Private by default
No account and no sign-in. Captures, clipboard history and agent usage stay on your Mac, and the only thing that ever leaves it is the update check — and only if you turn it on.
About the developer
Rithy Bondeth
Bondex Notch is designed and built by Rithy Bondeth, an independent developer in Phnom Penh, Cambodia — in the open, and free for everyone.
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Swift & SwiftUI
- Open source · MIT
Why it exists
A notch that earns its place.
The notch takes a slice out of the top of every recent MacBook display and gives nothing back. Bondex Notch turns that space into a quiet, live surface: what is playing, what a coding agent is doing and whether it needs you, what just downloaded — there at a glance, and out of the way when it is not.
It is a one-person project, so every release is shaped by the people who use it. Bug reports, ideas and questions go straight to the developer.
How it is built
Four rules every feature follows.
Light on your Mac
A native Swift and SwiftUI app with no Electron or web view. Continuous animation runs on Core Animation, and a widget you switch off stops its service entirely.
Honest about macOS
Where macOS has no API — reading other apps’ notifications, for one — Bondex says so instead of faking it, and uses the supported route everywhere else.
Open to everyone
Every feature is free under the MIT License. Read the code, build it yourself, or download the ready-made app; every update is verified before it installs.
Releases
Shipped so far.
- Bondex Notch 1.1.1
Gemini CLI joins Claude Code and Codex in the notch, and in-app updates work end to end.
- Bondex Notch 1.1.0
Updates built in, “Needs you” when an agent waits on you, one-click agent setup, a notch that follows your display, and a first-launch welcome.
- Bondex Notch 1.0.0
The first public release: the notch as a live surface for music, agents, files and more.
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