Coucou
Coucou is an agent app that shows your AI coding agent sessions in the Mac notch and lets you approve their permission requests for developers using Claude Code and similar tools.
What it is good for
- Approving AI coding agent permission requests without switching windows
- Watching what an AI coding agent is editing and running
- Dictating text by holding a key and pasting it into any app
- Recording calls and getting a transcript and to-do list
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Install a desktop app or browser extension
Level 3 of 5. Download and install it like any other app or extension.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Agent app
- Tasks
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Claude Desktop
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked (last #49, week 41, 2026)
- Best rank
- #2 week 40, 2026
- GitHub stars
- 6,892
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Ranking history
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is Coucou free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (MIT license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use Coucou?
- No. Download and install it like any other app or extension.
- What does Coucou work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, and Claude Desktop.
- What is Coucou good for?
- Approving AI coding agent permission requests without switching windows, watching what an AI coding agent is editing and running, dictating text by holding a key and pasting it into any app, and recording calls and getting a transcript and to-do list.
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