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Quiet by default
Configurable system sounds for permission and completion events — or mute it entirely. English and 简体中文 built in.
v0.1.2 · Free & open source
Your notch,
finally doing something.
NotchTune turns your Mac's notch into a live control surface for your music and your terminal AI agents — playback, approvals, questions, and one-tap jump-back to the right session. Native. Local-first. Liquid glass.
Claude Code
Codex
Gemini CLI
Kimi CLI
OpenCode
Factory
Qwen
Spotify
Apple Music
It switches itself.
Music when you're listening. Agents when they're working. A prompt the moment one needs you. The island morphs to whatever matters now — you never go looking.
♫ Now playing
Agents working
Needs you
One island. Every moment that matters.
NotchTune switches itself between music and agents, so the notch always shows the thing you need right now.
Music
Full playback, right in the glass.
Control Spotify or Apple Music without leaving your work — artwork, scrubbable progress, shuffle, repeat, love, and volume, all inside a liquid-glass panel that lives where your eyes already are.
Agents
Every state, at a glance.
Watch your terminal-native coding agents live. The status dot tells you exactly where each one is — before you've even switched windows.
Working
Waiting on you
Done
Approvals & questions
Say yes without breaking flow.
When an agent needs permission or has a question, the island grows into a notification panel right under the notch. Approve, deny, or answer in place — then it round-trips straight back to the process that asked.
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Jump back to the right window
One click returns focus to the exact terminal — Ghostty, iTerm2, WezTerm, tmux, Terminal.app, cmux, and more.
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Notch or no notch
A real notch surface on MacBooks, and a clean top-center bar on external and non-notch displays. Same glass, anywhere.
Pick your island buddy.
A tiny pixel companion bounces out of the notch while it idles — and jumps when a session needs you. Choose the one that fits your setup.
Dino
The original. Sprints across your notch, tail high.
Ghost
Cool and quiet — drifts gently while things are calm.
Crab
Sidesteps along the island, claws clacking.
Duck
Paddles past; flaps a wing when an agent moves.
Claude
A little friend for the Claude Code crowd.
Tune the glass.
NotchTune's liquid glass is yours to shape. Drag the controls — the island reacts live, right here on the page.
live preview
Settings → Appearance → Liquid Glass
Render the island with Apple's Liquid Glass material instead of solid black.
Material
Transparent, light-bending glass — the most “liquid” look.
Tint color
Tint strength22%
Most notch apps pick a lane. We didn't.
Music-only widgets, AI-only monitors, plain utilities with flat gray boxes — they each leave something on the table.
| Feature |  NotchTune |
Music-only notch widgets |
AI-only agent monitors |
Plain notch utilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music playback & artwork | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Live AI agent monitoring | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Approvals & questions in the notch | ✓ | ✕ | partial | ✕ |
| Liquid glass interface | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Characters & personalization | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | themes |
| Local-first · no telemetry | ✓ | varies | varies | ✓ |
| Open source · free | ✓ | $$ | $$ | some |
Music and agents in one surface, every state covered, wrapped in glass — and it doesn't cost you anything.
Get NotchTune
Download the latest .dmg, drag it into Applications, and your notch starts earning its keep.
Unsigned for now: if macOS blocks the first launch, right-click NotchTune.app → Open. macOS 14+.