NotchClaude GitHub
Menu bar app·For Claude Code

Approve Claude Code permissions from your Mac notch.

Answer prompts in place — in any terminal, or inside Claude Desktop.

Download for macOS ↓ Source
Nothing you type or run ever leaves your Mac

Free · MIT · macOS 14+ · No system permissions

ClaudeFri 09:41
notchclaude ·Mac notification app
Bash
npm run deploy -- --prod

Live — try Allow once or Deny

New·v1.7

The card can fly now.

A toggle in the Theme menu, not a replacement — the balloon's still there if you want it.

Plane presentation style. Instead of growing from a dot, the card flies in as a banner towed behind a small plane — decelerating to a stop, then accelerating back off on your decision.

Drag the plane anywhere. Grab it and pull; let go for a normal park, or keep going past ~90pt to send it flying off and dismiss the card outright — same swipe-to-dismiss gesture the balloon already had, just via the plane.

An engine sound on arrival and departure, real doppler direction, on by default — toggle it separately from the permission chime in Theme → Fly in with/without sound.

Plus a wider action row so three buttons never clip, and a few click-through/hit-testing fixes along the way.

Walkthrough·What's in the notch

Not just yes
and no.

The gate is the point, but the card learned a few things. Scroll.

01 / 05 The History window; typing 'bash' into search dims every non-matching row
HISTORY—DENY REASONS—AUTO-UPDATE

A searchable log of every decision, a reason on Deny, and a one-click update check — never silent.

02 / 05 The Manage Rules window; a cursor deletes a stale DENY rule from the list
RULE MANAGER—ALLOW / DENY / ASK

Every rule across every .claude directory, in one window — not hundreds of lines of hand-edited JSON.

03 / 05 A card being swiped to the side to dismiss it, no button pressed
SWIPE—NO DECISION—PASSTHROUGH

Drag the card away, like a macOS notification — no button to hunt for, Claude falls back to its normal prompt.

04 / 05 The same card rendered in Classic, Technical, and Blueprint themes with different balloon backgrounds
THEMES—BACKGROUNDS—SYSTEM APPEARANCE

Classic, Technical or Blueprint, paired with five balloon backgrounds — or set it to System and it just follows your Mac.

05 / 05 An Edit card showing a coloured inline diff, and a Bash card flagged as risky
RISK FLAGS—DIFF VIEW—BASH—EDIT

Commands like curl | sudo bash get an orange warning before you can miss it — and Edit shows a real coloured diff, not a truncated string.