⚗️ In the lab — v0.1, early & honest about it

Live things perch on your notch.

That black bar at the top of your MacBook? Perch turns it into a live-activity surface. Timers, builds, deploys, and music bloom out of the notch — wrapped in a glowing rim you can tint — and anything can drive it from one line of shell.

The Perch tray dropping down from the MacBook notch with live activities — Real renders from the current build — not mockups.

Notch with glowing purple rim — **Resting glow**your rim, your color

Countdown timer on the notch — **Timer**`perch timer 5m Tea`

Progress activity on the notch — **In progress**builds & deploys, live

Completed activity flashing green — **Done**green flash, auto-dismiss

Your terminal is the remote.

No SDK, no config files. If it can run a shell command, it can light up your notch — CI pipelines, cron jobs, Raycast scripts, whatever.

# push a live activity onto the notch
perch push --id deploy --title "Deploying" --detail "api v42" --progress 0.42

# update it in place
perch push --id deploy --progress 0.8

# land it — green flash, gone
perch done deploy

# tea's on
perch timer 5m Tea

# make the rim yours
perch config border-color "#BF5AF2"

✓ Working today

Tintable glowing border with event tinting — progress blue, done green, failed red
Activities: push, update in place, done, fail, dismiss
Countdown timers on the notch
Smart display gating — only shows on a notched MacBook
The whole perch CLI

⚗️ Still in the lab

Hover drop-down tray for glanceable detail
Apple Music & Spotify now-playing
Outlook meeting lead-ups
Live sports scores
Proper signed & notarized download

Want it when it's ready?

Perch is early — the download lands here the moment it installs as cleanly as it looks. Leave your email and be first on the branch.