Approve Claude Code without leaving your work.
ClaudeNotch puts every Claude Code permission prompt, question, and notification right in the notch. Read the diff, allow or deny with one key, and stay in your editor.
Free for personal use · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon and Intel
See it in action
One click, and you're back to work
Claude Code asks, the notch answers — approve, deny, or read the diff without ever leaving your editor.
Features
Everything Claude needs, up in the notch
ClaudeNotch mirrors the prompts Claude Code shows in your terminal, then lets you handle them without breaking focus.
Permissions in the notch
When Claude wants to run a command or edit a file, the notch unfurls with Allow, Deny, and Always-Allow. Resolve it and your keyboard jumps straight back to the terminal.
See the diff first
Edit and Write requests show a red and green diff right inside the card, so you know exactly what is about to change.
Guardrails for risky commands
Dangerous commands like rm -rf, sudo, and force-push get a red warning and a press-and-hold button, so nothing irreversible slips through by accident.
Answer Claude's questions
AskUserQuestion prompts arrive as tappable options. Pick one and Claude keeps going.
Send a message from anywhere
Press ⌥⌘N to open a quick composer. Send a note to your running session, or start a fresh one in a recent project.
Activity history
Click the notch for a timeline of everything you have allowed, denied, or answered.
Smart always-allow
Approve a tool for the whole session, or just one exact command. Your rules stick around between launches.
Start Claude in any folder
Launch Claude Code in any project from the menu bar, or jump back into a recent one.
How it works
Up and running in three steps
Install and run setup
Open the app and click through the one-click setup. It grants accessibility and input permissions, then wires ClaudeNotch into Claude Code's hooks.
Run Claude Code
Start a session in any terminal, exactly like you always do. No flags, no wrappers, nothing new to learn.
Respond in the notch
Prompts appear up top. Press Enter to allow, Esc to deny, and keep working without switching windows.
Install
Get set up in under two minutes
Works on notched MacBooks and ordinary Macs alike. On a Mac without a notch it draws a Dynamic-Island-style pill instead.
- 1
Download ClaudeNotch.dmg
Grab the latest release. The link always points to the newest build.
- 2
Drag it to Applications
Open the disk image and drag ClaudeNotch into your Applications folder.
- 3
Right-click, then Open
The app is source-available and ad-hoc signed, so macOS asks once. Still blocked? Open System Settings, go to Privacy and Security, and choose Open Anyway.
- 4
Run the Setup window
It walks you through Accessibility and Input Monitoring, then installs the Claude Code hooks. It backs up your ~/.claude/settings.json first.
- 5
Start coding
Launch a Claude Code session in your terminal. Prompts now appear in the notch.
Requirements
- macOS 13 (Ventura) or later
- Apple Silicon or Intel
- Claude Code CLI installed
- jq recommended (brew install jq) for the live activity line
Works with Claude Code in any terminal, including the one inside VS Code. The Claude Code VS Code extension panel does not fire hooks yet, so use the CLI there.
Download ClaudeNotchOr install with Homebrew
brew tap rawsun007/claudenotch https://github.com/rawsun007/claude-notch brew install --cask claudenotch
Click to copy. Run both lines — the tap step comes before install.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Yes — free for personal and any noncommercial use, and the full source lives on GitHub. Commercial use needs permission first — just ask the author.
Built by
Roshan Ramani
Indie developer building small tools that make Claude Code feel at home on the Mac. ClaudeNotch is one of them. Say hi or follow along.
Stop alt-tabbing to your terminal.
Keep Claude Code flowing and approve everything from the notch. Free for personal use, and ready for your Mac.
Free for personal use · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon and Intel