Amphetamine Alternative: Caffeine on the Notch
Amphetamine is a fine keep-awake utility — one more menu-bar icon doing one job. Notchy's Caffeine lives on the notch pill: one tap keeps your Mac awake indefinitely, for a duration, or until an exact clock time, then auto-disables so you never cook your battery overnight. And it arrives with 30+ other tools, free.
Why use Notchy instead of Amphetamine?
- One tap on the pill
Flip Caffeine from the notch or the menu bar, start it from the command palette, or trigger it with a Knock — whichever is closest to your hands.
- Smarter sessions
Keep awake for 30 minutes, until 6 PM, or indefinitely — with a visible countdown and automatic shut-off so a demo never turns into a dead battery.
- It replaces your whole menu-bar row
Clipboard manager, drop shelf, Pomodoro, AirPods battery, HUDs, AI usage — one free app instead of six single-purpose ones.
At a glance
Everything Notchy does, for free
- Fluid Dynamic Island animations on the Mac notch
- Command palette (⌃⌥K) — every action one keystroke away
- Knock — double-tap a modifier key to open the notch
- AI usage tracker (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot)
- Detach any tab into a menu-bar popover
- Now Playing music controls (Apple Music & Spotify)
- Time-synced karaoke lyrics under the notch
- Mac clipboard history shelf (password-manager safe)
- Drag-and-drop file drop shelf — persists across relaunches
- Zip & unzip files right from the shelf
- Image converter (HEIC, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PDF) + video → GIF
- Run Apple Shortcuts with one tap
- Screenshots auto-staged on the shelf, ready to drag
- Download finished alerts with Reveal in Finder
- USB drive mount island with one-tap Eject
- Apple Reminders quick capture & due list
- macOS Pomodoro notch timer & stopwatch — streaks + 7-day chart
- Resizable expanded panel (width & height, live preview)
- System HUDs (volume, brightness, battery)
- Audio output switcher (speakers, AirPods, monitor)
- AirPods connection manager & battery
- Magic Mouse, Keyboard & Trackpad battery + low-battery alerts
- Quick notes & Calendar widgets
- Camera Mirror (check your appearance)
- Keep Awake (caffeine toggle)
- Teleprompter (Cuely) for Zoom calls
- Focus-aware alerts & native haptic feedback
- Lock screen widgets & hide-the-notch mode
- 133 languages, fully localized
- Native SwiftUI, tuned for Apple Silicon