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Glance up. It’s on it.
Pulse follows every Claude Code session: which file it’s reading, the change it’s making, and how long the job has been running.
Your desk,with a pulse.
A small living island at the top of your screen. It follows Claude Code as it works, asks before anything important, and keeps your music, timers and reminders one hover away.
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Answer without switching windows.
Permission requests, questions and plans land in the island. Allow or deny in one click while you keep doing what you were doing.
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It smiles when the work is done.
A soft chime, a mint glow and a summary of what changed. Fold it away and get back to your day.
Everything else, one hover away.
Move your mouse to the top of the screen and Pulse unfolds. Move away and it folds itself back into a capsule.
Music
Synced lyrics, right in the capsule.
Whatever is playing on your PC, with artwork, seek and controls. While a song plays, the capsule widens and sings along line by line.
- Works with Spotify, browsers and any player Windows knows
- Lyrics are optional and can be turned off
Plan
Notes and reminders, side by side.
Jot a note on the left and set reminders on the right. Type the time the way you’d say it: “in 20 min”, “5pm”, “tomorrow 9am”.
- A month calendar opens from a small icon
- Reminders go off even when the island is folded away
Time
Focus, timers and a stopwatch.
A focus dial for deep work, as many named timers as you need, and a stopwatch with laps. Whatever is running shows in the capsule.
- “Pasta, 10 min” and “Tea, 4 min” can run at once
- A chime and a notification when time is up
Launcher
Your apps, folders and sites, pinned.
Pin what you open all the time and launch it from the island. Drop files onto the page to add them, then rename and reorder.
- Finished downloads land in the Tray automatically
- Clipboard history keeps your last copies close
Ask
Questions, answered by your own Claude.
Explain something, fix spelling, translate or summarise your last copy, or ask about what’s on your screen. Answers come from the Claude Code you already use.
- No extra account or API key
- Nothing is sent anywhere until you ask
Make it yours.
Six ready-made pairs, or pick any main and secondary colour in Settings. Pulse keeps the body dark enough that text always stays readable.
Privacy
Pulse runs on your PC. There’s no account, and nothing leaves your computer unless you ask it to.
Local hooksClaude Code reports to Pulse over a private address on your own machine, protected by a token only the two of them know.
Your own ClaudeAsk uses the Claude Code login you already have. Pulse never sees a password or an API key.
Optional extrasSong lyrics are looked up only while music plays, and you can switch that off in one tap.
Give your desk
a pulse.
Free for Windows 10 and 11. Unzip it, open it, and the island appears at the top of your screen.
- 1Unzip the folderRight-click the zip and choose Extract All, for example into Documents.
- 2Open Pulse.exeThe capsule appears at the top of your screen. Hover it to unfold. Search “Pulse” from the Start button next time.
- 3Connect Claude CodeClick Connect in the island, then restart any Claude Code session that was already open.
- 1Open the .dmgDrag Pulse into Applications. It runs on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
- 2Open PulseThe first time, macOS may block it: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway.
- 3Connect Claude CodeClick Connect in the island. Pulse lives in the menu bar, and ⌘⌥P unfolds it.
Pulse isn’t code-signed yet, so Windows may say “Windows protected your PC” the first time. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
The Mac version isn’t notarized by Apple yet, which is why macOS asks you to allow it once. Allow Pulse to control Spotify or Music when asked, so the music controls work.