I turned my MacBook notch into a live Claude Code dashboard
A live companion for Claude Code that lives in your MacBook notch. Reacts to what Claude is doing, intercepts permission prompts, and shows all your running sessions at a glance. - trustunsafe/Notch-Pilot
I turned my MacBook notch into a live Claude Code dashboard launched on April 17, 2026 with 9 votes, #1,315 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Your MacBook notch, but it's a live Claude Code dashboard. Live usage limits, session status, permission prompts, and an animated buddy — all in the hole you already stare at. brew tap devmegablaster/devmegablaster brew install --cask notch-pilot First launch: right-click Notch Pilot.app in /Applications → Open (the app is ad-hoc signed, so Gatekeeper needs a one-time nod). That's it. No menu bar icon. No dock icon. Hover the notch and the app reveals itself. The center of the expanded panel shows your real 5-hour session utilization % — the same number Claude's billing page shows you, not an estimate. Click it for the full breakdown: weekly limits (all models / Sonnet / Opus), extra-credit…from github.com
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