Music, your clipboard, system stats and Claude Code, tucked around the camera of your MacBook. And a tiny robot to keep them company.
Inside the notch
Each page of the notch is a module. These are the four a fresh install starts with.
01Music
Cover, title, a progress bar you can scrub, play, pause and skip. Music, Spotify, podcasts, a video in the browser: anything that reports to the system. A halo picks up the cover's color.
02Clipboard
A searchable list drops from the notch. Colors show as swatches, code in its colors, links with a preview, images and files as thumbnails. Pick one and it's pasted right where you were.
03System
CPU, GPU, memory, network, storage and battery, each with its last minute as a chart. Read with public APIs, and only sampled while the page is on screen.
04Claude Code
Claude's star twinkles in the notch while a session works. When it needs you, a raised hand stays there: deny, allow once or always, without going back to the terminal.
And the rest
Focus sessions of 25/5 or 50/10, or a stopwatch. The time in LED dots, like an old display. Pixel puts on a headband and focuses with you.
Write it the way you'd say it. The date, time and repeat fill themselves in.
What should I remind you of?
The first line is the title. Saved as you type, in three layouts: one sheet, a list, or Post-its.
Groceries
Talk ideas
Wi-Fi at the café
Every page is a module. Plug in the ones you want, in the order you want, from Pixel's workshop.
Try the keys: they light up here too.
PNotch draws one. Same panel, same gestures, on any display.
Pixel is keeping an eye on things.
Meet Pixel
It dances to your music, sweats when the CPU runs hot, dozes off late at night, reads your copies and calls you when Claude needs you. Its eyes follow your pointer. Click it: it loves that.
Privacy
No account, no analytics. PNotch reads what your Mac already knows and keeps it there. It only goes online to check for updates and to preview the links you copy.
$ ls ~/Library/Application\ Support/com.pnotch.PNotch history.json Images/ notes.json $ ls ~/.claude/hooks pnotch.sh
Your clipboard lives in ~/Library/Application Support. Nowhere else.
Anything a password manager flags as confidential is never recorded.
The hook talks to PNotch through a Unix socket only your account can open. Your settings.json is backed up first.
By Apple. It opens without warnings and updates itself with Sparkle.
Metrics are read only while their page is on screen. The timer sleeps until the countdown ends.
FAQ
Yes. On a display without a notch, PNotch draws one at the top center, and everything works the same.
Download PNotch, drag it to Applications, hover your notch.
macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · Signed & notarized
