as buttons, type your own answer, or approve a plan.
• Reply from the card: When Claude finishes, type your next message on the card and it carries on.
• Every session in one place: Each agent gets its own colour, plan progress and a warning when two edit the same file.
• Keyboard shortcuts: Control and Option plus a letter or number to allow, deny, reply or pick an option.
• Light on resources: No Dock icon and no window, and it can hide from screen sharing.

Notch So Good 4.11.1 makes finished notices quieter and easier to read.

• When Claude Code hands a job to Codex or Gemini in the background, you hear about it once, when Claude itself is done.
• A finished card shows an agent's last message as plain words, without markdown links, bold text or file path formatting.