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Changelog

What’s new in NotchPulse.

Progress toward 1.0, in the open.

0.1 — in development In development

Not yet released. Internal development builds only.

Foundation

  • Native Swift app with a clean module structure: Core, Platform, Features and UI.
  • Reproducible build script that produces a signed development app.
  • Written contracts for the local API, the Activity schema and license entitlements.
  • Architecture, security, privacy and permissions documented before features ship.

Core

  • Activity engine: one model for every live thing — agents, builds, deploys, payments, timers.
  • Island state machine: hidden, glance, compact, expanded, interactive, attention and celebration. Attention always wins.
  • Local Live Activity API over a user-only Unix socket, and the notchpulse CLI.
  • The island renders around the physical notch, and as a floating pill on notchless Macs and external displays.
  • Claude Code hooks working through the CLI.
  • First idle measurement on a debug build: about 0.02 % of one CPU core and an 18 MB memory footprint with nothing to show. Full profiling of release builds comes later.

Recently added

  • Pip, an original mascot, now stars in every reaction; preview them all in Settings → Reactions & Pip.
  • Notch styles: presets, custom colors and gradients, border glow, roundness and size, with a live preview.
  • Optional notifications in the notch: other apps’ banners appear in the notch instead of the corner (Accessibility, opt-in, nothing stored).
  • A redesigned Settings window with a sidebar, plus automatic updates with a beta channel.
  • Security audit with 18 fixes, and a performance pass: idle and open-notch CPU now close to zero.
  • Free forever, a 7-day Pro trial with no card, and Pro Lifetime that unlocks every Pro feature.

Next

Daily features, the full reactions catalog and workspaces, then the AI Center, developer integrations and Founder mode. See features for what 1.0 will include.