01 / Live
Agents you can watch
Every Claude Code session gets its own lane — the task it's on, live progress, and a clear ✓ or ✗ when it lands. Run two at once and you see both.
NotchPulse — a precision instrument for macOS
The dark strip around your camera has done nothing for years. NotchPulse turns it into a living readout — watch your AI agents work, glance at what matters, and ask Claude without leaving the screen.
macOS 14+ · ~6 MB · no account · open it from the menu bar
menu bar
Dashboard
Clock
2:08
Fri · 27 Jun
Agent · 2 live
Editing ActivityStore
CC #a1b2
pytest · running
CC #9f3c
System
A day in the notch
NotchPulse
Clock
7:30
Tuesday · clear, 21°
Up next
Standup
9:00 · 15 min · Meet
then: 1:1 with Priya · 11:30
Agent · 2 running
Refactor ActivityStore
pytest · 38 passing
Throughput
2 agents · 0 stuck
Pomodoro
4:32
Break
2 done today
Reminder
Stretch & hydrate 💧
back to focus in 4:32
Now playing
Nightcall
Kavinsky
Battery
38%
unplugged · ~2h left
7:30 AM
Morning. Your day and your next meeting, before you've even opened a thing.
11:00 AM
Deep work. Two agents racing — you watch both finish without breaking flow.
2:00 PM
A break. The notch nudges you to breathe before the next sprint.
7:00 PM
Winding down. Whatever's playing, right where your eyes already are.
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Try it here
Take the notch for a spin.
No install needed — flip between states and poke at it.
your menu bar — try the controls below
Agent · live
Editing ActivityStore.swift
Running tests · pytest
Looking for your Mac…
A website that talks to your notch.
Once NotchPulse is running, this very button makes your real notch react — a marketing page that controls the app you installed. Download it, then come back.
On your Mac
It lives where you already look.
NotchPulseFileEditView
2:08
Dashboard
Clock
2:08
Agent
running
editing ActivityStore
Sys
🧭💬🎵📷🗒️📅✦⚙️
Everything you keep glancing at, in one quiet strip.
02 / Ask
Claude, in the strip
Type a question or summarize your clipboard and get an answer in place — powered by your own Claude. No tab, no second login.
03 / Glance
The essentials, always up
A clock, a battery ring, live CPU and memory traces, and now-playing with album art — where your eyes already are.
04 / Reach
Every window, one move
Jump to any open window across every Space and display from one place.
05 / Studio
Read, record, focus
A teleprompter you read straight down the lens, a live camera mirror, and a Pomodoro timer with a quiet chime.
06 / Yours
Built to your shape
Compose your own pages, drag widgets into order, pick an accent, switch on frosted glass.
Everything in the box.
Agents & AI
◎
Live agent lanes
Each Claude Code session as its own lane with live progress.
🏁
Agent Race
Run several agents and watch them race to the finish, ranked live.
⏱
ETA
A running estimate of how long the current task has left.
💲
Tokens & cost
Live token count and running cost across your agents.
✅
Approve from the notch
Pause risky commands and tap Approve / Deny right on the notch.
✨
Ask Claude
Ask or summarize the clipboard in place, with your own Claude.
🎯
Click-to-focus
Jump straight back to the terminal or editor that owns a task.
📋
Completion summary
Files touched, +/- diff, and tests passed when an agent finishes.
Productivity & daily rhythm
🕘
Clock
Time and date at a glance.
📅
Calendar
A full month grid plus your next events.
🎥
One-tap meeting join
Zoom / Meet / Teams links become a Join button that pulses when it's time.
✔︎
To-Do
A quick checklist that lives in the notch.
📝
Notes
A scratchpad for quick thoughts, always at hand.
🍅
Pomodoro
A focus timer with work / break cycles and a quiet chime.
🌅
Day Progress
How much of your workday has elapsed.
⌨️
Shortcuts
An editable keyboard-shortcut cheat sheet.
📎
Clipboard history
Recent copied text — click to re-copy.
Notch & system
🔋
Battery
Charge level, charging state, and a ring gauge.
📈
System Monitor
Live CPU and memory traces.
🔵
Bluetooth
Your paired devices and what's connected.
▦
Window Snap
Snap the focused window to halves, full, or center.
🪟
Open windows
Jump to any window across every Space and display.
🗂
Open apps
Everything you have open — click to focus.
🎵
Now playing
Album art, scrubber, and a live visualizer.
🎬
Teleprompter
Read a script straight down the lens.
📷
Camera mirror
A quick live camera preview.
🪣
Shelf
Drag files onto the notch to stash them.
Make it yours
🎨
Pages & widgets
Compose your own pages and drag widgets into order.
🌈
Accent colors
Tint the whole notch in your color.
🧊
Frosted glass
Switch the expanded panel to translucent glass.
🔔
Finish sound & speech
Hear a chime — or have it spoken — when an agent lands.
⌨︎
Global shortcut
Open settings from anywhere with ⌥⌘N.
🔌
Open event API
Any tool — CI, scripts, editors — can POST to show a live activity.
Setup
It sits silent — until your tools have something to say.
01
Download & open
A tiny menu-bar app — no Dock icon, no account. Right-click → Open the first time.
02
Connect Claude Code
Add one hook line. Every session you run lights up the notch, automatically.
03
Wire up anything
Builds, CI, scripts — anything that can POST to a local port shows as a live activity.
The pitch
It’s free. My wishlist isn’t.
NotchPulse costs you nothing — download it, keep it forever, get every update. But if it saved you a glance (or your sanity), here’s my completely reasonable list of things you could get me. No pressure. I’ll just be refreshing my bank app.
Secure payments via Razorpay · India & international · UPI, cards & more · seriously, the app is free
Questions
Good to know.
Yes — download it, keep it forever, get every update. If it earns a place in your menu bar, you can buy me a coffee. No subscription, no account, no catch.
Shape the roadmap
Got an idea, a bug, or a request?
NotchPulse is built around your feedback. Email me a question, a recommendation, or a feature you want next — I read every message and future updates follow what you send.