Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Whirr
Ambient agent activity in your notch
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.
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AgentNotch▲120Real-time AI coding assistant telemetry in your Mac's notch
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ara▲143Agentic Wispr flow computer-use-agent living in your notch
May 2026 · ara.so · its alternatives →
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The invisible teleprompter that lives in your MacBook Notch.
Feb 2026 · notch.aliarain.com · its alternatives →
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Notchware▲83Music and AI agent alerts in your MacBook notch
25d ago · ballmac.com · its alternatives →
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relaydfree tier, from $5/mo▲101I kept missing when my Codex agents finished, so I built relayd — a mobile dashboard that sends push notifications and lets me continue agents from my phone. Free tier available. Would love feedback.
Jan 2026 · relayd.dev · its alternatives →
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NotchNest AI▲99AI powered by Apple Intelligence now in your Notch
Apr 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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CrewTower▲100Talk to Claude Code right from your MacBook notch
Aug 2026 · crewtower.app · its alternatives →
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Halo▲71Notifications, dictation and AI agents in your Mac's notch
13d ago · halo-mac.com · its alternatives →
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Viberia▲146Hey HN, This is my take on the agent harness. Everything on an isometric map. Agents are grouped into "buildings" that run in a sequence or a loop; e.g., the CodeForge has an agent that writes a PRD, another one that implements, and a third that reviews. Everything is customizable, you build your own buildings/teams however you want. It's a Tauri app, really light (about 8x less energy than the closest competitor I benchmarked, so it actually runs from a coffee shop on battery). It's macOS only for now, but ping me if you are willing to test the Windows or Linux version. I've been…
May 2026 · getviberia.com · its alternatives →
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Workser▲4Hi Hacker News ! Today I have new product waitlist that will launch soon next week. Workser is Coding AI Agent API for Developers to integrate into your product to deliver vibe coding for your business use cases. You can custom branding with prebuilt UI to make it your own vibe coding ai agent. Started with Custom web app by ai agent. But soon with more types of software development. Tell me how you think or join waitlist when we launch next week.
Mar 2026 · workser.ai · its alternatives →
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Hopper▲100Hi HN, we’re Sai and Aayush, and we’re building Hypercubic (https://www.hypercubic.ai/), bringing AI tools to the mainframe and COBOL world. (We did a Launch HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45877517.) Today we’re launching Hopper, an agentic development environment for mainframes. You can download it here: https://www.hypercubic.ai/hopper, and you can also request access and immediately get a mainframe user account to play with. There's also a video runthrough at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q81L5DcfBvE.…
May 2026 · hypercubic.ai · its alternatives →
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TrackNotch▲98LLM usage tracking that lives in your Mac's notch
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've been building computer-use tools for a while, and I quietly launched this about a month ago (122 Stars on GH). I figured it was worth sharing here. Over the last few months, a lot of computer-use agents have come out: Codex, Claude Code, CUA, and others. Most of them seem to work roughly like this: 1. Take a screenshot 2. Have the model predict pixel coordinates 3. Click x,y 4. Take another screenshot 5. Repeat That works, but it's slow, expensive in tokens, and fragile. If the UI shifts a few pixels, things break. And the model still doesn't know what any element actually is. But the…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MarkdownMate▲32Vibe Coding? Stop your AI Agent from guessing.
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Control 13 AI coding agents from your MacBook notch & iPhone
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I run a few Claude Code sessions in parallel and kept cmd-tabbing around just to find out one of them had been sitting on a permission prompt for ten minutes. There's a hardware gadget I liked (called SidePulse.io) so before waiting to get my shipment I built the software version instead :D I hope you like it and find it useful as I do!
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Your AI agents, living next to the MacBook notch.
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AgentWatchfree tier, from $4.99/mo▲3Monitor and control AI coding agents from your phone
Jun 2026 · agentwatch.jocoding.io · its alternatives →
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