A cheaper Notchie Alternative for Mac
Notchie puts a teleprompter beside the MacBook camera for natural eye contact: hidden during screen sharing in supported apps, pause by hovering over the notch, custom size, font and speed, drag-and-drop script organisation and no data collection. It is $29.99 on the Mac App Store and needs macOS 14.6. Notchy's Cuely tab does the notch teleprompter for $24.99 once, with optional voice-follow scrolling.
Looking for Notchie itself? It lives on the App Store.
- Notchie price
- $29.99
- Notchie requires
- macOS 14.6 or later
- Notchy price
- $24.99 one-time, 7-day free trial
Why use Notchy instead of Notchie?
- $24.99 instead of $29.99
Cuely is part of Notchy, a one-time $24.99 purchase that includes 50+ other tools.
- Voice-follow scrolling
Turn on voice mode and the script glides along as you speak.
- Ventura and Intel
Notchie needs macOS 14.6; Notchy runs from macOS 13 on Intel and Apple silicon.
- Where Notchie is more focused
Hover-to-pause, live preview and a dedicated, minimal prompter UI. If you want one app that only prompts, it's well made.
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 Notchie
Notchie is a tidy, paid, single-purpose prompter. Notchy's Cuely gives you a notch teleprompter with voice-follow scrolling for less, on older macOS too.
Notchie alternative — FAQ
How much is Notchie?
$29.99 on the Mac App Store with no in-app purchases listed.
What macOS does Notchie need?
macOS 14.6 or later. Notchy runs from macOS 13.
Is Notchie hidden during screen sharing?
Its listing says the overlay is hidden during screen sharing in supported apps. Notchy can hide the notch while mirroring or screen sharing.
Is Notchy free?
No. Notchy is a one-time $24.99 purchase for one Mac with a 7-day free trial — no subscription or in-app purchase.