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Proximate keeps you informed without pulling your attention away from your work. Instead of forcing you to glance at the menu bar or taskbar, Proximate surfaces notification icons directly next to your mouse cursor — right where your eyes already are. Whether you’re deep in a document, a terminal session, or a creative project, you’ll catch every alert the moment it happens.

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What Proximate Does

Proximate sits quietly in the background and watches the apps you choose. When one of those apps has a new notification badge — an unread message count, a missed call indicator, a build failure flag — Proximate mirrors that badge as a small icon that floats beside your cursor. You stay in flow, and nothing slips through the cracks.
  • macOS: Proximate runs as a menu bar app and reads notification data via the macOS Accessibility API.
  • Windows: Proximate runs as a taskbar app and monitors your pinned and running applications for badge changes.
You’re always in control. Proximate only monitors the apps you explicitly add to your watch list — nothing is tracked without your permission.

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Two Ways to Use Proximate

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Passive Monitoring

For everyday apps — mail clients, messaging tools, calendar apps, CI dashboards — simply add them to your monitored apps list. Proximate handles the rest, detecting badge changes and displaying them near your cursor automatically.

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Advanced Integrations

For power users, Proximate also supports Advanced Integrations (hooks). These let you push custom alerts into Proximate from CLI tools, shell scripts, build pipelines, and AI agents. If you can run a command, you can surface its output as a cursor notification.
Advanced Integrations require no GUI interaction on the monitored side — they’re designed for headless tools, automation workflows, and anything that doesn’t have a native notification badge.

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Pricing

Proximate includes a 14-day free trial so you can explore every feature before committing. After the trial period, a paid subscription is required to continue using the app. You can manage your subscription from within Proximate’s Settings.

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Get Started

Ready to set up Proximate? Start by granting the required system permissions, then choose the apps you want to monitor.

Grant Permissions

Enable macOS Accessibility and Screen Recording for Proximate.

Select Apps

Choose which apps Proximate watches for notifications.

Advanced Integrations

Hook any CLI tool or script into Proximate’s cursor alerts.