Use Notebooks on your Mac from ChatGPT or Claude
Word processor. With BCD, ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps can open Notebooks on your Mac, read its window and press buttons or type, from your phone or another computer.
Works on
- MacPartly
Through the app's window, with macOS accessibility: BCD reads what Notebooks shows and presses buttons, types and picks menus. How far it goes depends on the app. macOS asks once to allow it.
- WindowsNo
BCD controls app windows only on a Mac.
- LinuxNo
BCD controls app windows only on a Mac.
About Notebooks
- Version
- 4.1.1
- Installs (last 365 days)
- 377 · #1,384 among Homebrew apps
- Homepage
- www.notebooksapp.com/mac
- Install
brew install --cask notebooks
Try asking
“Open Notebooks and tell me what is on its screen”
“Install Notebooks with Homebrew”
“Quit Notebooks and update it to the latest version”
Questions
Can ChatGPT control Notebooks?
On a Mac with BCD, yes, through the app's window: ChatGPT can open Notebooks, read the buttons and text it shows, press buttons, type and pick menu items. How far that goes depends on how much of its window Notebooks exposes to macOS accessibility.
Does this work on Windows?
No. BCD controls app windows only on a Mac. On Windows and Linux it works with files and commands.
Is it safe?
A new computer starts read-only. Controlling the screen and apps is turned on per computer, and macOS asks once before BCD may control apps.
Try it on your computer
BCD connects ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps to your own Mac, Windows or Linux computer. One computer is free, with 20,000 tool calls a month and no card.
Program data from Homebrew, updated 2026-11-11. Installs are Homebrew's installs on request over the last 365 days.