Which integrations are available for this server?

Enables triggering macOS notifications, system sounds, and text-to-speech functionality, with support for customizable banner notifications, voice selection, and speech parameters.

How do I use macOS Notification MCP?

1. Click on "Install Server". 2. Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state. 3. In the chat, type @ followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@macOS Notification MCP play the Ping sound to alert me when the download finishes" That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed. Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.

🔔 macOS Notification MCP

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants to trigger macOS notifications, sounds, and text-to-speech.

✨ Features

🔊 Sound Notifications: Play system sounds like Submarine, Ping, or Tink
💬 Banner Notifications: Display visual notifications with customizable title, message, and subtitle
🗣️ Speech Notifications: Convert text to speech with adjustable voice, rate, and volume
🎙️ Voice Management: List and select from available system voices
🧪 Testing Tools: Diagnostic utilities to verify all notification methods

Related MCP server: Salesforce MCP

🚀 Quick Start with uvx (Recommended)

The fastest way to use this tool is with uvx, which runs packages without permanent installation:

# Install uv if you don't have it curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh # Run the MCP server directly (no installation needed) uvx macos-notification-mcp

⚙️ Configure Claude Desktop

Add this to your Claude Desktop configuration (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):

{ "mcpServers": { "macos-notification-mcp": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["macos-notification-mcp"] } } }

Then restart Claude Desktop.

📦 Alternative Installation Methods

Standard installation:

pip install macos-notification-mcp

Install from source:

git clone https://github.com/devizor/macos-notification-mcp cd macos-notification-mcp pip install .

🛠️ Available Notification Tools

🔊 Sound Notification

sound_notification(sound_name="Submarine")

Available sounds: Basso, Blow, Bottle, Frog, Funk, Glass, Hero, Morse, Ping, Pop, Purr, Sosumi, Submarine, Tink

💬 Banner Notification

banner_notification( title="Task Complete", message="Your analysis is ready", subtitle=None, # Optional sound=False, # Optional: Play sound with notification sound_name=None # Optional: Specify system sound )

🗣️ Speech Notification

speak_notification( text="The process has completed", voice=None, # Optional: System voice to use rate=150, # Optional: Words per minute (default: 150) volume=1.0 # Optional: Volume level 0.0-1.0 )

🎙️ Voice Management

list_available_voices() # Lists all available text-to-speech voices

🧪 Testing

test_notification_system() # Tests all notification methods

🔒 Implementation Details

⏱️ Rate Limiting: Notifications are processed one at a time with a minimum interval of 0.5 seconds
🔄 Queuing: Multiple notification requests are handled sequentially
🪟 OS Integration: Uses native macOS commands (afplay, osascript, say)
🔌 FastMCP: Built on the FastMCP framework for AI communication

⚠️ Troubleshooting

🔐 Permissions: Ensure notifications are allowed in System Settings → Notifications
⏳ Timing: Only one notification is processed at a time
🌐 Environment: If using the command directly (not uvx), you may need to use full paths