A no-subscription In Your Face Alternative for meetings
In Your Face exists because notifications are too easy to ignore: it throws an unmissable full-screen alert before each meeting, recognises links for more than 30 conferencing services, reads Google and Microsoft accounts directly, and runs on Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. It's $3.99 a month, $24.99 a year or $69 once, and needs macOS 14. Notchy's full-screen meeting alert, added in 1.0.179, does the Mac part for a one-time $24.99.
Looking for In Your Face itself? It lives at inyourface.app.
- In Your Face price
- $3.99/mo, $24.99/yr or $69 one-time
- In Your Face requires
- macOS 14 or later
- Notchy price
- $24.99 one-time, 7-day free trial
Why use Notchy instead of In Your Face?
- A reminder you can't miss
A dimmed takeover of every display with the meeting's title, time and a Join button — a minute before by default, or whatever lead time you pick.
- Join, dismiss or snooze
Join opens the call link, dismiss means done, snooze brings it back a minute later. Slept through it? It still appears up to five minutes after the start.
- Only the meetings that matter
Limit the takeover to events with a video-call link. A sticky Join island can also stay on the notch until you join or dismiss.
- Where In Your Face is better
It works on Windows, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch too, recognises 30+ conferencing services and has years of refinement. Notchy's alert is Mac-only and new.
Everything Notchy does, in one app
- 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
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- 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
- Custom islands through the local developer API (off by default)
- iPhone-style call island — Answer/Decline FaceTime on the notch
- Notch Terminal — real VT100/xterm shell in a PTY, its own tab
- Camera Guard — alert (or block) when any app opens your camera
- 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
- 134 languages, fully localized
- Native SwiftUI, tuned for Apple silicon
The honest verdict on In Your Face
In Your Face is the proven cross-platform pick, and if you live on an iPhone and Apple Watch too it's worth paying for. On a Mac alone, Notchy's full-screen alert does the job without a subscription.
In Your Face alternative — FAQ
How much is In Your Face?
$3.99 a month, $24.99 a year or $69 one-time, on up to two devices, with a trial of a set number of free alerts.
Which calendars does Notchy's meeting alert use?
Every calendar in the macOS Calendar app, including Google and Outlook accounts added in System Settings → Internet Accounts, plus .ics links and CalDAV accounts you subscribe to in Notchy.
When is Notchy's full-screen alert available?
In Notchy 1.0.179, the next release. It's off by default — turn it on in the Calendar settings, with a Preview button to see it first.
Does it cover every monitor?
Yes, the takeover dims every connected display.
Is Notchy free?
No. Notchy is a one-time $24.99 purchase for one Mac, with a 7-day free trial and updates included — no subscription or in-app purchase.