Canopy
The notch on your Mac, put to work. Music, system meters, and a stack of widgets that drop down when you reach for them and tuck away when you don't.
It grows as you reach for it.
At rest it's a slim pill wrapped around the camera. Hover, and a small panel drops down. Click, and it opens all the way. Every module follows the same three steps, so there's nothing new to learn from one feature to the next.
One notch, a lot of jobs.
Every feature is its own module, and you choose which ones live up there — plus a tray of thirteen hover widgets you can reorder. The notch isn't the gadget; it's the platform. A handful of them:
Volume and brightness, minus the big square.
The system overlay Apple drops in the middle of your screen, moved up into the notch as a slim slider or a segmented meter.
How much Claude you have left.
Your Claude usage as a live meter in the notch — the five-hour window and the weekly limit, without opening anything.
In plain English, not a graph.
Reads memory pressure, thermals, and CPU and just tells you: running smoothly, getting tight, or under heavy load. Tap through to Activity Monitor.
A tray for when nothing's playing.
With no music, the hover panel becomes whatever you put there — battery, weather, a timer, a Pomodoro, the date. Thirteen to pick from, reordered like Apple's Edit Actions.
And the notch picks up where the Mac is quiet about things — incoming calls, live activities, notifications, a drag-and-drop file shelf, app switching.
Hand a screenshot to your iPad, get it back marked up.
Drop a screenshot onto the notch and it lands on your iPad. Mark it up with the pencil, and the annotated version comes straight back to the same spot it left from. It runs over your local network — paired once, encrypted end to end, nothing through the cloud.
Built on Boring Notch, rebuilt as a platform.
Canopy started as a fork of Boring Notch and turned into a modular system: every feature is an independent module with its own manager, views, and settings, so any of them can be switched off without touching the rest. It's Apple-native to the core — SF Symbols, system colors, observers instead of polling loops — and it sits under 1% CPU when nothing's happening.
Developed with Claude Code, module by module.