Stripe MRR on your Mac, without opening the dashboard

You check Stripe more often than you would admit. Not to do anything, just to look. Open the tab, wait for the chart, read one number, close the tab.

That loop costs a context switch every time, and the number was never the expensive part. Getting to it was.

How do you see Stripe MRR without opening Stripe?

Put it somewhere you already look. Notch Metrics renders your Stripe numbers in the MacBook notch, the strip of glass around the camera that every other Mac app pretends is not there. Collapsed, it shows the figures you chose. Hover, and it expands over whatever you were doing. Move the cursor away and it folds back.

There is no dock icon and nothing in the menu bar. The app has one surface, and it exists only while you are looking at it.

What Stripe numbers you get

Seven, each one a widget you place and size yourself:

Number	What it is
MRR	Active subscriptions, each normalised to a month
Revenue	Gross charges in the window, before fees
Active subscribers	Subscriptions in Stripe status active right now
New subscribers	Subscriptions created in the window
Churned subscribers	Subscriptions cancelled in the window
Refunds	Refund balance transactions, as a positive amount
Recent payments	The last ten succeeded charges, with who paid

That last one is the surprise. A feed of the ten most recent payments, with the payer's billing name, sitting beside the headline figures. You see who just paid without opening anything.

Your Stripe key never reaches your Mac

You connect Stripe once, on the web. Paste a key, and it is encrypted with a key unique to that one connection before it is stored. Our server calls Stripe and hands your Mac a normalised series of numbers.

That split is deliberate. A desktop app holding a live Stripe secret key is a laptop you cannot afford to lose, and people lose laptops.

A restricted key with read access to Charges and Subscriptions is enough, and it is safer than a full secret key: a read-only key cannot move money even if it leaked. What the Stripe connector asks for.

Stripe is not the only source

If you take money in more than one place, the notch holds all of it. Revenue also comes from Polar, Paddle, Dodo Payments, Lemon Squeezy and RevenueCat. Sales come from Shopify. Each reports in its own currency and the conversion happens on the way out.

Getting it

Apple silicon, macOS 14 and later. Seven days of everything, with no card, then $9 a month or $49 a year with every connector included.

Download Notch Metrics, connect Stripe, and close the tab.