macOS notch utility

Look up.
It’s all there.

Clipboard, files, sound, meetings and coding agents — in the notch you already have.

Download for Mac See what’s inside

14 days free · €35.99 a year · Apple silicon

The Airlock panel open under the notch: what’s playing, the controls rail, per-app volume and the week ahead.

the actual panel

What it does

Five things you stop hunting for.

All of it lives in the one panel that’s already on your screen. No window to find, no Dock icon, no second monitor.

Media & sound

Now playing, output device, a slider per app.

one glance

Clipboard

Everything you copied, searchable. Nothing a password manager marks private.

⌘⇧C

Drop shelf

Park a file mid-drag. Drag it back out.

drag up

Today

The next three events, with their join links.

one click

Agents

Answer Claude Code’s gates without leaving your work.

⌘Y
Clipboard history. Searchable, with the app it came from. Nothing marked private makes it in.
A shelf for files. Drag one up, then send it to AirDrop, Downloads, or the Trash.
Arrange it yourself. Drag the blocks into the order you want, and drop the ones you don’t off the rail.
Airlock in arranging mode: Media, System controls, Shortcut map, Calendar and Sound as draggable blocks over a rail of toggles.

If you use coding agents

One more thing, if you write code.

Claude Code blocks on a risky command and waits in a terminal tab you’re not looking at. Airlock asks you here instead.

Risky stays risky. Tinted, and no standing rule can auto-approve it — it asks every time.
It can’t get lost. A waiting gate can’t be hidden or buried.
Keys that work. Shortcut labels appear only once the panel has the keyboard, so a printed ⌘Y is always one that fires.

Don’t run agents? Switch the tab off — everything else works the same.

Atoll repository review NEEDS YOU

You: land the reducer fix and push the branch

git push --force origin notch/ux-backlog-do-first
Deny⌘N Always
Always writes Bash(git push --force *)
Atoll repository review allowed
iterm · just now

Pushed notch/ux-backlog-do-first — moving again.

press approve

While something’s waiting on you, it can’t be hidden, dragged off, or pushed below the fold. Everything else stays out of the way until you look up.

Price

One price.
No tiers, no seats.

€35.99 a year · €3 a month
or €3.99 billed monthly

A subscription because Airlock isn’t finished — it sits on parts of macOS that move, and on agent CLIs that change under it. Cancel anytime; you keep it until the period you paid for runs out.

Download for Mac

14 days free · no card · macOS 26 or later

Do I need a notch?

Yes — Airlock lives in the camera housing, so it needs a Mac that has one: MacBook Pro from 2021, MacBook Air from 2022. When you work with the lid shut, you can let it show on an external display instead.

What if I don’t use coding agents?

Turn the Agents tab off in Settings and it never appears again. Media, clipboard, the shelf and your calendar work exactly the same without it.

Where does my data go?

Clipboard, files and calendar never leave the machine — there is no account to make, no telemetry, and no analytics SDK in the app. What does leave: your licence key and an identifier for this Mac, sent when you activate and again around each renewal — plus album art loaded from your music player’s own servers. Privacy lists all of it.

Can I try it first?

14 days, everything unlocked, no card. Ask within 30 days of paying and you get a refund.

Download Airlock

Notarized by Apple, so it just opens — no right-click, no warning dialog.

Download for Mac

macOS 26 or later · Apple silicon · agents optional