Alternatives to Super Notch

Clavio , also on the App Store , opens the developer's site in a new tab Turn speech into text that's ready to send.

AI dictation for Mac. Hold a key or say ‘Hey Clavio’ — speak in any app and polished text drops in. Per-app styles, 28 languages, free to start.

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BoxBox, opens the developer's site in a new tab BoxBox 是一个陪你与多个 AI 一起工作的 Mac 桌面伙伴。它留意任务状态，在完成或需要你时提醒你，并把工作记录留在时间线里。

BoxBox follows your work across AI tools such as Claude, Codex and Cursor, alerts you when supported tasks finish or need attention, and keeps the work in one timeline. A desktop companion for macOS 14+ on Apple silicon and Intel. Capabilities vary by tool. Includes a 15-day Pro trial without an account or credit card, then a limited Free edition; AI model subscriptions are separate.

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Cowork Island, opens the developer's site in a new tab Monitor Claude Cowork, Codex and other supported AI sessions on your Mac. See progress, spot requests and return to the right task.

Cowork Island is a panel at the top of your Mac for anyone who runs several AI tasks at once. It shows your AI sessions from Claude Cowork and recent Claude desktop chats, plus Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and other supported tools. Without switching apps, you can see which ones are working and which need you.

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Brief, opens the developer's site in a new tab Someone pasted 1,200 words from ChatGPT. Press ⌃X on any window. Get just the point.

Brief is a free macOS menu-bar app for reading long AI-generated text. Press Control-X on any window and Brief returns only the lines that change what you do next. It works in browsers, chat apps and terminals, uses the transcript on YouTube, and shapes the output to the source: an answer for chats, ordered points for videos, and what changed plus what to check for pull requests. It runs on your existing Claude or ChatGPT plan, or on-device with Apple Intelligence. No account needed.

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TokenBar, opens the developer's site in a new tab Show usage stats for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, without having to login.

TokenBar is a Mac menu bar app that shows your Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini and Copilot usage limits, reset times and spend in one place. The Pro dashboard adds spending history and provider mix, and Pixel Agents shows which coding agents are working or waiting on you. Built on the open-source, MIT-licensed CodexBar. macOS 14+. Pro $15 lifetime or Basic $5/month, chosen in the app.

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Teebots, opens the developer's site in a new tab

Teebots is your little team of AI bots that runs on your own Mac: no server, no account, your own model key, and it asks before anything big. Keeps running from the menu bar.

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Claude Sessions Pro, opens the developer's site in a new tab Each Claude account with its own login, chats, Claude Code sessions and pins, side by side on Mac or Windows. $15 one-time.

Menu bar switcher that runs multiple Claude accounts side by side, each as its own app with its own login and Dock icon.

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Perch (perchapp.dev), opens the developer's site in a new tab See when Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or pi need you, and answer from the Mac notch. Free, open source, local-only.

Lives in your Mac's notch and shows what your Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and pi sessions did while you were away, and what needs you now. Answer from the notch, then jump back to the exact session.

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AUTOMATER.ai, opens the developer's site in a new tab

AUTOMATER.ai is a small tray (menu bar) app for macOS (Apple silicon), Windows and Linux that keeps track of every AI coding agent you run. It reads the session files your AI tools already write (41 tools in 45 formats, including Claude Code, Codex and Cursor) and puts them into one local, searchable library. A live activity view flags the agents waiting on your input, and usage across 9 providers sits in one panel. It also includes free on-device dictation. The free version needs no account; optional PRO starts at $15/year.

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Kenko, opens the developer's site in a new tab She watches your Claude Code and Codex sessions and stays quiet until one needs you. $0.99 once, for macOS.

She lives in your MacBook notch and speaks up only when Claude Code or Codex needs you. $0.99 once.

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GenTidy, opens the developer's site in a new tab

GenTidy is a macOS menu bar app for AI image creation. Select text or an image, press ⌘P (remappable), and create images without switching apps. Every prompt is saved with the image so a good result is never lost. Runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 13 or later; download from gentidy.com.

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