Ejectify alternative: unmount from the notch, free
Ejectify unmounts your drives as the Mac sleeps and brings them back on wake. Notchy handles the manual half — one click from the notch, with a clear signal when the cable is safe to pull.
| Ejectify | Notchy | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free core · $3.99 auto-eject timer | Free — optional donations |
| Eject on sleep, remount on wake | Yes | No |
| One-click manual eject | Yes | Yes — from the notch |
| Eject all drives at once | Yes | Yes |
| Extra menu bar icon | Yes | No — it lives in the notch |
| Anything beyond disks | No | 50+ tools in the same island |
From Ejectify’s own site, checked against Notchy’s shipping build.
Sleep automation is Ejectify's job, not Notchy's
If you keep closing the lid with a drive attached and keep getting the warning, that is precisely what Ejectify fixes, and its core is free. Notchy does not automate around sleep and this page is not pretending it does.
The other half of the problem
Finding the drive, right-clicking, then wondering whether it finished. Ejecting from the notch is one click and tells you plainly when to unplug.
Compare the two eject apps
Jettison does the same automation for $6.95 and supports much older macOS. Ejectify is free for the core, which makes it the easier first try.
A menu bar slot for one job
Single-purpose utilities each take a permanent icon. Notchy puts eject next to download progress and system stats in space macOS was wasting.
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)
- Searchable clipboard — filter by text, file name, or OCR'd words
- On-device OCR — copy a screenshot, get its text (Apple Vision)
- Window snapping — drag a window to the notch to tile it
- App Launcher — pin apps to the notch, open with one tap
- Text snippets — TextExpander-style pastes from the ⌘K palette
- One-tap screen capture to clipboard + shelf
- Color eyedropper — sample any pixel, hex auto-copied
- System-wide mic mute for every meeting app at once
- Keystroke HUD for demos & screencasts (secure-input safe)
- Keyboard cleaning lock with countdown island (⌘⎋ unlocks)
- Menu-bar icon hiding — Bartender-style separator & chevron
- Live CPU / memory / network stats flyout
- Open GitHub PR count in the notch (Keychain-stored token)
- iPhone-style call island — Answer/Decline FaceTime on the notch
- Notch Terminal — real VT100/xterm shell in a PTY, its own tab
- Privacy Indicator — pill when any app's camera or mic goes live
- Caps Lock HUD — brief island on every toggle
- Full Charge island with adjustable threshold + low-battery sound
- Alt HUD styles — edge-pinned bar or circular gauge off the notch
- Audio-reactive Now Playing visualizer (real FFT of system audio)
- Custom closed-notch idle animation — drop in your own Lottie JSON
- 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
Notchy vs Ejectify — FAQ
Is Ejectify free?
Mostly. Ejecting all drives, ejecting them one at a time and seeing their state live are all free. Only the auto-eject timer is paid, at $3.99 once. Notchy's eject is free with nothing held back, but it does less.
Does Notchy eject drives when the Mac sleeps?
No. Ejectify unmounts volumes as the Mac goes to sleep and remounts them on wake, which is what stops the 'disk not ejected properly' warning. Notchy gives you one-click manual ejects from the notch and does not automate around sleep.
How do I stop 'disk not ejected properly' on Mac?
The warning appears when a drive is still mounted as the Mac sleeps or loses power to the port. The fix is unmounting before that happens — either automatically, which is what Ejectify and Jettison do, or manually before you close the lid, which Notchy makes a single click from the notch.
Ejectify or Jettison?
Both automate ejection around sleep. Ejectify's core is free with a $3.99 timer upgrade; Jettison is $6.95 after a trial and reaches back to macOS 10.13. If you just want free auto-eject on sleep, start with Ejectify.
What does Notchy add?
Ejecting is one tool among 50+ — the same notch also holds media controls, clipboard history, a file drop shelf, timers, system stats and device battery. It is not a disk utility, it is somewhere the disk controls happen to live.
Can I run both?
Yes, and it is a sensible pairing. Ejectify handling sleep and wake, Notchy for one-click ejects and everything else. They do not conflict.
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