Itsycal Alternative: Your Calendar, One Glance Up
Itsycal is a lovely little calendar — small being the point and the limit. Notchy puts a fast native calendar behind your notch: month grid, upcoming events from iCloud, Google, and Exchange, per-calendar selection, and a one-tap Join for video calls. Free, like Itsycal — with 30 more tools attached.
Why use Notchy instead of Itsycal?
- Events with actions, not just dots
See what's next and tap Join to jump straight into Zoom, Meet, or Teams — no digging through Calendar.app invites.
- Reminders in the same panel
Quick-capture an Apple Reminder and see what's due without opening another app — synced through iCloud via EventKit.
- One glance for everything
Weather, calendar, reminders, and Now Playing share the same notch — plus clipboard, shelf, timers, and HUDs, all free.
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