Developer Toolkit
Your GitHub PRs, in the Notch
How many of your pull requests are still open? Notchy keeps the answer one glance away — a developer surface no other notch app has, free.
Glanceable, not naggy
An island and a Home glance show your open-PR count; tapping opens github.com/pulls. No notification storm, no separate app window to babysit.
Keychain-stored token
Your Personal Access Token lives in the macOS Keychain — never on disk. Only read scopes are required, so the integration physically can't touch your repos.
Built for dev workflows
Notchy already tracks your AI usage (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor) — PRs slot into the same glanceable dashboard you check between builds.
Free and native
Pure SwiftUI, ~0.1% CPU idle, no Electron. Every GitHub widget worth using seems to cost money or ship a browser runtime — this one does neither.
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
GitHub PR Tracker — FAQ
How does Notchy track my GitHub PRs?
Add a GitHub Personal Access Token in Notchy's settings and it runs a lightweight search-API poll for the pull requests you authored that are still open. The count shows as an island and a Home glance; tapping opens github.com/pulls.
Is my GitHub token safe?
The token is stored in the macOS Keychain — never on disk, never transmitted anywhere except to GitHub's API. Only read scopes (repo / read:user) are needed; Notchy can't modify anything.
Why the notch instead of a menu bar app like Gitify?
Your PR count sits with everything else you glance at — music, timers, battery — in one place, instead of another menu bar icon. And unlike most GitHub widgets, it's free and native SwiftUI.
Does it show CI status or reviews?
The focus is the number that drives your day: how many of your PRs are still open. One tap lands you on github.com/pulls for the full picture — reviews, checks, everything.