Flick puts a pet in your MacBook notch. It watches your Claude Code sessions, reacts to what you're doing, and you can talk to it. It also handles tool approvals, tracks your usage, and replaces your system HUD — all from the notch.
Chat with your buddy through any LLM provider — OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, or local models (Ollama, LM Studio). Each of the 18 species has a unique personality. Your dragon is sassy. Your capybara is chill. Your ghost is spooky but friendly. Conversations stream in real-time.
Tap your buddy for a happy animation. Rapid-tap for excited reactions with hearts. It knows when you're paying attention.
Your buddy earns XP from your coding sessions — tool approvals, messages, petting. It levels up over time. An affection system tracks your bond from "Stranger" to "Soulmate". Tap the buddy's name to see the full stats card with lifetime counters.
Add your own personality traits in Settings. Want your duck to be obsessed with semicolons? Your robot to speak in haiku? Write it in and it becomes part of who they are.
Flick includes security improvements over the upstream project — hook integrity verification, socket authentication, scoped permissions, and structured logging with privacy annotations.
The notch stays visible even over fullscreen apps. No hiding, no disappearing.
- Live session monitoring — Track multiple concurrent Claude Code sessions
- Permission approvals — Approve or deny tool executions from the notch
- Chat interface — View conversation history with markdown rendering
- Usage tracking — Session and weekly API utilization at a glance
- Multiplexer support — Works with cmux and tmux sessions
- Auto-setup — Hooks install automatically on first launch
| Provider | Default Model | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | gpt-5-nano | Responses API, streaming |
| Anthropic | claude-sonnet-4-6 | Messages API |
| Grok (xAI) | grok-3-mini-fast | Chat Completions |
| Local | default | localhost:1234, Ollama/LM Studio |
- Music player with album art and visualizer
- Calendar events at a glance
- Battery status and charging indicator
- Custom volume and brightness HUD
- Drag-and-drop file shelf
- Webcam mirror
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
duck, goose, blob, cat, dragon, octopus, owl, penguin, turtle, snail, ghost, axolotl, capybara, cactus, robot, rabbit, mushroom, chonk — each with unique ASCII art, animations, and chat personality. Customize eyes, hats, rarity, and name.
git clone https://github.com/JOSH1059/Flick.git
cd Flick
open buddi.xcodeprojRequires Xcode. Set your signing team in Signing & Capabilities for both the buddi and BuddiXPCHelper targets, then Cmd+R.
Requirements: macOS 15.0+, MacBook with notch (or external display), Claude Code installed.
Claude Code → Hooks → Unix Socket → Flick → Notch UI
Flick registers hooks with Claude Code on launch. When Claude emits events — tool use, session start/end, permission requests — the hooks forward them over a Unix domain socket. The app maps events to buddy animations and UI state.
Flick is a fork of Buddi by TalkValue, which was built on boring.notch by TheBoredTeam and Claude Island by farouqaldori. See NOTICE for full attribution.