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 — on your own Codex, Claude Code, Grok or Command Code CLI.

Composing an agent run A finished run, with the calls it made listed above the answer

Bind a prompt to a key

Write an instruction once, give it a chord, and it runs on the text selected in any app — the notch never has to open.

The Shortcuts pane in Settings
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
Built in Liquid Glass Fully open source Source on GitHub Total downloads 410

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 destination pill reads Note The panel confirms: Added to Notes
Typing “call mum tomorrow 9am” — the destination pill 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
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, Claude Code, Grok or Command Code 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 settings page” typed over the Agent pill, the project “notch”, and the model pick “5.6-Sol high” A run in flight: the status row reads “find the Shortcut menu code…” with 22s on the clock
A finished run: the grep calls it made are listed above its answer, with “Follow up with Command Code…” waiting below

Bind a prompt to a key.

Write an instruction once — translate this, tighten this — give it a chord, and it runs on whatever text you have selected, in whatever app you're in. The summon chord and every panel action live in the same place, all rebindable.

Settings → Shortcuts: two prompt shortcuts bound to chords, the summon chord, and the panel's own keys

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. No key at all works too: chat straight through a Codex, Claude Code, Grok or Command Code CLI you're already signed in to.

One key, every model
OpenRouterVercel AI Gateway
With your own key
OpenAIAnthropicGoogle GeminiDeepSeekQwenKimiGLMMiniMaxMiMoYour own endpoint
No key needed
CodexClaude CodeGrokCommand Code

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.