Show HN: Crest, a MacBook notch control room that answers Claude Code prompts

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Crest Suite: Crest, Take and Minutes for macOS. Pay once.

Buying here needs JavaScript<br>Every Get and Try button on this page opens a card checkout that runs in your browser, and there is no version of it that works with JavaScript switched off. So the buttons are not simply dead: email us, say which app you want, and you get a payment link back, then the download once it clears.

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The address is license@crestnotch.app. A trial download needs JavaScript for the same reason, because it goes through an account, and that address will sort one out too.

Crest · Take · Minutes · for macOS<br>A recorder, a notetaker, and the notch that runs them both.

Three native Mac apps that talk to each other instead of the cloud.<br>Pay once, $49.99 for all three, and nothing you record<br>ever leaves your Mac.

Get all three, $49.99<br>Try free for 7 days

No card for the trial, no subscription ever · macOS 14+ ·<br>see what each app does

The notch is the black cutout at the top of every MacBook. This is the real<br>panel, live. Hover it, or just watch.<br>live demo

Finder FileEditView

Hover the notch. This is the real app.

Auto<br>Home<br>Work<br>Code

All modules

Now playing

Night Drive

Chromatics

1:17<br>/ 3:47

Next

Standup

in 26 min

Dark Mode

Mute

Today

3:55<br>Standup: design 4.0

in 3:47

Join

4:30Payout review

7:00Gym

Todo 3

Reply to Paddle<br>Ship 4.0<br>Record demo clip

Clipboard

git push origin main

#FFB000

Shelf

launch-reel.mp4 +2

Record this meeting<br>Standup: design 4.0 · both sides, on this Mac

00:00<br>Record now<br>Stop<br>Saved ✓

Take isn't rolling.<br>⌘⇧2 starts a take from anywhere.

00:00<br>⌘⇧2<br>Pause<br>Cut

Agents

Claude: notch-project

Running tests

4:12

Claude: site

Wants to run: deploy

Allow<br>Deny

Clipboard

NSHapticFeedbackManager.defaultPerformer

System

CPU34%

Memory13.1 GB

Auto<br>Do<br>Ask

your own Claude · no API key

remind me to call the bank at 6, and add finish the deck to my todos

Claude will do

Call the bank<br>Reminder · 6:00 PM

Finish the deck<br>Todo

Hold to talk, or type. Nothing happens until you tap.

Added 2 things ✓<br>Do it

Claude

Try "follow up", or just "get back to you". Both are shorter and sound less corporate than "circle back".

Ask answers in text. Nothing gets added, that's Do.

Crest<br>The notch control room: music, calendar, todos, system stats, SSH hosts, a Claude co-pilot, and the transport that drives the other two.<br>$19.99 once · free tier forever

Take<br>Screen recordings that arrive already staged: backdrop, smoothed cursor, automatic zooms. Edit live, where the preview is the file.<br>$24.99 once · 7 day trial

Minutes<br>Meeting notes written on your Mac by Apple's own models. Both sides of the call, a real summary, and the promises people made.<br>$29.99 once · 7 day trial

How they fit<br>One meeting, through all three.

One standup, one Mac, nothing uploaded. Watch it move.

90 seconds, drawn from the real interfaces. Sound on for the story.

01<br>Crest sees the call coming.

The notch names the meeting and offers to record it. Nothing starts until you tap.

That surface is the Minutes row in the panel at the top of this page.<br>Open Work mode and try it.

02<br>Minutes writes it down.

Both sides of the call, transcribed and summarized by the models already inside macOS.

Use it right here. Play the meeting; catches wait for your tap, exactly<br>like the shipping window.

03<br>The notes land in Crest.

One tap on Send to Crest Notes, and the summary files itself into the notch under<br>Meetings. It moved between two apps and never left the machine.

04<br>Take picks up the demo.

The walkthrough records from the same notch and arrives already staged.

Use the editor right here. Scrub the timeline and the canvas follows;<br>what you are watching is the exported file.

No cloud between them. The apps talk over a local bus on your Mac and<br>file their work into one folder all three can read.

The apps<br>Each one earns its place alone.

Buy the one you need, or take all three.

Crest: the control room.

Music, calendar, todos, system stats, clipboard, and Claude Code<br>approvals, one glance up.

$19.99 once · free tier forever

Get Crest Pro<br>Everything it does

Lives where your eyes already are. Glance up, act, get back to work.

Answers Claude Code from the notch. Allow or Deny without switching windows.

Free tier forever. Pro unlocks every module, once.

Twelve of the modules, drawn live on this page. Hover any tile.<br>The whole catalog is on the Crest page.

Take: the recorder.

Recordings that land already edited, and the preview you scrub is exactly<br>the file you export.

$24.99 once · 7 day trial

Get Take<br>See Take in depth

Staging solved from your clicks. Zooms and idle skips are placed for you.

Edits are objects on a timeline. Drag, retime or delete them, with no render step.

Plain .mov files. No watermark, no library to escape from.

The editor itself is live in the story above: scrub it, drag a zoom,<br>toggle the camera.

Minutes: the notetaker.

Meeting notes written on your Mac by Apple's built-in models, so...

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