NotchPal
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Your Claude Code sessions, living in the notch.

A small animated hexagon beside your MacBook's camera shows whether Claude is thinking, working or waiting on you. Click it to jump straight to the session.

Download for Mac

v0.3.6 · 1.8 MB · Universal · macOS 13 or later

Every state reads at a glance, out of the corner of your eye.

Each Claude Code event changes the hexagon's colour and motion. When a turn finishes it draws a check, then poofs away.

Saying hiA session starts
ThinkingYou send a prompt
Reading filesRead, Grep, Glob, Web
WorkingAny other tool
Needs approvalA permission request
Waiting for youClaude asks a question
Hit an errorA tool or turn fails
DoneThe turn finishes
AsleepQuiet for 10 minutes

Built to stay out of the way until you're needed.

Click to jump to the session

The hexagon knows where each session runs. One click brings that window forward: Terminal, iTerm, VS Code, Cursor or the Claude app.

TerminaliTermVS CodeCursorClaude
Three sessions. The one that needs you takes the slot, and the count turns amber if another is waiting too.

Plan usage, by the notch

What's left of your session and week, the same numbers as /usage. Amber at 25%, red at 10%.

Never slows Claude down

Hooks post to 127.0.0.1. If NotchPal isn't running they fail instantly and silently.

Private by design

Everything stays on your Mac. The usage readout borrows Claude Code's own login to ask Anthropic for your plan numbers, and never stores or refreshes the token.

Drive it from anything

Any script can set a hexagon's state with one request.

curl -d '{"session_id":"build","state":"working"}' \
  http://127.0.0.1:47821/hook

Step away. Claude can still reach you.

The NotchPal Android app follows every session on your Mac over your Wi‑Fi, lets you answer when one needs you, and keeps Claude going while you’re away.

  • Allow or deny from anywherePermission requests show the command or file, with Allow, Deny and Always allow. The same buttons sit right on the notification.
  • Send the next promptType a message to a running session and Claude picks it up the moment its turn ends. Or start a new session in any of your projects.
  • Every session, by its taskSee what each session is working on and doing right now. Get alerts for questions, errors, finished turns and a low plan.
  • Pairs with one scanTurn on Connect phone over Wi‑Fi in the menu, scan the QR code, done. Nothing leaves your network.
Get it on Google Play

Free. Android 10 or later. Needs NotchPal 0.3 on your Mac, or 0.3.4 to send prompts.

Up and running in a minute.

Requires macOS 13 or later. One universal build for Apple silicon and Intel.

Download for Mac
  1. 1

    Download and drag to Applications

    Open the disk image and drag NotchPal into your Applications folder.

  2. 2

    Allow the first launch

    The build isn't notarized, so macOS blocks it once. Open System Settings, Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway. Or run:

  3. 3

    Connect to Claude Code

    From the hexagon in the menu bar, choose Connect to Claude Code, then turn on Open at login. Start claude and send a prompt.

Stop checking the terminal.

Let the notch tell you when Claude needs you.

Download for Mac

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