ccnotify for Claude Code: which one is which?

Which projects are called ccnotify?

Everything below comes from each project's own README, source or registry page, read on 2026-10-12 (links in the last section). Star counts and dates are from that day.

ningjiaen123/CCNotify-Windows is a Windows port of dazuiba's script that uses the winotify Python package. Searching GitHub for the name turns up more repositories, mostly with no stars and no description; this page covers the ones with a README that says what they do.

How do I tell which ccnotify I have?

Search the files Claude Code reads hooks from for the word ccnotify. Check ~/.claude/settings.json, and in a project .claude/settings.json and .claude/settings.local.json; foxytanuki's tool writes to the local file by default. Inside Claude Code, /hooks lists every active hook and where it came from.

# macOS, Linux, WSL, Git Bash
grep -n ccnotify ~/.claude/settings.json

# Windows PowerShell
Select-String -Path "$HOME\.claude\settings.json" -Pattern ccnotify

# Installed as a package?
npm ls -g ccnotify
pip show ccnotify

dazuiba's and Helmi's tools both keep a script at ~/.claude/ccnotify/ccnotify.py, so installing one overwrites the other's file. The hook command tells them apart: Helmi's starts with uv run and passes no event name, dazuiba's ends with the event name.

How do the ccnotify tools compare with anotifier?

A dash means the project's README doesn't mention it, which isn't proof it can't. The anotifier row follows the code and docs for version 1.7.1.

Where a ccnotify tool does something anotifier doesn't:

• dmxj/ccnotify lets you approve or deny a tool call from the notification card. anotifier 1.7.1 only alerts you; there is no approval feature in a release.
• Helmi/CCNotify speaks, and it watches tool use (PreToolUse, PostToolUse) for risky commands and errors. anotifier plays a sound or rings the bell but never speaks, and it alerts on turn end and needs-input only.
• dazuiba/CCNotify puts how long the task took in the banner, and its click opens the project in VS Code on macOS. anotifier shows no duration, and its click-to-focus works on Windows only.
• tez-Szymon, daniil4545 and dmxj return you to the terminal when you click a macOS banner. tez-Szymon does the same on Windows and sends iPhone alerts through a web app, so you don't need the ntfy app, and it waits until your computer has been idle for 15 seconds before it forwards one.
• daniil4545/ccnotify can mute permission and idle banners while the window is focused. anotifier has no foreground-window muting; it has snooze and quiet hours, which silence every channel.

Where anotifier covers different ground: Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI and Antigravity CLI alongside Claude Code; desktop toasts on Windows, macOS, Linux and WSL; phone push through ntfy; Slack, Discord, Telegram and generic webhooks; one shared config file; anotifier doctor to check delivery; and no npm dependencies. Which tool fits depends on what you need. If you only use Claude Code on a Mac and want a banner that opens VS Code, dazuiba's script does that with little to install. If you came for ccnotify's Discord hook, the Discord page shows how anotifier posts there.

How do I switch to anotifier, or run both?

To switch, remove the ccnotify hooks first, then run anotifier's setup. Whether a project documents its own removal:

npx anotifier@latest setup    # wires Claude Code and any other agent it finds
npx anotifier@latest status   # confirms which hooks it wrote
npx anotifier@latest test     # sends a test notification down every channel

Restart Claude Code afterwards so it reads the new hooks. Setup adds its own Notification and Stop entries to ~/.claude/settings.json (after backing the file up) and leaves your other hooks alone.

To run both, remember that hooks from different tools add up: if both are on Stop, both fire, and you get two notifications. Give each tool its own channel. This anotifier config keeps ccnotify's desktop banner as the only one and uses anotifier for phone push alone:

{
  "toast": {
    "enabled": false
  },
  "terminalBell": {
    "enabled": false
  },
  "ntfy": {
    "enabled": true
  }
}

Put that in ~/.anotifier/config.json; anything you leave out keeps its default. anotifier's duplicate guard collapses repeated fires of its own hook only, and snooze silences all of anotifier's channels, so neither stops another tool's banner. The ccnotify tools only hook Claude Code, except dmxj's, which also hooks Codex; for Cursor, Gemini CLI and Antigravity CLI there is nothing to double up.

Sources

Each ccnotify claim above comes from the project's own README, source code or registry page, read on 2026-10-12. Projects change, so confirm anything you rely on there.

• dazuiba/CCNotify: README and source
• foxytanuki/ccnotify: README and source, npm package
• Helmi/CCNotify: README and source, PyPI package, changelog
• MoYeRanqianzhi/CCNotify: README
• tez-Szymon/CCNotify: README
• daniil4545/ccnotify: README
• dmxj/ccnotify: README, landing page
• ningjiaen123/CCNotify-Windows: README
• anotifier: the README, docs, and the agent hooks and Claude Code notifications guides

Try it

One command wires every agent you have installed: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, and Gemini CLI.

npx anotifier@latest setup

Other guides

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