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Notchpad for Mac

Modular panel in the notch: live Claude Code sessions and token usage, a file shelf, keep-awake while an agent is working, system stats, Unity and MCP status.

By BirdyTheDev. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Notchpad at a glance

Version
2.2.0
Released
26 July 2026
Download size
2.3 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Menu Bar and Notch
Developer
BirdyTheDev
GitHub stars
2

About Notchpad

A modular panel in the MacBook notch — file shelf, system stats, keep-awake, timer, Claude Code sessions, Unity and MCP status. You choose what goes in it.

Screenshots

Notchpad screenshot 1Notchpad screenshot 2

How to install Notchpad on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Notchpad and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 2.2.0 from BirdyTheDev's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Notchpad show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Notchpad-2.2.0.dmg (2.3 MB).

What is new in Notchpad 2.2.0

First public release.

A modular panel in the MacBook notch. Fifteen modules you switch on, off and reorder: a file shelf, system and memory readouts, battery, pomodoro, keep-awake (including automatically while an agent is working), your own shell commands, music, calendar, weather — plus live Claude Code sessions, token usage, an action launcher for slash commands and skills, Unity Hub projects with the editor's compile errors, and MCP server health.

## Install

Download **Notchpad-2.2.0.dmg** below, drag the app to Applications, then run the hook installer once so the Claude modules can see your sessions:

 git clone https://github.com/BirdyTheDev/notchpad
 cd notchpad && ./install.sh

The build is signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple, so it opens without warnings. macOS 14 or newer, Apple Silicon.

Building from source works too: `./build.sh && ./install.sh`

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