Which one do you need?

If you want your Mac to stop hiding things: music, the next meeting, your todos, CPU and battery, your clipboard, your two-factor codes, your servers, and an AI that can act on them. All of it one glance up, none of it a window.

A borderless panel that hangs from the notch. It never takes focus, never steals a click from your menu bar, and sleeps when your Mac does. The free tier is a real app, not a demo: Pro unlocks the rest, once.

Now Playing Free

Album art, a real scrubber, synced lyrics, the queue and an output picker. Works across Music, Spotify, Safari and any app macOS reports, with a fallback for when it clamps down.

Shelf and Clipboard Free

Drop files onto the notch to park them, then AirDrop, compress or convert them. The Clipboard keeps what you copied, searchable and pinnable, and never keeps passwords.

Claude co-pilot Pro

Ask or dictate. When it suggests reminders, to-dos or events, tick what you want and press Do it; nothing runs before that. Uses your own Claude subscription, no API key to paste.

Agent approvals Free

Claude Code, Codex and Copilot CLI ask permission in the notch. Allow or Deny in one click, over fullscreen apps and on any display, without switching windows. The prompt sticks until you answer, and resting the pointer on it opens the whole command, or the file and the lines it changes. Free, with no account. Crest Pro adds the Agents widget: every running session with what it is doing, and one click to its terminal.

Authenticator Pro

Two-factor codes in the notch, typed in for you. When a site asks for a code in Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave or Edge, Crest offers it, and Fill in types it into the page; anywhere else, Control-Option-K opens your codes. Add a site from its QR code on screen, or import from Google Authenticator, 2FAS, Aegis or 2Stable. Your codes are encrypted behind Touch ID, and they can sync between your Macs, end-to-end encrypted. If Pro ends, they keep working and you can export them. How it works.

Calendar Pro

The next meeting with a one-click Join, a month grid, and adding or editing events that sync wherever your calendar already syncs.

Todos and Notes Pro

Reminders lists you can tick from the notch, and quick notes that stay where you left them, or also land as Markdown files in a folder you choose, for Obsidian or any notes app. Minutes files its meeting summaries straight in here.

System stats Pro

CPU, memory, disk and network, live and readable at a glance rather than buried in Activity Monitor, with the apps using the most memory listed beside them.

Hosts Pro

Your SSH connections, saved once and opened from the notch in Terminal, iTerm2 or Ghostty, and the servers already in your ~/.ssh/config, listed alongside. Keys, ssh-agent, or a password kept in your Keychain, never in a config file.

Batteries and Controls Pro

Your Mac's charge and every Bluetooth device's in one widget, and your switches, speakers and mics in another.

Pages and widgets Free

Now, Home, Work and Code, each a page of widgets you arrange yourself: add from the gallery, stretch one to resize it, drag to move. Swipe between pages.

Take and Minutes widgets Free

Pause, retake and stop a Take recording from the notch, record a meeting in Minutes, and see both clocks while they run. Free in Crest; each one drives its own app.

Focus timer, Weather, Notifications, Pull requests Pro

A focus timer that counts down on the notch, the weather where you are, a notification mirror, and your open pull requests, all in the same notch.

macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on any Mac: without a notch it sits in a small pill at the top of the screen. Light on battery: animations pause on battery and in Low Power Mode. Signed and notarized. See Crest in depth.

If you make demos, tutorials, and your screen on calls: recordings that come out already edited, with zooms, a smoothed cursor and a real backdrop, and one strip to fix anything by dragging. On a call, Take Camera shows that staged screen live.

Screen Studio class staging, native and offline, bought once. A capture is staged the moment it stops, and every part of that staging stays editable on the strip. The preview you scrub is the file you share.

Automatic staging

Backdrop, padding, rounded corners, a true shadow, a spring-smoothed cursor and zooms solved from your clicks. Every capture arrives looking edited.

One strip, one Look panel

Trim with the yellow ends, cut the take into clips, move, add or aim a zoom, and change the backdrop or the padding: the picture updates as you do it. There is no Apply step, because the preview and the shared file run the same compositor. Command Z undoes any step.

Cursor you control

Set how smoothly it glides, and turn on a spotlight that dims everything but the pointer. The cursor is redrawn from its own track, not filmed, so it stays crisp at any zoom.

Blur regions

Drag a box over an API key, an email address or a customer name. It stays on the strip for as long as you set and burns into the shared file, so a demo never leaks what was on screen.

Keystroke display

Shortcuts appear as keycaps while you press them. Terminal and editor tutorials stop needing a voice track just to say what you typed.

Idle skips and speed

Dead air is detected and sped up rather than cut, so the video keeps its rhythm. Keep any span you want at full speed with one tap.

Camera bubble

Your face in a circle you can drag to a corner, recorded to its own file and drawn in when you share. Off by default, because most takes do not want a face.

Mic, system audio and voiceover

Your microphone and the Mac's own sound, with a live level meter before you roll. Talk over a take after you stop and the voiceover sits on the strip.

Captions on device

Written by macOS on your Mac. Click a line to fix a word, and show them in the video if you want them. No upload, no per-minute charge.

Screen, window or area

Record the whole screen, one window, or an area you drag a frame around. Take leaves its own windows out.

iPhone capture and 9:16

Record a cabled iPhone and show it inside its device frame, and switch any take to vertical with the zooms worked out again rather than cropped.

Share that tells the truth

A video (MP4), a GIF or the original take, at 720p, 1080p or 4K, with a size estimate before you start and each step shown while it is made. No watermark on any of them, on the trial or after.

Plain files, open folder

Takes are .mov files in ~/Movies/Take with sidecars next to them. No library database to corrupt, nothing to export out of if you leave.

Pause, resume, retake

Pause mid recording and pick it up, or throw the take away and roll again. A take that started always ends as a playable file.

Runs on any Mac on macOS 14 Sonoma or later, universal for Apple Silicon and Intel. See Take in depth · Take vs Screen Studio · The editor above, full size

If you sit in calls: Minutes records any call, both sides, with no bot joining, then writes the transcript, the summary and the promises on your Mac. Nothing uploaded anywhere.

It records both sides of a call, writes the notes with the models already inside macOS, and pulls out what people agreed to. Nothing is uploaded, because nothing needs to be. Turn off your network mid meeting and it keeps working.

Both sides of the call

Your microphone and the audio your meeting app plays, recorded as two separate channels. Headphones included: it taps the app's output digitally rather than listening to a speaker.

Two-voice transcript

You and them, kept apart by which channel they arrived on, so nothing gets misattributed to the wrong person.

On-device transcription

Apple's speech models, already in macOS. No model download, no API key, no per-minute cost, no audio leaving the Mac.

Summaries and decisions

A readable recap plus the decisions that were actually made, written by the model shipped with the OS and grounded in what was said.

Catches

"Tuesday at ten" becomes a calendar event and "I'll send the build" becomes a reminder, each one shown to you with an Add button. It revises them live when the plan changes mid call, and never adds anything on its own unless you turn that on.

Named by your calendar

A recording takes the name of the meeting it belongs to and lists who was there, instead of leaving you with Recording 47.

Markdown on disk

One folder of plain .md files you own, readable in any editor forever. The catches survive in them, so a saved note stays actionable months later.

Date-spine library

Meetings down the left in the order they happened, with a waveform under each one so you can see where the talking was.

Three themes

Two Lanes, The Record and The Desk. Not colour schemes: three different layouts for the same work, so it matches how you actually read.

Crest handoff

Finish a meeting and file its summary straight into Crest's Notes, one tap, no sync and no account.

Armed by the notch

When a call is about to start, Crest offers to record it. One tap arms Minutes, and the indicator stays visible the whole time it is running.

Honest about the hard case

macOS can starve other apps of the microphone during some VoIP calls. Minutes warns you live if that happens and rebuilds its engine to win the mic back, and the other side records either way.

Needs macOS 26 or later on Apple Silicon, because the transcription and summarization models ship inside the OS. See Minutes in depth · Minutes vs Granola · vs Otter.ai · Local AI note takers · Private, on-device notes · Record a call on a Mac · The meeting above, full size

Every paid plan is Crest Pro, Take and Minutes together. Buy once for $24.99, with updates through Crest 7, or subscribe for $2.99 a month or $14.99 a year, with every update while you subscribe. No subscription is required, and nothing you record leaves your Mac.

A one-time licence works offline and is never switched off, unless the payment is refunded or charged back. A subscription runs while it is paid, with 30 days of grace offline. Each licence covers 2 Macs, prices include tax, and every payment has a 7-day refund. Bought before? You keep free updates for life. The plain facts are on one page.