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Perch for Mac

See coding-agent activity in the Mac notch, reply, and jump back to sessions.

By asafofer. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Perch at a glance

Version
0.5.5
Released
12 November 2026
Download size
4.3 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Menu Bar and Notch
Developer
asafofer
GitHub stars
30

About Perch

See when Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or pi need you, and answer from the Mac notch. Free, open source, local-only.

Screenshots

Perch screenshot 1

How to install Perch on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Perch and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.5.5 from asafofer'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 Perch 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: Perch.dmg (4.3 MB).

What is new in Perch 0.5.5

Archiving a Claude app session from the notch works again

- Rename, archive or delete on a Claude app session finds Claude's menu every time, not only when Claude's focus lands on it
- After a rename, archive or delete, the list and card keep the keyboard

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