Changelog
Every Notchy build, newest first. Updates ship automatically via Sparkle.
v1.0.50build 52
Right-click on the notch works again, Check for Updates always answers, and AI Usage gets a fresh engine — the context menu used to flash and vanish, the update check's reply could be silently swallowed by another island, and usage stats have caught up with the latest provider fixes
- Right-click menu fixed — right-clicking the pill now reliably opens the Settings / Screenshot / Mic / Updates menu; it previously flashed and closed itself before you could click anything
- Check for Updates always answers — the result island ('You're Up to Date', or the update itself) now shows immediately even when another island is on screen, instead of quietly disappearing
- AI Usage accuracy — the usage engine caught up with the latest upstream fixes: weekly pace projections no longer overstate your burn, Claude's live gauges survive transient hiccups without going blank, Codex subagent tokens aren't double-counted, and two new providers (ai&, DeepInfra) arrive
- Usage alerts calm down — a provider parked over your alert threshold no longer re-announces itself on every app launch
- Milestone thanks — Notchy now celebrates what it's done for you ('500 clipboard items caught') with a gentle way to support development from $1
v1.0.49build 51
A new App Launcher tab, searchable clipboard history, and a smoother notch on every display — pin your go-to apps to the notch and launch them with one tap, find any past copy by typing, and enjoy steadier resizing and no more flicker when displays change
- App Launcher — pin your favorite apps to the notch and open them with one tap; add apps from a picker, drag to reorder, and hover to remove
- Search your clipboard history — start typing to filter past copies by their text, an image's name, or even words recognized inside a screenshot
- Smoother panel resizing — dragging the Expanded Panel width and height sliders now tracks your finger cleanly instead of lagging and wobbling behind it
- Steadier on every display — the pill no longer flickers or rebuilds itself when you change resolution or brightness, plug in a monitor, or wake from sleep, and it keeps its state across the change
- Refined GitHub token field in Settings — the API-key row now matches the rest of the settings design instead of a stray native text box
v1.0.48build 50
AI Usage alerts no longer nag — a rate-limit warning near your quota fired again on every background refresh because the rolling session window shifts a few seconds each time, so the same 'near your limit' island kept popping every couple of minutes; alerts now throttle by time and surface once per real window, with a matching fix for the live account-truth gauges
v1.0.47build 49
Live Claude and Codex gauges now stick — a fetched account snapshot survives background refreshes and app relaunches instead of reverting to log estimates, the slow first Claude probe is cached for five minutes, live percentages lead the Overview rows, and every live card shows how fresh its numbers are
v1.0.46build 48
Claude and Codex gauges now show your account's real quota — when the CLI is signed in, Notchy reads live usage over the provider's own login (no API key needed), so the percentages, windows, and resets match the provider's dashboard exactly; local-log estimates remain as fallback
v1.0.45build 47
A productivity toolkit lands in the notch — window snapping, saved snippets, copy-text-from-images, one-tap screenshots, an eyedropper, system-wide mic mute, a keyboard cleaning lock, a presenter keystroke HUD, menu-bar icon hiding, and GitHub PR tracking — plus a big AI Usage upgrade with pace projections and seven new providers
- Drag a window up to the notch to snap it — a zone strip appears (left/right halves, top quarters, full screen) and the window glides into place when you drop it
- Snippets — save what's on your clipboard as a named snippet and paste it anytime from ⌘K; addresses, replies, and code blocks stay one keystroke away
- Copy text from images — any screenshot or photo on your clipboard gets on-device text recognition (no network), so the words inside become selectable text with one tap
- One-tap screenshot, eyedropper, and mic mute in ⌘K — capture a region or window, sample any pixel's hex color, or mute the mic system-wide so every meeting app goes quiet at once
- Keyboard cleaning lock — keys go dead while you wipe, ⌘⎋ brings them back
- Presenter keystroke HUD — the shortcuts you press appear as an island while you demo or record (off by default)
- Hide menu-bar icons — ⌘-drag icons behind a divider and toggle them with a chevron, right from the menu bar (off by default)
- GitHub in the notch — a read-only token shows your open pull requests as a live count with a tap-to-review island
- AI Usage got a full engine upgrade — pace projections that say whether your quota lasts to reset, seven new providers, subscription renewal dates, phantom 0% session windows fixed, and dozens of provider-accuracy fixes
- Every new string ships in all 133 languages
v1.0.44build 46
Native call polish and softer Control Center-style edges — the incoming-call island gets iPhone-style answer and decline buttons with a live self-preview, native Messages and app-call banners are now hidden when Notchy mirrors them, and the panel and cards round off to match Control Center
- The incoming FaceTime island feels like an iPhone call — glossy green and red answer/decline buttons, the answer button bobbing inside a breathing ring while it rings
- The video-call self-preview no longer shows a black rectangle — it appears only once the camera is actually delivering a picture, so a camera FaceTime is already using stays gracefully hidden instead of black
- Native Messages and third-party call banners are dismissed the moment Notchy mirrors them into an island, so you see one notification instead of two
- Softer, Control Center-matched corners — the expanded panel and its cards round off more, and stay concentric with the panel's curve
- Expand on Hover, when turned off, now truly stays off at the notch
v1.0.43build 45
Live system stats in the notch — hover the new gauge for CPU, memory, and network — battery health and cycle count in the battery flyout, right-click any tab to send it to the menu bar, and Low Power Mode now pauses the always-on animations
- System stats at a hover — a new gauge button in the panel header opens live CPU, memory, and network readouts; it samples only while the card is open, so it costs nothing the rest of the time
- Battery health, surfaced — the battery flyout now shows your Mac's battery health percentage and charge-cycle count alongside the time-remaining estimate
- Right-click a tab to add it to the menu bar — no trip to Settings; right-click again to bring it back (the hover tooltip points the way)
- Easier on the battery — Low Power Mode now parks the pill equalizer, marquee titles, and visualizers; the AI-usage refresh slows to five minutes; and the always-on equalizer runs at a lower frame rate everywhere
- Every new string ships in all 133 languages
v1.0.42build 44
In-notch Settings reorganized — a live Liquid Touch toggle joins Shape and Pill Size, the Settings window's titlebar seam and sidebar clipping are fixed, and hairlines, dividers, and corner radii get a pixel pass
v1.0.41build 43
Real Liquid Glass — the expanded panel now renders with macOS's native glass material (the same one Control Center uses), with cleaner cards, calmer hover, and corners that follow the panel's curve
- The expanded panel is now genuine system Liquid Glass on macOS 26 — deep adaptive blur, real lensing and edge lighting from the native material, instead of a hand-drawn imitation
- Cards and rows follow Apple's layering rules — one glass surface with frosted content layers on top (no more glass stacked on glass), so tiles read like Control Center modules over any wallpaper
- Hovering a Home card no longer shimmers the glass — feedback is a soft highlight, the way Apple's own glass responds to the pointer
- Card corners are now concentric with the panel's curve, matching how macOS nests rounded shapes
- Buttons, capsules, and toggles share one untinted glass recipe across the app, so every control wears the same material
v1.0.40build 42
A full Apple-native design pass — system type scale, accent-colored switches, monochrome volume and brightness HUDs, subtler Liquid Glass — plus incoming-call fixes for multi-display setups
- Apple-native design pass — every text size and weight now sits on Apple's type scale (no more half-point sizes or heavyweight labels), and text colors follow the system's four-tier label hierarchy across tabs, islands, and Settings
- Volume, brightness, and keyboard-backlight islands draw a clean white level bar — matching the native macOS HUD instead of a tinted, glowing one
- Switches follow your accent color like System Settings (previously always green), and Control-Center tiles signal On with a filled icon instead of tinted borders and glows
- Liquid Glass surfaces wear hairline edges — the bright double rim is gone, so glass controls read like Apple's own
- Incoming-call fixes — rings now surface on multi-display setups (detection previously watched only the main screen), and answering can no longer leave a stuck “on call” pill when the system's Answer button goes stale
v1.0.39build 41
Check for Updates now answers right in the notch, updates found by a manual check install straight from Settings, and background media-helper processes no longer pile up after force-quits
- Check for Updates, reimagined — the result lands as a notch island (“You’re Up to Date”, “Update Check Failed”, or the update itself) instead of a system alert that could sit invisible behind other windows and freeze the overlay until dismissed
- Settings → About narrates the check live — checking, up to date, or “Notchy X is available — tap to install”; once an update is found the row installs it directly
- A manual check is never silenced — its answer shows even while a Focus is on (background update finds still respect Focus)
- Fixed leaked helper processes — force-quitting or killing Notchy could leave the Now Playing media helper running forever (and they accumulated); shutdown now always cleans up, and any strays from older versions are removed at launch
- Under the hood — the whole codebase now builds with zero compiler warnings after a concurrency-safety pass (command palette state, AI-usage provider engine), and the new update strings ship in all 124 languages
v1.0.38build 40
Call and message islands switched on for everyone, the Cuely teleprompter scroll fixed, Liquid Glass animation and hover fixes, a dedicated Knock settings page with more actions, and full-screen reveal on hover
- Calls & Messages are live — answer or decline FaceTime from the notch, see WhatsApp / Teams / Zoom ringers as islands, and reply to iMessage inline. These shipped dark in earlier builds (a leftover debug gate kept them off); new toggles live under Settings → Notifications
- Cuely actually scrolls again — a layout regression had frozen both auto-scroll and voice-follow since ~1.0.29; voice mode is also far more robust (on-device recognition with automatic server fallback, and a watchdog that recovers a silent recognizer mid-session)
- Liquid Glass fixes — opening the notch no longer flashes the panel shifted to the right (reported on M5 MacBook Air), and hovering Home cards no longer flattens or flickers the glass
- Knock gets its own Settings page — source cards for chassis / trackpad / key, plus seven new actions (Next/Previous Track, Mute, Camera Mirror, Command Palette, Hide/Show Notchy, Start Pomodoro). Chassis detection now works on the newest MacBook Pros
- Hidden in full screen? Touch the top-center of the screen and Notchy slides open over the full-screen app — like the auto-hidden menu bar (works on notch and non-notch Macs)
- Settings window is resizable (the sidebar no longer cuts off), a new Tabs page toggles every notch tab in one Control-Center-style list, every feature keeps one consistent color across the app, and the in-notch Quick Actions add a system-wide color picker
v1.0.37build 39
Real chassis-knock on Apple-Silicon laptops, per-app knock profiles with a card-based action picker, a centered open animation, and a reorganized Settings window
- Knock your Mac — a new chassis-tap knock source reads the built-in accelerometer on Apple-Silicon laptops (no extra permission), joining the trackpad tap and keyboard double-tap. Opt-in, with a sensitivity slider
- Per-app knock profiles — give any app its own single / double / triple-knock actions, picked from a new category card grid (Notchy, Media, Utility, System)
- Opening animation starts centered — the expand no longer begins shifted to one side before snapping into place on ProMotion displays
- Settings reorganized — General is slimmer, Display moved into "Appearance & Display", and Lock Screen lives with Notifications; clipboard shortcuts follow Apple conventions and gain a Reset button
- In-notch Quick Actions — one-tap Caffeine, Screenshot, 25-minute timer, and Lock right inside the notch settings
v1.0.36build 38
Accurate Codex usage with both rate-limit windows, smarter usage alerts, a Liquid Glass expand fix, and a systemwide Apple-style copy polish
- Codex usage is accurate again — the gauge reads the latest event that actually carries a rate-limit window (Codex omits it on many events, which blanked or staled the number), the reset countdown uses Codex's real resets_in_seconds, and BOTH windows (5-hour session + weekly) now show
- Smarter AI usage alerts — each limit warning now fires independently and re-arms every session (they previously shared one throttle, so the app could send at most one alert a day), and the weekly Codex window is watched too
- More AI Usage providers — added Claude API, Doubao, and others, with a more reliable token and cookie resolver so more accounts connect on the first try
- Liquid Glass — opening the notch from the collapsed pill grows symmetrically from the notch instead of sliding in from the side
- Features gallery — Notes, File Shelf, Reminders, Shortcuts, and Camera Mirror are now their own discoverable cards
- Onboarding — when a release adds a new permission, existing users are shown just that one on update (first run still asks up front)
- Copy polish — proper typographer's punctuation, clearer wording, and macOS-matching labels like "Open at Login"
v1.0.34build 36
Knock to open the notch (double-tap a modifier key), resizable expanded panel, feature-tip islands, smoother Apple-style motion, and groundwork for call & message islands
- Knock — double-tap Control (or ⌥/⌘/⇧, your pick) on its own to open the notch, the Shelf, Clipboard, Caffeine, or play/pause; chords like ⌘C never false-trigger
- Resizable panel — set the expanded panel's width (460–760pt) and height (250–400pt) in Appearance, live-previewed while you drag the slider
- Feature tips — a quiet "Did you know?" island every few days teaches one feature with a one-tap Try It; off switch in Notifications settings
- Motion polish — every animation now honors your Animation Speed and Reduce Motion settings, continuous (squircle) corners everywhere, and VoiceOver labels on the new island controls
- Under the hood — an end-to-end regression suite now runs before every release, on both notch and non-notch layouts
v1.0.33build 35
Command palette (⌘K), keyboard tab navigation, a Features gallery, Caffeine in the menu bar, AI-usage alerts, and corrected cost estimates
- Command palette — press ⌘K (or a global shortcut you can set) to jump to any tab, setting, or action with fuzzy search
- Keyboard navigation in the notch — ⌘1–9 jumps to a tab, ← / → cycles, and you can drag the tab chips to reorder them again
- Menu bar — detach any tab (Cuely, Clipboard, Timer, AI Usage…) as a standalone popover, plus a one-click Caffeine keep-awake toggle; fixed items not appearing when toggled on
- AI Usage — clearer setup (add a provider right from the tab), a notch alert when a provider crosses your limit, and corrected cost estimates that use each model's real API pricing (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku — no more Opus over-estimates)
- New Features gallery in Settings — a visual overview of everything Notchy does, one click to configure each
- Lighter battery use (mouse tracking throttled + short-circuits when idle) and a shorter, less repetitive first-run tour
v1.0.32build 34
Remote provider usage in the AI Usage tab, detach any tab to the menu bar, lighter battery use, and tokens now in the Keychain
- AI Usage tab now tracks remote providers too — add an API key or token (OpenAI, DeepSeek, Claude, Cursor, Mistral, and more) and see each provider's rate-limit windows, cost, and credits alongside the local CLI stats. Set up in Settings → AI Usage → API Providers
- Detach a tab to the menu bar — turn on a tab under Settings → General → Menu Bar (e.g. Cuely or Clipboard) to use it as a standalone menu-bar popover without opening the notch
- Privacy: provider API keys and tokens are now stored in the macOS Keychain instead of on disk
- Battery: the notch's mouse tracking is throttled and short-circuits when idle, cutting background CPU during normal use
- AI Usage stats are clearer — real provider icons, per-window labels with reset countdowns, and no more misleading full-width bars
- Settings sidebar reorganized into General, Features, and System groups
v1.0.31build 33
AI Usage tab (Claude + Codex), update-island fix, timer reset, overflow guard
- New AI Usage tab — Claude Code and OpenAI Codex token usage and rate-limit windows, read from the CLIs' local logs (no API keys, no network). Off by default; enable in Settings → Tabs
- Claude shows the 5-hour window with an animated count-up and shimmering bar; Codex shows its real used %, plan, and reset
- Fixed: the update island now installs (it activates the app first); 'What's New' opens the changelog
- Timer running view has a clear Reset button; fixed Timer-tab overflow with a scroll fallback
- Hide toggles for the Charging and Lock/Unlock islands
v1.0.30build 32
Now Playing layout fixes + visualizer, clipboard smart actions, Pomodoro focus stats
- Now Playing: fixed the player width (transport + shuffle/repeat no longer overflow, artwork no longer clips); tap a lyric to seek, with an animated visualizer when a track has no synced lyrics
- Clipboard smart actions — copied links, hex colors, and emails get an inline cue and one-tap open
- Pomodoro focus stats — a daily streak and 7-day mini chart in the Timer tab
- New hide toggles: Charging Island and the Lock & Unlock pill
- Onboarding tour now covers Now Playing and the shelf's compress/resize/Quick Look tools
v1.0.29build 31
Image compress/resize/batch on the shelf, Apple-Music Now Playing redesign, HUD + accessibility fixes
- Compress images to a target size (presets or a custom size) and resize by max dimension, right on the file shelf
- Batch-compress or convert a whole selection at once; spacebar Quick Look on any shelf tile
- Now Playing redesigned Apple-Music style — ambient artwork backdrop, shuffle & repeat, tap a lyric to seek, output switcher, click the art to open the app
- Fixed a double HUD when changing volume from the Touch Bar on macOS Tahoe
- Apple-style volume and seek sliders with a hover scrubber and full VoiceOver support
- Accessibility: Reduce Transparency, more VoiceOver labels, Differentiate Without Color, trackpad haptics, fuller localization
v1.0.28build 30
Battery flyout in the notch, keyboard-backlight HUD, Apple Music favorite + app volume
- Battery flyout in the notch — your Mac, connected peripherals, and AirPods at a glance
- Keyboard-backlight brightness keys now get the Notchy HUD too
- Apple Music favorite (♥) and per-app volume from the Now Playing controls
- Volume-key feedback beep and an Apple-style scrolling title ticker
- Per-calendar selection, media-only fullscreen hiding, scroll-aware edge fades
v1.0.27build 29
133 languages, HUD takeover on macOS Tahoe, pomodoro chaining, custom timer durations
- Replace System HUD now works on macOS 26 Tahoe — Notchy handles the hardware volume and brightness keys itself, so its island stays the only HUD
- Fully localized into 133 languages
- Pomodoro session chaining and custom timer durations, with a chime when the timer ends
- Custom lock/unlock sounds — pick any system sound or your own audio file, with instant preview
- Battery levels for classic Bluetooth headphones and speakers, not just Apple devices
- AirPods island only prompts on a genuine close-range pairing attempt — idle nearby buds no longer re-prompt
- Screenshot shelf detection is now locale-proof, so it works on non-English Macs
- Hold the seek bar to scrub, softer scroll edges, no more spurious “Safe to disconnect” toasts for DMGs and Time Machine, calendar queries off the main thread
v1.0.26build 28
Native-feel polish, new islands, Shortcuts tab
- New Shortcuts tab — run your Apple Shortcuts one-tap from the notch
- New islands: download finished, drive mounted with Eject, device low-battery alerts, screenshots straight to the shelf
- Replace System HUD — only the island shows for volume and brightness, not the macOS overlay
- Pinned clipboard snippets, caffeine “until a time”, shelf zip/unzip
- Settings reorganized Apple-style, with a Control-Center-style notch tab
- More native feel: haptics, Focus/Do Not Disturb respected, smoother liquid glass
v1.0.25build 27
Start Timer/Pomodoro from Settings, Reminders permission fix, cleaner notch glass
v1.0.24build 26
Now Playing tab with karaoke lyrics, Reminders tab, GIF convert
- New Now Playing tab with karaoke-style synced lyrics
- New Reminders tab and stopwatch
- Convert images and videos to GIF right from the shelf
- Audio-output switcher and connected-device battery levels
- Interactive volume/brightness HUDs and one-tap Join for video calls
v1.0.23build 25
133-language localization, AirDrop UX, brightness fixes
- Full localization into 133 languages
- AirDrop: notch-anchored transfers, dead-file filtering, failure island
- Brightness HUD now reliable on manual key presses; artwork flicker fixed
- VoiceOver labels on icon-only buttons
v1.0.22build 24
Liquid Glass UI, localization, accessibility, Settings search
- New Liquid Glass UI across the notch
- Full localization in 9 languages
- Accessibility: Reduce Motion, Reduce Transparency, and Increase Contrast support
- Settings search plus a global hotkey to toggle the notch
- Per-item clipboard delete and destructive-action confirmations
v1.0.21build 23
Hotfix for a crash in packaged builds
v1.0.20build 21
First pass of 133-language localization, UI layout cleanup
v1.0.19build 20
Fixed file drag-and-drop onto the collapsed pill
v1.0.18build 19
Update island, auto-update opt-in, big performance pass
- Update-available island with tap-to-install, plus automatic update checks
- Multi-file shelf: click-to-browse picker and multi-select drag-out
- Performance: image and album-art work moved off the main thread, drift-free timer
- Many Notes, clipboard, and camera fixes; +81 unit tests
v1.0.17build 18
Caffeine and lock-screen hover polish
v1.0.16build 17
Cuely fixes, automatic updates enabled
v1.0.15build 16
Maintenance and stability release
v1.0.14build 15
Near-zero idle CPU
- Idle CPU dropped from ~2.25% to ~0% on an Apple M2 (~13 wakeups/sec to ~0)
- Polling replaced with event-driven updates across the lock screen, pill, and brightness HUD
v1.0.13build 14
Battery optimizations; open-clipboard shortcut now ⌃⌥C (rebindable)
v1.0.12build 13
Stability follow-up to 1.0.11
v1.0.11build 12
Cuely now respects “Hide from Screen Capture”
v1.0.10build 11
Cuely polish — smoother voice scroll, sharper UI
v1.0.9build 10
Cuely — invisible teleprompter in the notch
- New Cuely tab turns the notch into a teleprompter hidden from screen capture — Zoom, Meet, Teams, and OBS audiences never see your script
- Saved scripts library, auto-scroll speed presets, hover-to-pause, hotkeys
- Voice-driven scroll (beta) via on-device speech recognition
v1.0.8build 9
Clipboard shortcuts, notch fixes, Now Playing reliability
- Global clipboard hotkey (default ⇧⌘V) with 1–9 quick-grab and optional auto-paste
- Now Playing media adapter auto-restarts if it crashes — music island no longer vanishes
- Notch fixes: lock toast no longer hides in the camera cutout, pill state recomputes after notifications
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