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Vibe Island

macOS notch panel that monitors and approves 25+ AI coding agents at a glance

paidOne-time purchase with a free trial included, licensed per Mac (1-Mac and 2-Mac tiers, transferable to a new machine). The exact figure is rendered client-side and is not present in the page source, so it is not recorded here.View full pricing →

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About Vibe Island

Vibe Island turns the notch on a MacBook into a live control panel for AI coding agents. If you run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Droid, or Kiro in background terminals, the usual cost is context switching: you tab through windows to find out which agent is waiting on a permission prompt, which one finished, and which one has been stuck for an hour. Vibe Island collapses that into a single always-visible strip at the top of the screen. Each running agent gets a row showing what it is working on, how long it has been running, and its current status — and when an agent needs a decision, the approval surfaces right in the notch with the diff inline and keyboard shortcuts to allow or deny. Multiple-choice questions from an agent appear the same way, answerable with ⌘1 through ⌘3. Clicking a completed task jumps you straight back to that terminal. Setup is zero-config: one launch auto-detects and wires up a long list of agent CLIs, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Trae, OpenCode, Droid, Qwen, Copilot, Kiro, Amp, and more. The app is deliberately non-intrusive — it never steals focus from the editor or terminal. Licensing is a one-time purchase with a free trial, sold per-Mac with 1-Mac and 2-Mac tiers, and license keys transfer to a new machine.

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Key Features

✓Live agent status in the MacBook notch — task, elapsed time, and progress per agent

✓Approve or deny agent permission requests inline with the diff, via ⌘Y / ⌘N

✓Answer agent multiple-choice questions with ⌘1–⌘3 without switching windows

✓Click a finished task to jump back to its terminal

✓Zero-config auto-detection of 25+ agent CLIs including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Droid, and Kiro

✓Never steals focus from the editor or terminal

✓Localized in seven languages

Vibe Island Pros & Cons

✅ Pros

+Solves a real and growing problem — approval prompts are the main thing that stalls long agent runs
+One-time purchase rather than another monthly subscription
+Agent coverage is unusually broad, so it keeps working if you switch CLIs
+Zero-config setup: one launch wires up everything already installed

⚠️ Cons

−macOS 14+ only, and the notch presentation assumes a modern MacBook
−Pricing is not published in the page source, so you have to load the site to see it
−Per-Mac licensing with concurrent-use limits means a second machine costs more
−Only valuable if you already run several agents in parallel