Yoink Alternative: The Drop Shelf You Don't Have to Buy
Yoink asks money for a holding area. Notchy turns the dead space of your notch into a free drop shelf that persists across quits and relaunches — and works for you: zip and unzip archives, convert HEIC to JPG offline, turn videos into GIFs, auto-stage screenshots, share via AirDrop.
Why use Notchy instead of Yoink?
- Free, and always where the cursor is
Drag files onto the notch — no window to position, no edge to remember. Items persist until you drag them out, even across restarts.
- A shelf with superpowers
Select shelf items and zip them into one archive, expand archives, convert images between HEIC/PNG/JPEG/TIFF/PDF fully offline, or convert video to GIF.
- Screenshots auto-staged
Every screenshot lands on the shelf as a draggable island automatically — plus the other 30 tools Notchy ships for $0.
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