Notch Crew

Notch Crew· AI coding agent monitor

Every AI coding agent in your Mac's notch, calling you only when one needs your approval or answer.

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What is Notch Crew?

Notch Crew is an AI coding agent monitor.

Notch Crew is a macOS app that keeps every AI coding agent session in your Mac's notch. It works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Antigravity CLI, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Pi, and the models Ollama has loaded, whether they run in Terminal, iTerm2, cmux, tmux, herdr, or with no window at all.

The notch shows the status, context, tokens, and model for each session, and it alerts you only when an agent needs your approval or an answer. You can answer permission prompts and questions right from the notch, type into a session or drop a file on it, hand off context to another agent, and switch agent modes. You can also group sessions into a crew with roles, such as a builder and a reviewer, and manage them from a shared board.

It is built for developers who run several coding agents at once and want to stop watching terminal windows. Its main difference is resource use: the page reports that rendering an agent's stream in a terminal window uses 26 to 77 mW, while the same session in the notch with no window uses 0.1 mW, and that Notch Crew uses about 51 MB of memory for every session. These figures come from the vendor's own measurements on a single MacBook Pro.

Your code and conversations stay on your Mac. The only outbound connections are the update check and the purchase check. The app costs $19 once after a 3-day free trial, with free updates across Macs signed in to the same iCloud account. It requires macOS 14 or later and supports Apple silicon and Intel.

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PricingOne-time purchase
LaunchedOct 10, 2026

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