Bondex NotchContact

A calmer control center for macOS

Your Mac's notch,
finally useful.

Capture thoughts, run focus sessions, join meetings, control music and follow agents, downloads and system health — all where your eyes already pass. Bondex appears when it matters and melts back when it doesn't.

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macOS 14+ · Full 24-hour trial · No account · Everything stays on your Mac

Agent activity✎ Quick Capture◷ Focus & meetings⌕ Command palette
Codex is workingRefining the landing page03:42
Building releaseRunning tests · 72%
23%CPU
77%Memory
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23%CPU
77%Memory
⚡AC power
↓ 3.2 MB/s↑ 118 KB/sNetwork
Quick CaptureOn this Mac
Review the launch checklist at 3 PMSave
✦Enhance on deviceUser-triggered on supported macOS 26 Macs
https://bondex.app/launchLink · pinnedCopy
My actionsApps + Apple Shortcuts
⌘Open Xcode
▶Daily setup
◷Start focus
⌕Commands
Live activities1 running
↗Building releaseRunning tests72%
⌁Watching previewlocalhost:4173Live
Blinding LightsThe Weeknd — After Hours · Spotify1:183:20
Xcode_26.xip4.1 GB · 22.4 MB/s
design-review.sketch184 MB
Xcode_26.xipDownload complete · 7.4 GB4:14 PM
Blinding LightsThe Weeknd · Spotify4:11 PM
Low Battery14% remaining3:58 PM
3 itemsDrag out to use
PDFLaunch brief.pdf
PNGHero artwork.png
TSXNotchDemo.tsx
＋Drop files here
Clipboard · this sessionPause
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Ship the quiet details.Text · pinnedCopy
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Memory only · concealed and transient content is ignored

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Your work, alive at a glance.

Bondex is more than a media pill. It is a compact, private status layer for everything already happening on your Mac.

MusicNative playbackSpotifyNative playbackSafari + ChromeBrowser audioCodex + ClaudeAgent activityQuick CaptureNotes + linksShortcuts + scriptsActions + activities

01 · Agent awareness

Let your agents work. You'll know when they're done.

Bondex shows which coding agent is active, the task it is working through, and a running clock. Multiple agents appear side by side, so parallel work never becomes mystery work.

  • Explore the same ten tabs as the real Mac panel
  • Signal agents, run builds and simulate downloads
  • Control music, change accents and drop files onto Shelf
Interactive app previewExplore the real app flow
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◷Focus timer25 minutes
▣Product design reviewStarts in 11 minutes
Codex is workingRefining the landing page
Blinding LightsThe Weeknd · Spotify
Agent signals
Try an action
Accent

Ten live tabs · local-only demo · drop files onto Shelf

02 · Media + system

Control the soundtrack. Keep an eye on the machine.

See artwork, track, artist and progress from Music, Spotify and supported browser players. The same Home view keeps CPU, memory, battery and real network throughput one glance away.

  • Playback controls that never steal keyboard focus
  • YouTube, SoundCloud, Twitch and more through browser tabs
  • Kernel-sampled metrics with an optional compact summary
Spotify player · rendered by the Mac app
The real Bondex Notch Spotify player with playback controls
System panel · rendered by the Mac app
The real Bondex Notch system panel with CPU, memory, battery, network and device batteries

03 · Files in motion

Downloads land. Files wait. Your desktop stays clean.

Watch transfers arrive in Downloads with live size and speed, then reveal them in Finder. Drag working files onto the notch to keep a temporary shelf available above every app.

  • Live Downloads folder activity and completion banners
  • Drag files in, then drag them back out anywhere
  • References only — Bondex never duplicates your files
Files · real empty state
The real Bondex Notch Files panel in its empty state
Shelf · real drag-and-drop state
The real Bondex Notch Shelf panel holding a folder

04 · Capture + act

Catch the thought. Find the clipboard. Move on.

Quick Capture saves notes and links above the app you are already using. Session-only clipboard history, a personal shortcut grid and one searchable command palette keep routine actions within reach.

  • Search, pin and copy captures without changing windows
  • Clipboard text, links and images stay memory-only
  • Open apps, run Apple Shortcuts or jump to any widget
Quick Capture · rendered by the Mac app
The real Bondex Notch Quick Capture panel with two saved captures
Shortcuts
The real Bondex Notch Shortcuts grid
Clipboard
The real Bondex Notch Clipboard history panel

05 · Context aware

The right notch for the moment you are in.

Smart profiles can react to apps, time, power, displays and meetings. Focus, calendar and system signals then surface only the context that helps — without reading notifications or recording your camera or mic.

  • Work, Meeting, Media and Gaming presets with automatic rules
  • Restart-safe focus timer and one-click meeting links
  • Hardware HUD, privacy signals and connected-device batteries
Productivity Home · real app state
The real Bondex Notch Home panel showing focus, a meeting, coding agents and media

FocusMeetingAgentsMedia

06 · Made for your Mac

Shape the notch around the way you work.

Choose what appears, put tabs in your preferred order, and tune the panel until it feels native to your setup. Every change applies live, with a synthetic pill for displays that have no hardware notch.

  • Custom accent, material, width, opacity and corner geometry
  • Reorder tabs and disable any widget completely
  • Adjust hover delay, close delay and animation speed
Appearance settings · rendered by the Mac app
The real Bondex Notch Appearance settings window

Small footprint

Useful at a glance. Quiet the rest of the time.

Bondex is designed for low CPU overhead from the beginning—not wrapped in a browser engine after the fact. Native services do one focused job, update at a deliberate cadence, and stop when you turn their widget off.

Low-overhead architectureSwift + SwiftUI · background utility sampling
2 secSystem refresh

CPU, memory, power and network sampling runs as a background utility task.

0Web runtimes

No Electron process and no embedded web view sitting behind the panel.

OffMeans stopped

Disable a widget and its service stops sampling instead of merely hiding it.

LocalBy default

Core widgets read your Mac directly without uploading their activity.

The complete toolkit

Everything your notch can do. One calmer desktop.

Every part of Bondex answers a question you'd otherwise open an app to answer. Keep the widgets you need, reorder them, and switch the rest off completely.

Music

Track, artist, album art and a scrubbing progress bar for Music and Spotify — with transport controls that don't steal focus from what you're typing.

Browser audio

See what is playing in Safari and Chromium tabs, including YouTube, YouTube Music, SoundCloud and Twitch — with controls when the site exposes them.

Agent activity

Know when Codex, Claude Code, Gemini, Ollama or another CLI agent is working, what it is doing, and how long it has been running.

Quick Capture

Save a thought or link without leaving your current app. Search, pin and copy captures later, with optional user-triggered on-device Apple Intelligence enhancement on supported macOS 26 Macs.

Clipboard history

Keep text, links and images from this session close at hand. Pause capture, search or pin an item; concealed and transient clipboard content is ignored and history is never written to disk.

Actions and shortcuts

Build a personal action grid for opening apps, running Apple Shortcuts and showing the widget you need. Global shortcuts can open the panel, Capture or the command palette.

Focus and meetings

Run a restart-safe focus timer from 1 to 180 minutes, and optionally see the next calendar event with a countdown and one-click Zoom, Meet, Teams or Webex link.

Smart profiles

Switch the notch for Work, Meeting, Media or Gaming — manually or with rules for the active app, time, power source, connected displays and meetings. The command palette puts every action in one search.

Custom live activities

Send progress from a script, Shortcut, build tool or terminal. Active jobs stay in the peek and finish directly into your activity feed.

File activity

Watches your Downloads folder and reports transfers as they land, with live throughput. Click through to reveal anything in Finder.

System

CPU load, memory pressure, battery and real network throughput — plus connected headphone, keyboard, mouse and trackpad batteries when macOS exposes them.

Hardware HUD + privacy

See volume, display brightness, keyboard brightness and battery changes beside the notch. Camera and microphone activity indicators work without recording or asking for camera or microphone access.

Activity feed

A running log of what changed: tracks, finished downloads, power events, shelf drops. Transient events also flash as a banner beside the notch.

Drop shelf

Drag files onto the notch to park them, then drag them back out anywhere. Nothing is copied — the shelf holds references to your real files.

Make it yours

Tune width, opacity, corners, top flares, rim, shadow and animation speed. Choose a preset or custom accent and reorder every tab.

Native automation

Use App Intents in Apple Shortcuts to switch profiles, capture a thought, start a focus timer, show a widget or change automatic profile mode — all in a native Swift and SwiftUI app with no Electron or web view.

One gesture

Three states, drawn to scale

The panel is the same object throughout. It only ever changes size.

  1. Collapsed

    Exactly the size of your hardware notch, and completely invisible against it. Bondex is doing nothing to your screen.

  2. Peek

    When something needs context — a track, agent, focus timer, meeting, hardware change or privacy signal — a thin strip grows beside the notch. Never over it.

  3. Expanded

    Move the pointer to the notch and the full panel springs down. Move away and it's gone. Click to pin it open while you work.

Displays

No notch? No problem.

On external displays and pre-2021 Macs, Bondex draws its own pill in the same place and behaves identically. It follows the built-in display when you plug in, and re-measures itself whenever your display arrangement changes.

Pricing

Try everything. Then pay once.

Your first 24 hours include the complete app—no locked features. Purchase one licence to keep using Bondex Notch afterward.

24-hour full trial

Bondex Notch

$14.99one-time

Try the complete app free for 24 hours. Then purchase once to keep using it.

  • Music and supported browser playback
  • Agent activity for Codex, Claude, Gemini, Ollama and custom agents
  • Custom live activities from scripts and Shortcuts
  • Quick Capture and session-only clipboard history
  • Focus timer and optional upcoming meetings
  • Custom actions, command palette and Apple Shortcuts actions
  • Smart profiles with automatic rules
  • System metrics, connected-device batteries and hardware HUD
  • Privacy indicators and activity feed
  • Hover, peek and expand behaviour
  • File activity and live downloads
  • Drag-and-drop file shelf
  • Every theme and appearance control
  • Lifetime licence, no feature tiers
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The honest answers

What it can and can't do

Which music apps are supported?

Apple Music, Spotify, Safari, and supported Chromium browsers. macOS has no public system-wide "now playing" API — MPNowPlayingInfoCenter only reports the calling process, and the private framework that used to work was locked down in macOS 15.4. Bondex uses each app's scripting interface instead, which is the supported route. Browser tabs can show players such as YouTube, YouTube Music, SoundCloud and Twitch after JavaScript from Apple Events is enabled once. You'll be asked for Automation permission the first time.

How does agent activity work?

A small hook tells Bondex when an agent starts a tool, what it is doing, and when the turn ends. Codex and Claude Code have direct setup flows; Gemini, Ollama, and any other CLI agent can use the same open busy/idle signal. Everything stays on your Mac and is watched without background polling.

What are custom live activities?

Progress updates that you send from a script, Shortcut, build tool or terminal — no SDK needed. A live activity can have a title, status and progress value; it stays visible in the peek and becomes an activity-feed event when it finishes.

How private are Quick Capture and clipboard history?

Captures stay on your Mac. Clipboard history is session-only, is never written to disk, and ignores content marked concealed or transient by the source app. You can pause it whenever you like. Capture enhancement is a separate, user-triggered action that uses on-device Apple Intelligence on supported macOS 26 Macs; ordinary capture never requires it.

Can I automate Bondex?

Yes. Bondex exposes App Intents to Apple Shortcuts for switching profiles, changing automatic profile mode, creating a quick capture, starting a focus timer and showing a widget. You can also assign global keyboard shortcuts to the panel, Quick Capture and command palette.

Does it show my other apps' notifications?

No, and no Mac app can. Notification Center's database is protected by System Integrity Protection and there's no API to read it. Rather than pretend otherwise, Bondex shows an activity feed: what it observes directly — track changes, completed downloads, power events, shelf drops.

How light is it on CPU and memory?

It's a native Swift app with no Electron runtime, web view, or background helper process. System metrics are sampled every two seconds on a background utility task, and widgets you disable stop their service entirely. Exact usage varies by Mac and enabled widgets, so Activity Monitor is the honest place to verify it on your setup.

What permissions does it ask for?

Up to four, all optional and requested only for the relevant feature: Automation for Music and Spotify, Files and Folders to watch Downloads, Notifications for Bondex alerts, and Calendar for upcoming meetings. Privacy indicators do not need camera or microphone permission and never record either source. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Will it work on my display?

macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon or Intel. Notch or no notch — on displays without one, Bondex draws a matching pill in the same position.

Private release

Want Bondex on your Mac?

Bondex Notch is privately developed. Get in touch for early access, licensing, product questions, or feedback—the message goes directly to the team building it.

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