A macOS menu bar app that puts Claude Code right in your MacBook's notch. Hover over the notch or click the menu bar icon to open a floating terminal panel with embedded sessions that automatically detect your open Xcode projects.
This is a community-maintained continuation of adamlyttleapps/notchy, which is no longer being updated by the original author. Huge thanks to Adam Lyttle for creating the project and open-sourcing it — this fork exists only to keep it alive and ship small fixes/improvements on top.
- Notch integration — hover over the MacBook notch to reveal the terminal panel
- Xcode project detection — automatically discovers open Xcode projects and
cds into them - Multi-session tabs — run multiple Claude Code sessions side by side
- Live status in the notch — animated pill shows whether Claude is working, waiting, or done
- Git checkpoints — Cmd+S to snapshot your project before Claude makes changes
- macOS 15.6+
- MacBook with a notch (for notch features; menu bar still works without one)
Grab the latest signed, notarized build from the Releases page:
Notchy-x.y.z.dmg— drag-and-drop installer (recommended)Notchy-x.y.z.zip— just the.appif you prefer to copy it into/Applicationsyourself
The build is signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS opens it without Gatekeeper warnings.
Open Notchy.xcodeproj in Xcode and build (Cmd+B), or from the command line:
xcodebuild -project Notchy.xcodeproj -scheme Notchy -configuration Debug build- SwiftTerm — terminal emulator view (via Swift Package Manager)
- Original project by Adam Lyttle — adamlyttleapps/notchy
- This fork is maintained by @bones7456