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Notchware is a native macOS app that turns the MacBook notch into a live island for Now Playing controls, battery, volume, brightness, Focus, Wi-Fi, and internet-status indicators. Its Pro edition adds local alerts for Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor when an agent needs approval or finishes a task, with optional sounds, plus Lock Screen music controls and profile hiding. It runs locally without an account, analytics service, or cloud backend; its agent integrations use inspectable local hook commands that write status events without reading prompts or responses. Notchware supports macOS 14.6 and later on Apple silicon and Intel, with a free edition and a one-time $3.99 Pro purchase.

Coucou is an open-source desktop companion for Claude Code and other coding-agent sessions, appearing in the macOS notch or as a top-of-screen island on Windows. It displays session events such as files read, edits, and commands run; surfaces Claude Code permission requests for Allow/Deny approval; opens the relevant terminal on macOS; provides built-in Claude chat; and accepts dropped files as context. It can also attach a macOS window as Claude context and display optional integration pills for services including GitHub, Vercel, Notion, and others. On macOS, a hook script forwards Claude Code events over a Unix socket and waits for approval responses, while a borderless NSPanel and a SwiftUI Canvas render the animated Mochi character. The native Swift 6, SwiftUI, and AppKit application has no third-party dependencies. On Windows, a Tauri 2 application uses Rust, TypeScript, a transparent always-on-top window, Canvas 2D rendering, and a named pipe for hook events. The project states that it collects no telemetry, requires no account, and stores credentials in the macOS Keychain or Windows Credential Manager. Coucou is distributed from the project's releases and can also be built from source. The code is licensed under MIT; the Mochi name, character, icon, sounds, and media are separately reserved by the author. The Windows installer is temporarily unavailable according to the README because its unsigned build was flagged by Microsoft Defender.

Codenotch is a macOS app that pins a small notch to a screen edge and displays usage limits, reset windows, and activity states for coding assistants including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Antigravity, and GLM. It can show whether a provider is working, finished, or waiting for user input, with separate rings for separate Claude Code profiles and live session details on hover. Each provider adapter reads credentials, sessions, logs, databases, language-server RPCs, or provider endpoints already used by the corresponding local tool; Codenotch does not sign in to services itself. A UsageStore polls the adapters, preserves the last good reading across launches, labels each reading by fidelity, and exposes failures as statuses such as stale, needsAuth, or error rather than inventing a percentage. The notch can be placed on any screen edge, expands when approached, and can be configured to show or hide its Dock and menu-bar icons. The app is written for macOS, supports a demo mode with fixed sample data, and uses Sparkle for signed background updates. Its README notes that the provider interfaces may change because some readings come from internal endpoints or local application state. The project is licensed under the MIT License.

Headroom is a local-first macOS menu-bar app for monitoring AI coding quotas and software delivery status, with optional iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and ESP32 desk-display clients. A Python host running on the Mac reads the authentication data and command-line tools already configured for services such as Claude, Codex, Cursor, GitHub, and Vercel, then serves a single local JSON feed; credentials remain on the machine and no Headroom cloud account is required. Its interfaces show provider quota meters, usage rings, burn rate and spend, failed Actions, deployments, monitors, and other attention items, and the iPhone client can approve, deny, or reply to Claude and Codex requests without starting work. The Mac host uses port 8737, requires macOS 14+ and Python 3.9+, and the optional desk display uses a Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-1.8 board.

Codeman is a self-hosted web dashboard for running and monitoring AI coding agents. It launches Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini, Pi, or Grok in persistent tmux sessions, with an optional plain shell, and streams their terminals to a browser. Sessions persist across restarts and network drops; idle detection can re-prompt agents, resume them after usage limits reset, and run scheduled jobs, while live floating windows show background agents and subagents. The dashboard is designed for touch devices and includes local echo, QR login, swipe navigation, and push notifications. It can run locally, in Docker, or over SSH, is MIT licensed, runs on the user's machine by default, and states that it has no telemetry.