For the Mac
Claude Code and Codex limits, live in your MacBook notch.
blimb turns the black cutout at the top of your Mac's screen into the place for what you need all day: your AI agents' limits, running sessions, stashed files, copied snippets and music.
No window, no Dock icon. blimb sits where your eyes go anyway: at the notch – the camera cutout at the top of newer MacBook screens.
Closed, it shows small readouts to the left and right that you choose yourself. Move the pointer into it and it opens into a card with your widgets. Move away and it closes. What you would otherwise hunt for across five windows is in one spot.
AI agents
Work with Claude Code or Codex long enough and you hit a limit. blimb shows where you stand before that happens – and what your agents are doing right now.
For Claude, Codex, Grok and your own providers, blimb shows how much of your allowance is used – depending on the provider for the 5-hour window and the week, with the time until the next reset. Closed, every agent is a bar in its own color, showing whichever limit is closest to running out.
blimb uses the sign-in you already have: Claude Code and Codex sign in through their own tools, and the provider's sign-in page opens in your browser. If an agent is not connected, blimb says so instead of showing a guessed number.
Every running Claude Code and Codex session with its project, the program it runs in and how long it has been going. When an agent has worked for a while and then stops, the closed notch briefly shows “✓ project”. One click takes you to the session – in Terminal and iTerm2 straight to the right tab.
Message Claude Code, Codex or a suitably configured provider of your own right from the notch. For Claude and Codex you pick the model, the effort, and whether it is a conversation or work inside a project folder.
Add further agents with a small configuration file – usage from a file or a command, chat through a command or HTTP. Examples are included.
Files and copies
The notch is a holding place for everything you will need again in a moment – files as well as snippets of text.
Drag files onto the notch – it grows toward you and takes them in. blimb keeps a copy under the original name; the original stays where it is. From there you drag files on, share them via AirDrop, Mail or Messages, or apply an action.
Whatever you copied recently is back in the notch – as cards with type, age and the app it came from. Type to filter, pick with the arrow keys, press ⏎ to copy again. Pin what matters.
Music and everyday
Control your music, set a focus timer, glance at the calendar. Each of these is a widget you place on your pages.
What is playing, with its cover. Play, skip, shuffle.
Pomodoro with focus and break. Set the minutes on the ruler.
Temperature and sky for your place.
Keeps the display awake – one click on, one click off.
Processor, memory and disk as rings.
Today and tomorrow, with “Join” for Zoom, Meet and Teams links.
Brightness, volume, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and dark mode.
Also available as widgets: a note, to-dos from your reminders. Calendar, Reminders and Spotify ask for macOS permission the first time.
Customize
You do not have to use any of it. You decide what sits next to the notch and which widgets go on which page.
The preview above shows the chosen contents to the left and right of the closed notch.
More than 30 readouts in four groups: agents, time, day & world, and Mac – from agent rings to a second time zone, a countdown and the moon phase to CPU, battery and keyboard language. With “Automatic” a side shows whatever is running – a timer, a working agent session or Spotify – and then returns to your choice.
Every page is a grid of six columns and two rows. Press and hold, and widgets can be moved, resized or removed – like on a Home Screen. Up to nine pages to swipe between.
Black, Liquid Glass or Clear Glass, with a glass tint if you like. Closed, the notch stays black in every design so it blends into the camera cutout.
Your own shortcut opens the notch, ⌘1–⌘9 jumps to a page, holding ⌘ shows the numbers.
blimb's mascot. You meet it in the app icon and in the settings.
No MacBook with a notch? blimb also sits at the top, bottom or side as a tab that opens into the same card, on the display you choose.
Optional: volume and brightness appear as a bar in the notch instead of the middle of the screen.
Optional: in Zoom, FaceTime, Teams and recordings, others do not see the notch.
No Dock icon, no window. You open the settings from the icon in the menu bar.
What to know before you try it.
Install blimb. It shows your Claude Code and Codex usage limits as live bars in your MacBook notch, so you see how much is left before a limit hits, without opening a terminal or a website.
The notch is the black cutout at the top center of newer MacBook screens that houses the camera. The menu bar runs to its left and right. blimb uses the area around the notch.
Yes. In the settings you choose the position – top, bottom or side – and the display. Without a hardware notch, blimb appears as a slim tab that opens into the same card.
Built in are Claude (through Claude Code's sign-in), Codex (through the Codex CLI) and Grok (weekly usage via the Grok app, which requires the Accessibility permission). You add further providers with a configuration file. You can chat with Claude Code, Codex and any provider of your own that offers a chat.
No. blimb has no account of its own. The agents sign in through their own tools; blimb starts the sign-in, and the provider's page opens in your browser.
macOS 14 or later. The glass designs use Liquid Glass on macOS 26 and later; before that they use the system blur.
Only for the features you use: Calendar and Reminders for those widgets, control of Spotify and Terminal for music and sessions, Bluetooth for the switch in the control widget, and Accessibility for Grok, the ⌘ keys and the media-key display.
Price and download are not final yet. As soon as they are, you will find both here on blimb.app.
blimb is in the works. Download and price will appear here as soon as they are final.
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