UltraNotch: Claude and Codex limits, music and sales in the MacBook notch

One glance up

UltraNotch turns the MacBook notch into a panel of small apps. Point at the notch and it opens. Move away and it folds back. On a display without a notch, it waits at the top edge.

Things that happen while you work, like a sale, a charge, a volume change or a new song, show up beside the notch as Live Activities and leave on their own.

Your AI limits before you hit them

The AI Usage page shows your Claude and Codex limits across your accounts, with a forecast of your pace, so you see what is left before you hit the wall.

Everything else inside

The notch holds more than it looks like it could:

• Music, your next event and the month ahead, and the week’s weather.
• Sales from Stripe, Shopify, Etsy and others through a read-only key or a webhook.
• Reminders from the Reminders app or a plain Markdown task list.
• Clipboard history with pictures, files and links.
• Ask Ultra: chat on device with Apple Intelligence, or with ChatGPT and Claude models.
• Stocks as percentage change, never balances.
• A shelf for files and AirDrop, your chosen Shortcuts, timers, a stopwatch and Pomodoro.
• CPU, memory, disk, network and battery, plus a camera mirror, a teleprompter, quick notes, unit conversion and an emoji picker.

Private by default

Your keys stay in your Keychain and your sign-ins never leave your Mac. There are no ads, only anonymous usage counts. It is a native Swift and SwiftUI app for macOS 14 or later.

Price and install

UltraNotch is free for 7 days, then $14.99 once for up to 3 Macs. No subscription, with a 14-day money-back guarantee. Paste this into Terminal to install it, or read more on notch.thatlev.com.

curl -fsSL https://notch.thatlev.com/install.sh | sh