Notchi

Your notch, always ready.

Notchi is a beautifully simple way to save a note, set a reminder, ask AI, or run a coding agent — right from your Mac's notch.

Install via Homebrew
$ brew install --cask cyrus-cai/lofi-lab/notchi
Notchi in the Mac's notch

Ask anything

Type into the notch — answers use your own provider key.

Asking the notch a question

Notes & reminders

A line like “call mum tomorrow 9am” lands straight in Reminders; thoughts land in Notes.

Typing a reminder Added to Reminders

Search, vision, math

Web answers with sources, questions about what you copied, exact math.

Web search from the notch

Run a coding agent

Point it at a project folder and watch the run from the closed notch.

Composing an agent run The closed notch during a run
Notchi
Notchi

Your notch, always ready.

Notchi is a beautifully simple way to save a note, set a reminder, ask AI, or run a coding agent — right from your Mac's notch.

Notchi in the Mac's notch
Notchi File Edit View
GitHub ↗ Wed Jun 11  9:41 AM
Type anything… — Ask
hover the notch
Fully open source Source on GitHub Built in Liquid Glass

You type. It sorts.

Type the thought the way it arrived — half-formed is fine. Notchi reads it and routes it: a question to AI, a note to keep, or a reminder with a time.

Asking the notch: is a fortnight two weeks? — the answer sits in the glass panel
Typing “sarah: prefers async standups” — the inline hint reads “— Note” The panel confirms: Added to Notes
Typing “call mum tomorrow 9am” — the inline hint reads “— Remind” The panel confirms: Added to Reminders

More than a text box.

Questions can pull in the live web, see the screenshot you just copied, and run real arithmetic. Even copying can file things away — no typing at all.

Asking who's playing at the Sphere tonight — the answer cites thesphere.com and one more source
Asking about a copied chart — the panel notes it's based on what you copied
A copied line rides into the panel as a quote, with Remind, Summarize, Proofread and Translate presets
18% tip on $284.60 split 3 ways — $111.94 each, computed exactly

Hand it a whole task.

Point it at a project folder and describe the job. Notchi runs it in the background on your own Codex or Claude CLI — the closed notch shows the live step and elapsed time, and a notification lands when it's done.

The agent compose: “add dark mode to the settings page” typed over the Agent pill, a project folder chip, and the model pick “Opus 4.8 high”
A run in flight: the status row reads “Editing SettingsView.swift” with 4m 39s on the clock The closed notch during a run: “Editing” on the left ear, elapsed time on the right

Native, not bolted on.

Notchi is drawn in the same Liquid Glass material as the rest of macOS — same blur, same edge light, same spring — so it feels like part of the system, not something stuck on top.

Youwhat exactly is liquid glass?
Apple's translucent material language — blurred, layered, a little dramatic. You're looking at it.
Part of the notchSolid black at the top, so the panel and the bezel read as one piece.
Real glassIt blurs what's behind it and catches light at the edges — cool above, warm below.

Your model. Your key.

Sorting happens on your Mac. Then your question goes to the provider you picked, signed with your own key — or start free with OpenRouter's one-click connect.

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No account

Nothing to sign up for. Install it and start typing.

No backend

Questions go straight to your provider — nothing passes through our servers.

Free & open source

Every line is public on GitHub.

Native to macOS

One small app, drawn in the system's own Liquid Glass.

Put it on your Mac.