MacNotch - Turn your MacBook notch into a Productivity Hub.
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MacNotch turns your MacBook notch into a modular productivity hub: weather, media, calendar, tasks, notes, Pomodoro, notifications, Bluetooth, system stats, translation, shortcuts, reminders, quotes, Screen Time, AI Coding for Claude Code (beta), and GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket PRs; all at a glance where you already look. Drag files onto the notch to AirDrop, zip, convert, or send to iCloud. Native Swift, lightweight, and built for macOS.
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Quick update: MacNotch v1.8.6 is out 🚀
A lot has landed since the 1.8.0 post (Quick Toggles, Screen Clean, App Help, layout, Git in the notch, drag and drop) and since 1.8.3 (Screen Time, Live Activities, collapsible Settings, and the Dashboard “What’s New” spotlight). This release pushes the notch further into notifications, coding, and hosting workflows. Here’s what you get now:
Notifications in the notch. See alerts from all your apps in one strip: dismiss, open detail, reply where macOS allows, group by time or by app, and filter to a single sender. Optional taller layout when you want a bigger list. Turn it on under Settings → Notifications; the pane walks you through setup. Optional behavior to clear dismissals from Notification Center too when you want macOS to stay in sync.
AI Coding (Beta) for Claude Code. Monitor sessions from the notch, refresh the list, open a session for detail (including token usage), and use Allow / Deny when the terminal is waiting. Still beta, still polishing. Enable under Settings → AI Coding (Beta) (Modules in the sidebar). You need Claude Code installed for real session data.
Code hosting: Bitbucket. Bitbucket Cloud pull requests sit next to GitHub and GitLab. Connect under Settings → Code hosting (app password, workspace, username).
Bluetooth. Smarter icons and types for more gear: Apple Watch, speakers and soundbars, barcode-style peripherals, with class/name hints so labels stay honest (including not mistaking earbuds for big speakers).
Never Sleep. Optional Persist Never Sleep at the bottom of Settings → Dashboard → Quick Toggles brings Never Sleep back after a restart if you had it on. Off by default.
“What’s New” again. After updating, the in-notch spotlight can call out Bitbucket, AI Coding (Beta), and Notifications & reply so the big additions are easy to find.
Requirements. macOS 14 or later.
All of this is aimed at making the notch useful for alerts, terminal coding, and review queues without living in a pile of windows and keeping MacNotch nicer to live with every day.
Quick update: MacNotch v1.8.6.2 is out 🚀
Since the 1.8.3 post, a lot has shipped (window snap, collapsed notch sizing across displays, Dashboard polish, and more). 1.8.6 already brought Notifications, AI Coding with Claude Code, Bitbucket in Code hosting, and stronger Bluetooth. 1.8.6.2 is the follow-up that makes those features feel finished and day-to-day nicer. Here’s the short version:
AI Coding. Claude Code and Cursor Agent in one notch view: filter sessions, open richer detail, optional Hook stream for faster live updates from your own tooling. Dial it in under Settings → AI Coding.
Notifications. Cleaner list and detail, quicker replies, and one-tap actions on interactive alerts when they appear, so you spend less time in Notification Center.
Bluetooth. Smarter typing for more headphones and accessories, better handling when a device only shows up as an active Bluetooth link, and clearer trackpad vs mouse icons when the system gives enough signal.
Notch & General. Smoother expand, collapse, and multi-display behavior. New Collapsed Notch Size Scale if the collapsed strip ever crowds the menu bar, plus an option so choosing a module in the Settings sidebar can preview it in the notch. Path: Settings → General.
Everywhere else. Small but felt improvements in Calendar, Todo, Translation, the Clipboard shelf, and Window Snap, plus refreshed in-app help on the site so answers stay current.
Goal is the same as always: MacNotch stays out of your way until you need it, then gives you the right controls in the right place. If you’re on an older build, this is a good one to jump to.