macOS · floating panel + menu bar
See every Claude Code session at a glance.
A tiny always-on-top panel for your Claude Code sessions — working, waiting for input, or needs your approval. Click a row to jump to the exact terminal tab.
how it works
Hooks report
Claude Code hooks tell Sconce the moment a session starts working, stops, or asks for you. No polling, no scraping.
The panel floats
A quiet always-on-top panel shows every session and its state. Glance, don't tab-cycle.
Click to focus
One click raises the right window and selects the exact terminal or IDE tab — even inside JetBrains.
Works where you work
Terminal.app, iTerm2, and JetBrains IDEs via the bundled Sconce Bridge.
Zero config
Installs its own Claude Code hooks and repairs them if anything drifts.
One tiny binary
Native Swift. No Electron, no daemon farm, no noticeable footprint.
Menu bar too
A status dot in the menu bar when you'd rather hide the panel.
Private by design
Session state is worked out locally — from hook events and the tail of each session's transcript. Nothing ever leaves your machine.
Free core, forever
Detection, panel, click-to-focus: free for good. Optional extras may come later.
install
Up and running in a minute.
Drag to Applications, launch, done — Sconce sets up its own Claude Code hooks.
Using a JetBrains IDE? Sconce bundles the Sconce Bridge plugin — the setup assistant walks you through a one-time install for exact-tab focus.
questions
Does Sconce read my conversations?
Sconce reads the end of each session's local transcript file to tell working from waiting — on your machine, only ever locally. No conversation content is transmitted anywhere.
Does Sconce send any telemetry?
Crash reports only, during the beta — anonymous, with usernames and file paths scrubbed before they leave the machine. Toggle it off any time in the Setup Assistant.
Mac only?
For now. The detection core is platform-clean by design; Linux and Windows are on the roadmap.
How much does it cost?
The core is free forever — detection, the panel, click-to-focus. Optional quality-of-life extras may be paid later.
Which terminals and IDEs?
Terminal.app, iTerm2, and JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm, …) via the bundled Sconce Bridge plugin.