Notchware

Music and AI agent alerts in your MacBook notch

The overview

What is Notchware?

Notchware turns the MacBook notch area into a live display for music controls and system indicators such as battery, volume, brightness, Focus and Wi-Fi. Its optional Pro upgrade adds alerts when Codex, Claude Code or Cursor needs approval or finishes a task. The app runs locally and does not require an account or cloud service.

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What people are saying

Public experiences, questions, and discussions.

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I’m building a small software studio around Mac apps — 3 apps shipped so far

that notchware idea is clever, i always forget the notch is just dead space up there

Inside the toolkit

Key features

Show live status in the MacBook notch

Display media playback, battery, volume, brightness, Focus and network status in a live island around the notch.

Control supported media playback

Show artwork and an equalizer, with playback controls for Spotify, Apple Music and other media sources.

Get local coding-agent alerts

Pro can show Codex, Claude Code and Cursor approval requests or task completion in the notch.

Choose which indicators appear

Select display, island width and the indicators shown; settings include hiding the island in fullscreen apps.

Where it fits

Use cases

Check Mac status without opening another appSee battery, volume, brightness, Focus and network changes in the notch.
Notice when a coding agent needs attentionReceive an alert when Codex, Claude Code or Cursor requests approval or finishes a task.
Control music from the Lock ScreenUse Pro Lock Screen controls for supported music playback.

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