Stop Cluttering Your Menu Bar. Use Your Notch Instead.
CCSeva is a decent menu bar app, but your Mac's menu bar is already crowded with icons you never click. Notchy transforms your dead notch space into a beautiful, animated live dashboard for tracking Claude Code and Codex usage — natively, and for free.
Why switch from CCSeva to Notchy?
- Smart Pace Projections
Notchy's usage engine predicts if your current quota will last until reset, warning you before you hit a rate limit.
- Better Screen Real Estate
Menu bar apps often get hidden on smaller MacBooks (like the Air) because of the notch. Notchy solves this by using the notch itself. Your AI token burn and limits are elegantly displayed right where your eyes naturally rest.
- Gorgeous Visuals & Sunburst Charts
Instead of tiny menu bar text, Notchy provides a full animated sunburst visualization of your token limits, live count-ups, and a shimmer effect that activates whenever your AI agent is actively processing.
- The Ultimate All-in-One Utility
Why install a single-purpose AI tracker? Notchy gives you AI usage tracking, clipboard history, Pomodoro timers, Now Playing media controls, and file shelves all in one incredibly optimized, 0.1% CPU app.
Everything Notchy does, for free
- Fluid Dynamic Island animations on the Mac notch
- Command palette (⌃⌥K) — every action one keystroke away
- Knock — double-tap a modifier key to open the notch
- AI usage tracker (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot)
- Detach any tab into a menu-bar popover
- Now Playing music controls (Apple Music & Spotify)
- Time-synced karaoke lyrics under the notch
- Mac clipboard history shelf (password-manager safe)
- Searchable clipboard — filter by text, file name, or OCR'd words
- On-device OCR — copy a screenshot, get its text (Apple Vision)
- Window snapping — drag a window to the notch to tile it
- App Launcher — pin apps to the notch, open with one tap
- Text snippets — TextExpander-style pastes from the ⌘K palette
- One-tap screen capture to clipboard + shelf
- Color eyedropper — sample any pixel, hex auto-copied
- System-wide mic mute for every meeting app at once
- Keystroke HUD for demos & screencasts (secure-input safe)
- Keyboard cleaning lock with countdown island (⌘⎋ unlocks)
- Menu-bar icon hiding — Bartender-style separator & chevron
- Live CPU / memory / network stats flyout
- Open GitHub PR count in the notch (Keychain-stored token)
- iPhone-style call island — Answer/Decline FaceTime on the notch
- Notch Terminal — real VT100/xterm shell in a PTY, its own tab
- Privacy Indicator — pill when any app's camera or mic goes live
- Caps Lock HUD — brief island on every toggle
- Full Charge island with adjustable threshold + low-battery sound
- Alt HUD styles — edge-pinned bar or circular gauge off the notch
- Audio-reactive Now Playing visualizer (real FFT of system audio)
- Custom closed-notch idle animation — drop in your own Lottie JSON
- Drag-and-drop file drop shelf — persists across relaunches
- Zip & unzip files right from the shelf
- Image converter (HEIC, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PDF) + video → GIF
- Run Apple Shortcuts with one tap
- Screenshots auto-staged on the shelf, ready to drag
- Download finished alerts with Reveal in Finder
- USB drive mount island with one-tap Eject
- Apple Reminders quick capture & due list
- macOS Pomodoro notch timer & stopwatch — streaks + 7-day chart
- Resizable expanded panel (width & height, live preview)
- System HUDs (volume, brightness, battery)
- Audio output switcher (speakers, AirPods, monitor)
- AirPods connection manager & battery
- Magic Mouse, Keyboard & Trackpad battery + low-battery alerts
- Quick notes & Calendar widgets
- Camera Mirror (check your appearance)
- Keep Awake (caffeine toggle)
- Teleprompter (Cuely) for Zoom calls
- Focus-aware alerts & native haptic feedback
- Lock screen widgets & hide-the-notch mode
- 133 languages, fully localized
- Native SwiftUI, tuned for Apple Silicon
CCSeva alternative — FAQ
Is there a free CCSeva alternative for Mac?
Yes — Notchy. Rather than another menu-bar icon, Notchy puts a native Claude Code usage tracker inside your Mac’s notch, for free.
Does Notchy live in the menu bar like CCSeva?
No — the usage dashboard renders on and around the notch, so it doesn’t add clutter to an already crowded menu bar.
Which AI providers does Notchy track?
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI/ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and DeepSeek — 60+ providers in total.
Is Notchy free?
Yes — completely free, funded only by optional donations.
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