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Your notch, put to work.
Zubarh turns your MacBook's notch into a live space for the song that's playing, your messages, incoming calls and Claude Code. Hover to open it: your shelf, clipboard, calendar, terminal and timer live there.
Download 1.0.4
Coming soon 1.0.4
English and Turkish. Distributed outside the App Store and notarized by Apple: download it and open it. Installing takes a minute.
You’ll be able to download it here very soon. English and Turkish; notarized by Apple.
A day in the notch
The notch changes on its own. When something happens, it grows down and the text drops below the camera; when it's done, it shrinks back to either side of the camera. Here's an ordinary Tuesday.
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AirPods in
When they connect, you see the device and its battery level. Same for keyboards, mice and game controllers.
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Song changed
The notch grows for a few seconds to show the song title and artwork, then steps aside. Works with Spotify, Music and anything playing in your browser. Swipe left or right with two fingers on the notch to change songs.
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Claude Code asked for permission
See the command without switching to the terminal, and choose “Allow” or “Deny” right in the notch. If you don't answer within 6 minutes, the prompt opens in the terminal as usual.
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Claude asked a question
The options and their descriptions appear in the notch. Click one, or type your own answer. Long questions get a taller box.
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A FaceTime call
The caller's name with Decline and Accept. For FaceTime, phone and WhatsApp calls.
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A message arrived
The notification appears in a box tinted with the app's color; click it to open the chat. If you like, the macOS banner never shows up, and the notification still lands in Notification Center.
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Files on the shelf
Drag a file to the notch and it lands on the shelf. Screenshots are added automatically. The shelf copies text from images, reads QR codes, removes backgrounds, shrinks images and makes PDFs.
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A window snapped into place
While dragging a window, move the pointer to the notch and drop it on one of the half, third, quarter or full-screen cards.
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An app is working your Mac hard
When an app hogs the CPU in the background for minutes, you hear about it, and choose “Quit” or “Ignore” before the fans spin up.
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Time's up
The timer keeps running in the closed notch and tells you when it's done. That's a wrap.
Claude Code, in the notch.
The notch tells you when Claude is working, waiting for you and done. Answer its permission requests and questions without switching to the terminal, and see your plan's limits on Home.
- Status
- “Working”, “waiting for you” and “done”, with the icon of the app you run Claude in.
- Permissions
- When it asks to run a command or touch a file, you see what it wants to do and answer from the notch.
- Questions
- Multiple-choice questions come one at a time; when you're done, all the answers go to Claude together.
- Limits
- How much of your 5-hour and weekly limits you've used and when they reset. The notch warns you at 80% and 95%.
{
"hooks": {
"UserPromptSubmit": [ … "dbx claude working" ],
"PostToolUse": [ … "dbx claude working" ],
"Notification": [ … "dbx claude waiting" ],
"Stop": [ … "dbx claude done" ],
"SessionEnd": [ … "dbx claude end" ],
"PermissionRequest": [ … "dbx claude-permission" ],
"PreToolUse": [ { "matcher": "AskUserQuestion",
… "dbx claude-question" } ]
},
"statusLine": { "command": "dbx statusline en" }
}status line Opus 5.5 · 5h 38% · 7d 61%
Turn the integration on in Settings › Developer; your previous file is kept as settings.json.dynamicbox-backup. Turning it off removes only the lines Zubarh added; your own hooks and status line are left alone. Limits come from what Claude Code already passes to its status line; your account, Keychain and session keys are never touched.
A terminal in the notch
A real shell, one shortcut away from anywhere. The notch grows down the screen; close it and your sessions and running commands keep going.
Shortcuts
- Open or close from anywhere
- ⌃ ⌥ T
- New tab, close tab
- ⌘ T · ⌘ W
- Switch tabs
- ⌘ 1…6
- Select the command you typed
- ⌘ A
The dbx command
dbx run npm run buildShows in the notch while it runs, then ✓ or ✗.dbx notify "Backup done"A notification in the notch.dbx progress 0.4 "Upload"A progress bar that closes at 1.
Good to know
- Up to 6 tabs. Each tab is named after the program running in it: zsh, claude, npm.
- A tab with a running program doesn't close on the first press; press again to confirm.
- Turn on the Terminal tab in Settings › Developer, where you also pick its height and font size.
Hover, and it opens.
Move the pointer to the notch and it opens; move away and it closes. Tabs on the left; the sound mixer, voice notes, mirror and battery in the bar on the right.
Cards in their own colors: music player, calendar, weather, Claude limits, pinned items, timer and menu bar icons. You choose which ones show and in what order, and the layout can change with the app in front. The menu bar card shows the icons hiding behind the notch.
Settings › Home
Pinned apps, websites, folders, files and Shortcuts open with one click. “Running” shows the apps that are open right now. Drag a file onto this tab to pin it; click a Shortcut to run it.
Settings › Pinned
Drag a file to the notch and the shelf opens by itself. Scroll when there are lots of files. “Zip” puts them all in one archive, AirDrop sends them, and “Tools” copies text, reads QR codes, removes backgrounds, converts images, and makes and merges PDFs.
Settings › Shelf, Clipboard & Notes
Recent copies on the left, your pinned ones on the right. Click to copy again. Pinned items survive “Clear” and a full history; drag to reorder them or drop them into another app.
Clipboard history never leaves this Mac.
Presets from 1 to 60 minutes. The countdown keeps going in the closed notch, which tells you when time's up. Turn on the focus guard and the notch gives a little shake if you switch to something distracting like YouTube or Instagram while the timer runs.
Settings › Meetings and Focus › Focus guard
The output device on the left: speakers, AirPods or a display, in one click. Each app's own volume on the right: Safari 35%, Music 100%, Discord muted. Nothing is recorded; only the level changes.
The speaker icon in the top bar
Press the mic and talk. Your note is transcribed on device; copy it or save it to Notes. Recent notes stay on the right.
The waveform icon in the top bar
Set up your way
Open it from the capsule icon in the menu bar. The window works like System Settings: grouped sections and search on the left, a one-line summary on top of each page. It follows your light or dark appearance, and every change shows up in the notch right away.
Language, opening on hover and its delay, swipe gestures, hiding in full screen, opening at login and which tabs show.
Which display the notch appears on, the font (SF Rounded, Avenir Next, SF Pro), open notch size, accent color and the glass look.
Notifications and where they appear, notification text, incoming calls and Dock badges. “Try it” buttons show each one in the notch right away.
How and when the song title shows, with separate switches for music apps, browsers and other apps. Keep Spotify, and keep browser videos out of the notch.
Turn Home cards on and off and reorder them. Pick a layout per app: timer and pinned items in VS Code, only music in Spotify.
Apps, sites, folders and Shortcuts one click away in the notch. Reorder with the arrows and remove with minus; running apps are marked.
Claude Code integration, permission requests, questions, limits and alerts; installing the dbx command; the notch terminal's height and font size.
Everything else
Volume, brightness, charging and download indicators appear in the notch instead of macOS's own. The rest is below.
- Per-app volume
- Spotify at 30%, Zoom at 100%. Switch between speakers and AirPods in one click.
- Menu bar icons
- Icons hidden behind the notch show up in the notch; click one to open its menu.
- Meeting mode
- See which app is using the mic or camera and for how long. Mute the whole system's mic in one click.
- Keep awake
- 15 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours or indefinitely. Turns on by itself during downloads, terminal commands and Claude sessions.
- Downloads
- Download progress shows in the closed notch; finished files can drop onto the shelf.
- Mirror
- A quick look through the front camera before a video call.
- On every display
- On an external display, Mac mini or iMac, a virtual notch appears in the middle of the menu bar. It hides while you watch videos or play games.
- Face unlock Experimental
- When your Mac is locked and the screen wakes, look at the camera and blink. Mac cameras don't measure depth, so it isn't as secure as Touch ID; it's off by default.
Privacy and permissions
Notifications, clipboard history, the shelf, your face data and your password stay on this Mac.
The internet is used only for weather (Open-Meteo), the icons of sites you pin (Google), update checks and license checks (Lemon Squeezy); see the Privacy Policy. Setup explains each permission separately; skip the ones you don't want and those features stay off.
| Permission | When it's requested | What for |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | At the Notifications step in setup | Reading notification and call banners, menu bar icons, window snapping, typing your password on the lock screen |
| System Audio Recording | The first time you turn an app's volume down | Per-app volume (nothing is recorded) |
| Bluetooth | At the Bluetooth step in setup | Telling you when a device connects |
| Camera | The first time you press Mirror or “Set up my face” | Mirror, face unlock |
| Location | When you choose “Use my location” for weather | Weather (not needed if you pick a city) |
| Calendar | When you press “Allow calendar access” | Events |
| Desktop folder | On your first screenshot | Adding screenshots to the shelf |
| Microphone and speech recognition | Your first voice note | Voice notes (on device) |
| Controlling Notes | The first time you save a voice note to Notes | Creating the note |
Install
Zubarh is notarized by Apple. Download it, drag it to Applications and open it: no approvals in System Settings, no Terminal commands.
Download the DMG
Zubarh-1.0.4.dmg, 9.8 MB. One file for both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
The download link is coming here very soon. One file for both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Open the DMG and drag Zubarh to the folder
In the window that opens, drag Zubarh onto the Applications folder next to it.
Open the app
Open Zubarh from Applications. As with any app downloaded from the internet, macOS asks once whether you're sure you want to open it; choose “Open”. The app doesn't appear in the Dock; reach Settings from the capsule icon in the menu bar.
The rest happens in the notch
The notch widens a little and writes “hello” by hand. Choose “Get started” and 15 steps play out inside the notch, each with a small animation of the feature and live permission status. Skip any step with “Skip for now”; you can run setup again later from Settings › About.
SHA-256 (Zubarh-1.0.4.dmg): 4d1a060edebed1a3d26d0e6228cb0dc2e2cebb1bdaacdad443f249d8c74c61de · Check: shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/Zubarh-1.0.4.dmg
Release notes
Zubarh is updated often; here's what changed in each version.
1.0.4
- Premium panel fixed. On the Compact notch size the trial panel ran into the top bar; now the title and buttons sit on the left with the plans side by side on the right.
- The “Premium” label in the top bar shows the days left at every notch size.
1.0.3
- Refreshed setup art. AirPods Pro in the Bluetooth step, and sound waves on both sides of the mic in the camera and microphone step.
- Premium. Try Zubarh free with everything on for 7 days, then continue with a monthly or lifetime Premium plan. The time left shows as “Premium · N days” in the top bar, and you enter your license key in Settings › Premium.
1.0.2
- Automatic updates. When a new version is out, the notch shows “Update available”; choose “Update” to see what's new, and Zubarh updates and relaunches in seconds.
- Turn on silent download and install in Settings › About. “Check for Updates…” is in the menu bar.
1.0.1
- Notarized by Apple. The app and the DMG are notarized, so there's no “Open Anyway” step or Terminal command after downloading.
- Music now works right away in a copy downloaded from the internet.
1.0
- First public release.
- The notch works like the Dynamic Island on iPhone: songs, notifications, incoming calls, AirPods, charging and timers, right below the camera.
- Claude Code in the notch: status, permission requests, multiple-choice questions and your 5-hour and weekly limits.
- Shelf, clipboard, terminal, voice notes, per-app volume, window snapping and a Settings window that works like System Settings. In English and Turkish.
FAQ
Does it work on a Mac without a notch, or on an external display?
Yes. On an external display, a Mac mini, an iMac or a MacBook with its lid closed, a virtual notch appears in the middle of the menu bar. Choose which display it appears on in Settings › Appearance.
Why isn't it on the App Store?
App Store apps have to run in a sandbox. Zubarh's most-used features need to step outside it: reading notifications and incoming calls, seeing what's playing, a terminal in the notch. So it's distributed directly from here.
Does it send my notifications or clipboard anywhere?
No. Notifications, clipboard history, the shelf, your face data and your password stay on this Mac. The internet is used only for weather, the icons of sites you pin, update checks and license checks. See the Privacy Policy.
I don't use Claude Code. Is it still useful?
Yes. The Claude Code part is optional. Skip the “For developers” step in setup and no settings file is touched.
Why don't Claude limits update in VS Code?
Limits come from Claude Code's status line in the terminal, and the VS Code extension doesn't run status lines. The card updates as you use claude in a terminal. Requires a Pro or Max plan.
Which Macs does it run on?
macOS 14 Sonoma or later. One file runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
What happens when the trial ends?
Everything is on for 7 days and no card is needed. When the trial ends, Zubarh locks: opening the notch shows only the Premium panel, and your settings and data stay as they are. The moment you enter your license, everything picks up where you left off.
Can I move my license to another Mac?
Yes. On the old Mac choose “Remove from this Mac” in Settings › Premium, then enter the key on the new Mac. You can use it on as many Macs at once as your plan includes.
How do I cancel my subscription?
In Settings › Premium › “Orders & subscription”, or with the link in your purchase email. If you cancel, Premium stays on until the end of the period you paid for.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. Write to gezersuumur@gmail.com within 14 days of buying and we'll refund you in full. See the Refund Policy.
What are the known limitations?
- Notifications, incoming calls, menu bar icons, window snapping and face unlock need Accessibility access.
- Face unlock is experimental and isn't as secure as Touch ID.
- Claude limits update only on a Pro or Max plan and while
clauderuns in a terminal.
How do I uninstall it?
If you turned on the Claude Code integration, turn it off first in Settings › Developer; that removes Zubarh's hooks and status line. Then quit from the capsule icon in the menu bar and move the app to the Trash.