Omega Notch is a small notch fused to an edge of your screen. It shows how much of each AI coding tool's limit you have used, which sessions are working right now, and tells you when one finishes or needs you. One Rust engine reads it all from your own computer; a native shell draws it, in Swift on macOS and Qt 6 / QML on KDE Plasma (Wayland).
Works with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, OpenCode, Claude Desktop, Grok Bot and more.
Note
Omega Notch is still young: expect rough edges and settings that change between versions. It is an unofficial tool, not affiliated with any of the tools it reads.
Needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
brew install --cask joaomdsferro/tap/omega-notchOr download the .dmg from the latest release.
The app is signed, notarised and updates itself.
Needs KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland. On Arch-based distributions, download the linux-x86_64.tar.gz from the
latest release, then:
sudo pacman -S --needed qt6-base qt6-declarative qt6-wayland layer-shell-qt kidletime libnotify python
tar xzf omega-notch-*-linux-x86_64.tar.gz && cd omega-notch-*-linux-x86_64
./install.shIt installs to ~/.local/bin without sudo and starts with Plasma. On other distributions,
build from source.
- One ring per tool, filling up as its limit goes, with an orbit while a session works and an amber pulse when one is waiting on you
- Alerts when a session finishes or asks something, and when a limit passes 80% or runs out
- Recent chats per tool, with tokens and model; click one to jump back to its window
- A dashboard with cost estimates and tokens over 7, 30 or 90 days, per model, tool and session, plus suggestions to spend less
- Light on your machine: the engine idles at about 1% CPU and parses transcripts incrementally
See every feature.
Everything is read locally, read-only. Network calls go to each tool's own usage endpoint, with the
sign-in that tool already saved; on macOS, to GitHub for the daily update check, which sends nothing
about you; and to Anthropic through your own claude only when you press "Ask Claude". There is no
server of ours. Details.
- Features and providers: what is shown and where it comes from
- FAQ: empty rings, other desktops, removing it, reporting a bug
- How it works and the socket protocol
- Claude Code hooks, for older Claude Code builds
- Contributing, including building from source, and Security
MIT. Part of the open-source Omega family, alongside Omega Zap. Not affiliated with Anthropic, Anysphere, Apple, GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI or xAI; their names and marks belong to their owners.