Your notch, with a little life in it.

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Requires macOS 14 or later

Eave

a little shelter at the top of your screen.

Eave is a notch app for macOS: it lives in your menu bar and turns your MacBook’s notch into a small hub. Glance up for the song that’s playing and how much of your Claude Code session is left. Hover, and it opens into spaces you arrange yourself.

Connectors

Built in

Now playing

The song that’s on, right where you look.

Connect Spotify, Apple Music or SoundCloud, and the closed notch shows the album art on one side and bars that move with the music on the other. Hover, and the player widget is waiting in your space. With more than one, it follows whichever is playing.

The + adds the song to one of your playlists: Apple Music’s straight from your library, nothing to set up.

SoundCloud needs no app: Eave plays it right from its tab in Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave or Edge, and its ♥ likes the song.

The closed notch with album art on one side and music bars on the other

Claude Code

Your Claude Code session, at a glance.

A small ring shows how much of your session is used, and a little animation plays while Claude is working. At 80% and 90% you get a quiet heads-up. When a task finishes, the notch opens with the project, how long it took and the first line of the answer.

Eave also keeps a year of your activity as a heatmap, one square a day.

Claude Code usage opened from the notch: session and weekly limits, a year-long heatmap and totals

Clipboard history

Everything you copied, ready to paste again.

Text, links, colors and images, kept in order and one swipe away. Copies from password managers are never read, and you can tell Eave to ignore any other app.

Try it here: copy any line on this page.

Eave’s clipboard history: a note, a link with its preview, a color and a code snippet

File tray

A shelf for files, with AirDrop.

Drag files up to the notch to keep them close, then drag them out wherever they’re needed, or AirDrop them in one move.

The file tray holding two images and a PDF, with the AirDrop All button

Spaces

Spaces you arrange, in colors from the album art.

Each space is a small grid of widgets you place yourself, in the sizes you like. Give a space its own color, texture and a little grain, or let it borrow its colors from the album that’s playing.

The Home space open, with the music player and usage ring tinted in colors from the album art

Volume and brightness

The volume keys, answered by the notch.

Press volume or brightness and the notch shows it instead of macOS’s box: the speaker or the sun on one side, a slim bar on the other that warms up as it fills. Hold the key and it follows along; a moment later it’s gone.

A Controls widget puts both sliders in a space, too.

The closed notch showing the volume: a speaker on one side and a glowing blue bar on the other

Hello

A hello, written by hand, when you unlock.

As the lock screen fades, the notch opens a little and writes hello, with your name if you like, in a handwriting drawn just for Eave. Then Eave peeks up from the edge, and it’s back to work. Once a day, or every time: your call.

The notch open below the camera, with hello, sam written in white cursive and Eave peeking up beside it

Questions

What happens to my clipboard and files?

They never leave your Mac. History, images and tray files stay in your Library folder, and nothing is uploaded or synced. Copies from password managers are never read, and you can tell Eave to ignore any other app.

What do I need to run it?

A Mac running macOS 14 or later. Eave lives in the menu bar, with no Dock icon.

Does it work on a Mac without a notch?

Yes. On a display without one, Eave sits in a small pill at the top center of the screen.

Do I need Spotify, Apple Music or Claude Code?

No. Without them, Eave is still your clipboard history, file tray, volume and brightness. Connect Spotify, Apple Music or SoundCloud to see what’s playing, and Claude Code for usage, the heatmap and task pop-ups. You can connect them any time in Settings.

Why isn’t it on the Mac App Store?

Eave needs a few things the App Store’s sandbox doesn’t allow, like talking to the Spotify and Music apps, SoundCloud’s tab and the volume keys, so you download it from here. It’s signed and notarized by Apple.