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

Crest, a new Mac app, functions as a notch-based control room that can answer Claude Code prompts, record meetings, and manage notes locally. The app integrates with macOS models to transcribe and summarize calls, with all data staying on-device and shared via a local bus.

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

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.

Open Work mode and try it.

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 like the shipping window.

The notes land in Crest.

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

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; what you are watching is the exported file. No cloud between them. The apps talk over a local bus on your Mac and file their work into one folder all three can read.

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