A slim pill at the top of your screen shows what's playing, your system stats and your coding agents. Hover it and it opens into a panel with everything else.
Free, no account · Windows 10 2004 or newer, x64 · 27 MB
Files go to the api you are building. Nothing leaves your browser.
Everything on the desktop works. Try Ctrl Alt N, or type QNotch.exe notify "Hi" in the pwsh tab.
Measured on Windows 11, collapsed and idle. No Electron, no browser engine, no polling.
The pill shows what matters right now. The panel holds the rest. Turn off what you don't use: a feature that is off is never loaded.
Every Claude Code session shows up in the pill and the Agents tab: working, needs you or done. When one stops to ask, the pill widens for a moment and plays a soft sound. You also see the tokens each one used today, and the dev servers it left running, each with a Stop button.
QNotch.exe notify "Build finished" "142 tests passed" --level successA command, a named pipe or local HTTP. Add buttons and wait for the answer.
Track, artwork and controls for Spotify, your browser, or anything else that plays media.
dotnet build -c ReleaseText, code, links and images, with pins. It stays in memory unless you choose to keep it.
Clipboard, files, notes, notifications, tasks, tabs and settings. Ctrl Alt F from anywhere.
When a game or fullscreen video runs, the notch shrinks to one quiet line of status. No hover, no pop-ups, clicks go straight through.
A glyph in the pill while any app uses your microphone or camera. Notifications stay quiet during calls.
Launch them with Alt 1 to 6, and see your Claude Code and Codex usage limits.
Drag the pill sideways to get it out of the way of your tabs, and it remembers the spot for each app. Drag cards to rearrange the Home grid. Copy your whole setup as one line of text and paste it on another PC.
Every shortcut works from any app, and you can change them in Settings, Hotkeys. They work on the demo above too.
QNotch is a small shell and fifteen extensions. Each one lives in its own folder and plugs into five slots. Read every line, change what you don't like, or add the thing you wish it did.
├─ Shell/ window, pill, panel, tray ├─ Theme/ └─ Modules/ ├─ ModuleList.cs the one file that names them ├─ Agents/ ├─ Clipboard/ ├─ Media/ ├─ Notifications/ ├─ Stats/ ├─ 10 more └─ Weather/ yours
public sealed class WeatherModule : INotchModule { public void Initialize(ModuleContext ctx) { // A tile on the Home grid ctx.Cards.Register(new("weather", "Weather", DefaultOrder: 35, () => new WeatherCard())); // Today's temperature in the pill ctx.Segments.Register(new("weather.pill", SegmentSlot.PillRight, Order: 8, WeatherSegments.Pill)); } }
Every extension has a switch in Settings, Features. One that is off is never constructed: no timers, no hooks, no memory. Try it.
Say what it does and where it shows: a card, a tab, the pill or the game bar. Space is limited, so agree on that first.
Everything lives in Modules/<Name>/. One line in ModuleList.cs is the only change outside it.
QNotch.exe --snapshot renders every tab and settings page to PNG. CI builds and snapshots every pull request.
Attach the PNGs and your idle CPU and memory numbers. The performance rules are hard limits.
Anything that can run a program can talk to the notch. Post from a build script, a hook or a cron job, add buttons, and read back which one was clicked.
Notifications referenceQNotch.exe notify "Deploy done" --app CI --level success\\.\pipe\QNotch.NotifyPOST http://127.0.0.1:47821/notifyQNotch shows you your own machine. Apart from the two things below, nothing leaves it, and the code is there to check.
Settings, notes and logs live in %APPDATA%\QNotch on your PC.
Tokens go in Windows Credential Manager, never in a file.
History is kept in memory unless you choose to keep it.
Your GitHub graph once you add a token, and Claude Code usage limits. Both are in Settings, and both can be turned off.
Yes. QNotch is MIT licensed: no account, no subscription, no trial. The whole source is on GitHub.
The exe is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen does not know it. Click More info, then Run anyway. Or build it yourself from source with the .NET 10 SDK.
QNotch-self-contained.zip (80 MB) runs as is. QNotch.exe (27 MB) is smaller but needs the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime.
Yes. It needs Windows 10 version 2004 or newer, on x64.
No. When a game or fullscreen video is in front, Game mode shrinks the notch to one line of status, turns off hover and lets clicks pass straight through. Ctrl+Alt+G cycles Auto, On and Off.
One click in Settings, Agents adds a hook to Claude Code's settings.json, with a backup. The hook talks to QNotch over a local pipe. Token counts come from the transcripts Claude Code already keeps on your PC.
It is what those tokens would cost at API list prices. A Pro or Max plan is not billed per token, so think of it as a gauge.
Yes. Pick the monitor in Settings, General. It follows DPI changes without a restart.
Open an issue with a sentence on what it does and where it shows, then build it in its own folder under src/QNotch/Modules. The contributing guide walks through it.
Free and open source · MIT license