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Notch
A Dynamic-Island-style overlay hugging the camera notch. Collapses to a compact pill, a dot, or fully invisible when idle - then expands on click.
macOS menu-bar app
Glınt
Claude Code activity, right where you want it.
A lightweight island near your notch - or wherever you park it - that surfaces what your sessions are doing: live status, the current tool, token spend, the plan, and any subagents it dispatched.
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auto-cycling · click to expand
Three surfaces
Park it wherever you glance.
One island, three homes. Toggle each independently - Glint shows the busiest session up front and tucks the rest a click away.
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Floating Pill
A draggable, always-on-top pill you can park anywhere - even over full-screen apps. Drag it once; it remembers where you put it.
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Dock Side
A bar that fills the empty space beside the Dock and expands upward when you need it.
Needs Accessibility to measure the Dock What it shows
Everything the status line knows - at a glance.
Glint reads your local session logs and mirrors exactly what Claude Code is doing, so you never have to alt-tab to check.
Live status
Idle, Thinking, or Awaiting - blocked on you - with the live tool verb, like “Editing NotchView.swift”. Usage-limit lockouts surface too, with their reset time.
Idle
Thinking
Awaiting
Per-turn metrics
Output tokens, cost, and elapsed time - matched to Claude Code’s own status line, and reset on every prompt.
↓ 959 tokens
$0.04 · 25s
Plan
The current TodoWrite checklist, ticking off as work lands.
Read logs
Render island
Polish motion
Subagents
When a session delegates, Glint shows how many agents are out and what they’re on.
exploring writing tests
Context window
A ring that matches Claude Code’s own auto-compact gauge - it turns red past 90%, and 200k or 1M-context sessions both read correctly.
72%
until auto-compactMultiple sessions
The busiest - or most attention-needing - session leads; the rest list in the expanded view, each with its model and reasoning effort, like “claude-fable-5 · Ultracode Xhigh”.
GlintAwaiting · needs you
api-gatewayThinking · 41% ctx
docs-siteIdle
Features
Everything you need, nothing you have to babysit.
Six things Glint quietly does for you - each shown as a real screenshot, not a mockup.
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The live session card
Click any island and the whole session unfolds: model and reasoning effort, the running tool log, tokens and elapsed time, and a context ring that matches Claude Code's own auto-compact gauge.
model + effortlive tool logcontext ring
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Usage meters built in
Session, weekly, and Sonnet percentages with their reset times - read from Claude Code itself, never estimated. Your account, plan, and CLI version sit right below.
Session (5hr)Weekly (7 day)Weekly Sonnet
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Three surfaces, one island
Park it around the notch, float it as a draggable pill, or dock it beside the Dock - each toggled independently. While working, the notch island stops short of your menu bar icons so they stay clickable.
NotchPillDock Side
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Reachable from any surface
Right-click any island for Open Glint, Settings, or Quit - and the panel anchors right below it. Even when a crowded menu bar hides Glint's icon, you're never locked out.
right-click menugear in expanded view
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A subtle nudge when it matters
Optional macOS sounds when work finishes, when a session needs you, or when work starts. Everything is off until you pick a sound - and picking one previews it.
work finishesneeds youwork starts
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One license, yours forever
A one-time $7 license covers two Macs. Activate with a key, manage devices in the Polar portal - and that license check is the only network call Glint ever makes.
$7 lifetime2 Macssessions stay local
Actual Glint screenshots - nothing staged.
Privacy
Nothing ever leaves your Mac.
Glint only reads your local session logs. No accounts, no telemetry - the island is rendered entirely on-device. The only network call it ever makes is validating your license key with Polar; your session data never leaves your Mac.
● reads ~/.claude/projects/**
Requirements
Two things, and you’re set.
macOS
Sonoma 14 or later
Built for the modern menu bar and notch. Menu-bar / notch app - no Dock icon.
runtime
Claude Code
Glint reads the sessions Claude Code writes under ~/.claude, and only shows activity while it’s running.
Install
Distributed as a disk image.
Builds are ad-hoc signed for now, so Gatekeeper blocks the first launch. Clear it once and you’re done.
# after dragging Glint.app into /Applications
# clear the quarantine flag in one go
$ xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Glint.app
$ open -a Glint
⧉ copy commandNo Developer ID or notarization yet - this is expected. Prefer clicking? Launch once, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
Get Glintv0.0.10 beta
Download for macOSor in one line
$ brew install --cask binary-beam/tap/glint⧉ copy command
All releases & changelog → Pricing
Pay once. Own it forever.
One lifetime license, priced like a coffee. No accounts, no subscription - buy on Polar, paste the key into Glint, done.
Glint - Lifetime License Buy Lifetime$15 $7
One-time
$7$15save $8
once · yours forever
Pay once, keep it forever. No subscription - every future update included.
After purchase you'll get a license key by email - open Glint → I have a key → paste it in.
Founder seats
3 / 20 claimed
Included
Everything unlocked - notch, floating pill, dock side
Live status, per-turn metrics, plan, subagents & context
All future updates included (forever)
Activates up to 2 Macs
Multi-session view & notification sounds
Free access to Windows & Linux versions when released
Put Claude Code
right where you glance.
A lightweight menu-bar app that surfaces every session - live, local, and out of your way.