Vibe Notch

Orchestrator

Open source macOS menu bar app that shows Claude Code sessions in the MacBook notch. Tracks several sessions at once, approves or denies tool calls and shows the chat history.

Farouq AldoriFree2026-08-23

Website Repo

Formerly Claude Island, renamed 20 April 2026

Renamed to Vibe Notch with the v1.3.2 release.

Pricing

Plan	Price	Included	Beyond that	Notes
Open source individual	Free	—	—	You pay for Claude Code, nothing for Vibe Notch itself

Needs macOS 15.6 or later and the Claude Code CLI. The app sends anonymous launch and session start events to Mixpanel.

Source: github.com/farouqaldori/vibe-notch Pricing verified 2026-08-23

Works with

What Vibe Notch runs, and what can run Vibe Notch. "With your existing login" means the wrapped tool's subscription is reused, no second bill.

Runs

Claude Code via CLI
Free with your existing login
Installs hooks into ~/.claude/hooks on first launch and listens for session events over a Unix socket. It does not launch sessions itself.

Models

AnthropicBYOK

Inherited from the tools it runs.

Inherits whatever the installed Claude Code is signed in with.

Features

Parallel agentsHooks

Install

downloadhttps://github.com/farouqaldori/vibe-notch/releases/latest

License

Apache-2.0 · Open source · github.com/farouqaldori/vibe-notch

Sources

Every fact above points at a vendor page and the date someone last checked it.

github.com/farouqaldori/vibe-notch
pricingplatformsfeatureswrapslicensegeneral2026-08-23
github.com/farouqaldori/vibe-notch/releases
general2026-08-23