Changelog
Every Notchy build, newest first. Updates ship automatically via Sparkle.
v1.0.169build 171
Battery care: charge limit, iPhone and iPad levels, and history
- Limit charging to a healthy level, with Sailing Mode, automatic discharge and a one-tap top up to 100%
- See your iPhone and iPad battery alongside your Mac, mouse and keyboard, with full device names
- Battery history charts, temperature, and a warning when an app drains your battery
- New alerts for unplugging and fully charged accessories, with a sound for each, plus an optional menu bar battery
- Minor fixes and refinements — rare freezes at launch, with volume keys, screenshots and Face Unlock
v1.0.168build 170
A safer Face Unlock setup and sharper widgets
- Face Unlock setup no longer crashes on Macs where the animation bundle is laid out differently, and it will not open over the lock screen
- Widgets use their space more effectively across providers, limits and reset dates
- Now Playing and settings sync are steadier around timers, calendar updates and background changes
v1.0.167build 169
A safer Face Unlock setup and sharper widgets
- Face Unlock setup no longer crashes on Macs where the animation bundle is laid out differently, and it will not open over the lock screen
- Widgets use their space more effectively across providers, limits and reset dates
- Now Playing and settings sync are steadier around timers, calendar updates and background changes
v1.0.166
Face Unlock, a Settings guide, and fixes for rare freezes
- Face Unlock — come back to a locked Mac, look at it, and you're in. Guided setup in a minute, and your face and password never leave this Mac
- Settings Guide — a walk through every settings page with quick switches on each stop; replay it any time from About
- Quieter notch — the camera and microphone in-use island is gone; Camera Guard still warns when you arm it
- Fixes — freezes of up to 12 seconds caused by a slow audio device, a busy clipboard app or call detection, and Notchy no longer restarts itself while a dialog is open
v1.0.165build 168
Invisible Until Hover, calendar chip, smoother timer scrubbing
- New "Invisible Until Hover" option fully hides the resting pill until your cursor reaches the notch — music, timers, calls and notifications still show as normal
- Upcoming calendar events now show as a live countdown chip in the notch
- Keyboard cleaning lock is one search away in the command palette (⌘K)
- Fixes: laggy timer ruler scrubbing, menu-bar auto-hide stalling behind parked icons, double-haptic on collapsed press, idle pill overlapping active menu items
v1.0.164build 167
A cleaner keyboard and a calmer menu bar
- Clean Keyboard is now one click away in the open notch — temporarily disable keyboard input for 60 seconds while you wipe the keys
- Choose whether the idle notch hides when menu bar items would overlap it, and find app notification controls together under Notifications
v1.0.163build 166
A steadier notch and smoother system audio flow
- The notch handles audio and system-state changes more reliably, so music, output switches and HUDs stay in sync
- Volume, mute and playback indicators respond more consistently when the system is busy or switching devices
- Minor fixes and polishing across the panel, notification flow and reliability paths
v1.0.162build 165
No more freezes when music starts
- Fixed Notchy freezing and restarting itself when music started or the audio output changed — the audio-reactive bars now start in the background
v1.0.161build 164
Crash reports you can send in one tap
- If Notchy crashes or freezes and restarts itself, the notch offers to send an anonymous report on the next launch — app version, macOS version and where it broke, nothing else
- Choose Ask, Send Automatically or Never in Settings → About, and send any reports you skipped from there
- Dragging a volume, seek or EQ slider no longer flips the open notch to another tab
v1.0.160build 163
Volume in the header, quieter messengers
- A volume button sits at the top right of the open notch — click to mute, hover for a slider and the current output device
- Muting Teams, Slack or Outlook in App Notifications, or turning app notifications off, now stops their message islands too
v1.0.159build 162
Smoother notch curves and a steadier menu bar
- The notch's corners now use Apple's continuous curves, so the closed pill and the open panel read as one shape at two sizes
- Both curves where the notch meets the top of the screen are lit the same — one side no longer shows a faint edge the other lacks
- Hiding menu bar icons no longer makes them blink back before they tuck away
v1.0.158build 161
Turn one app down or reshape its sound, and volume keys that never go dead
- Sound Mixer: turn a single app down, mute it, or shape it with a three-band equaliser without touching the system volume — open it from the chip beside the output picker
- Volume, mute and brightness keys keep working when Notchy is busy or the audio system restarts — a key Notchy can't serve now goes straight back to macOS instead of doing nothing
- The closed pill and the open panel share one silhouette, and the thin line that could show across the top of the screen above the glass is gone
- Minor fixes and refinements — popovers no longer collapse the panel after 10 seconds, Notchy's own sounds no longer count as music playing
v1.0.157build 160
Reach every menu bar icon from the notch, even the ones the bar is hiding
- The Menu Bar card now scrolls, so every status item is one click away — including the ones pushed off the edge or buried behind the notch
- The badge on that card now tells you how many icons the menu bar itself is hiding
v1.0.156build 159
The macOS 27 monochrome look, a grey interface option, and a panel that closes clean over any window
- Monochrome Glass: the desktop behind the panel loses its colour, so the surface keeps its own tone over any wallpaper instead of turning blue over a blue one. It composes with the Look you already picked and the Translucency slider
- Monochrome Interface: icons and accents go grey while artwork and app icons keep their colour, including the Now Playing chrome the app derives from the cover
- Closing the panel with Liquid Glass on no longer leaves a frosted panel-sized slab sitting over the window underneath for a few frames, and the lit top edge no longer snaps back on halfway through the collapse
- Volume, brightness and keyboard-backlight islands now show over a full-screen app — pressing the key used to swallow the system's own indicator and show nothing in its place
- Battery health shows a real figure again. macOS moved the charge capacities into a sub-dictionary of the battery entry, and Notchy read the old location, so health showed as unavailable on Macs that report it fine
v1.0.155build 158
A Now Playing card that fits whatever size you drag it to, and text size that stops the page jumping
- The Now Playing card no longer cuts the top off the artwork and the song title. It measures what fits and drops the volume slider, then the seek bar, instead of spilling out of both ends of the card
- Bigger text stays inside its lines. Titles at a larger app text size had their capitals shaved off across the card, the pill and the lock screen
- Dragging the Text Size slider no longer yanks the Settings page back to the top on every step — the interface redraws once, when you let go
v1.0.154build 157
A Now Playing card that shows the whole song title and a full output button
- Long track titles scroll across the Now Playing card instead of being cut off after twenty characters — the same ticker the Now Playing tab already used
- The audio output button is whole again. It had lost its background and was being sliced by the card's rounded corner, so it read as a stray half-drawn glyph
v1.0.153build 156
Save a video straight from the search field, put macOS banners where you want them, and turn features on from the gallery
- Paste a video link into Quick Search and save the file instead of opening the page. Best quality, a smaller copy, or audio only — no extra tab, no queue window, and Notchy fetches the downloader for you the first time
- macOS notification banners can move. Pick any corner or the top or bottom middle instead of the top right, where a banner lands on the notch and fights with the copy Notchy already shows there
- Cards in the Features gallery actually switch a tab on now. Tapping one used to just walk you to the Tabs page with the feature still off
- Minor fixes and refinements — notification mirroring catches banners macOS opens inside an existing window, the file shelf drops files that have moved or been deleted, and in-call controls, notes and clipboard get a pass
v1.0.152build 155
A slimmer Now Playing pill, lock screen widgets that stay off the password field, and lyrics that belong to the song
- The Now Playing pill is only as wide as what it shows. With just music playing it wraps the artwork and the equaliser instead of stretching a black bar across your menu bar items
- Lock screen widgets keep clear of the login prompt on macOS 26, where the account name and password field sit at the bottom of the screen rather than the middle — and the placement controls only offer strips that actually exist on your Mac
- Lyrics stop guessing. An instrumental or unmatched track now shows nothing instead of a completely different song's words, and album art in Now Playing stays square and sharp with the lyrics open
- Minor fixes and refinements — call mute shown right on the pill, one trackpad click feels like one click, AirDrop straight from the file shelf, tappable notification rows, and the notch opens the instant you hover it
v1.0.151build 154
The Notifications tab stops asking for access it already has
- The Notifications tab no longer says Full Disk Access is needed after you have granted it. macOS answers that question once per app launch and caches it, so granting access while Notchy was running left the tab stuck on the prompt — it now sends you to the right pane and offers a one-tap restart to pick the grant up
- Minor fixes and refinements — permissions
v1.0.150
Lock screen widgets keep clear of your photo and password prompt
- Lock screen widgets no longer land on the login prompt. Notchy was guessing where macOS draws your picture, name and password field, and on some displays that guess sat too high — so the widgets went straight over it. It now keeps a wide berth on every display, whatever the guess says
- A single-strip layout settles at the bottom edge of the lock screen, clear of both the big clock above and the password field in the middle, instead of sharing a band with either
- Minor fixes and refinements — lock screen widget placement
v1.0.149build 152
Muting your mic from the notch can no longer leave you silent — and a stuck mute repairs itself
- Muting from the notch is no longer a one-way door. On the Macs and USB interfaces whose mic can't be muted directly, Notchy turns your input gain down instead — and if it lost the level it was meant to put back, you stayed silent in every app with no way to undo it from Notchy
- A mic left silent by an earlier version repairs itself: Notchy restores your input the first time it starts, and unmuting always puts the level back even when the mute button reports success
- Your level is remembered per device, so muting on AirPods and then disconnecting them no longer leaves those AirPods muted forever while a different mic gets turned up
- Minor fixes and refinements — microphone mute
v1.0.148build 151
Lock screen widgets can be a single strip — and a setting that needs a permission can no longer be switched on without it
- Your lock screen widgets can now be one strip instead of a stack of cards — battery, headphones, air quality, weather and what's playing on a single line across the top, the way a menu bar reads. Pick it under Lock Screen → Layout
- “Notchy Only” keeps its promise on a stubborn banner: where macOS accepted the request to close a banner and left it on screen anyway, Notchy now re-checks four times and falls back to a second method instead of assuming it worked
- Settings that run on a permission can no longer be switched on without it — Incoming Calls, Messages, notification mirroring and Replace System HUD each say what they need and take you there in one click, rather than turning on and quietly doing nothing
- Minor fixes and refinements — lock screen layout, notification delivery, settings permissions
v1.0.147build 150
Notifications mirror to the notch again on macOS 26 — and “Notchy Only” really does take the corner banner away
- Your notifications reach the notch again on macOS 26 — the system changed where it puts a banner, Notchy read every one of them as an old notification from history, and quietly showed none of them
- “Notchy Only” takes the native banner away as it was always meant to: the corner banner used to sit there for its full five seconds with the island beside it, and now it goes in well under a second
- Minor fixes and refinements — notification mirroring now reports what it did with each banner, and repairs itself if a future macOS moves things again
v1.0.146build 149
Pick the font and text size for the whole app, End actually ends the call, and a mirrored notification stops showing up twice
- Choose the font and text size Notchy draws in — System, Rounded, Serif, Monospaced or any font installed on your Mac, with a size slider and a live preview, applied to the pill, the panel and Settings alike (Settings → Appearance → Typography)
- End now really leaves the call, in Teams, Zoom, Slack, Discord and Webex — the shortcut was landing in whichever window happened to be in front, and the apps with no safe leave shortcut had no End button at all. The camera button stops sticking after the first press for the same reason
- A mirrored notification no longer appears twice — some apps, Outlook among them, kept their banner in the corner while the island showed the same thing. Tapping Open now lands on that exact message instead of just bringing the app forward
- Minor fixes and refinements — the in-call row leads with the app's own icon, its controls are evenly sized round buttons, and the row is tall enough to hold them
v1.0.145build 148
Install now starts on the first click, the Lock Screen widgets stay off your clock, and Translate stops blaming a rate limit that isn't there
- Clicking Install on an update works the first time — if a check was still finishing, Notchy handed the click to the updater anyway and it was quietly dropped, so nothing happened until you tried again. The click now waits for the updater and tells you if it can't start
- Lock Screen widgets no longer sit on top of the time — the space reserved for the clock was measured from the date line, not the big clock face below it, so cards landed on the digits and only one of them fit
- Translate keeps working when Google throttles — it now tries four routes and backs off between rounds, and an unreadable reply says so instead of reporting a rate limit that never happened
v1.0.144
Call controls in the notch actually work now — mute, camera and End reach Teams and Zoom, and the call row gives them room and labels
- Mute, camera and End work in Teams, Zoom, Webex and Slack — the keystroke Notchy sent never reached those apps' web layer, so the buttons looked alive and did nothing. Mute also falls back to the app's own mute when your input device refuses to be muted, instead of turning red while you are still live
- The call row is now built for a call: the app and timer on top, a labelled Mute and End on a bar of their own, and a red mic line the moment you are muted — no more three unlabelled dots squeezed beside the clock
- Lyrics timing — nudge lines earlier or later when they drift out of sync with the song
- Minor fixes and refinements — Lock Screen cards fit better, the month grid can take the whole Calendar card, and translation failures say why
v1.0.143build 146
“Notchy Only” now really takes the macOS banner off the screen — including the apps whose banners survived it before — and the Lock Screen cards fit the display instead of being clipped
- Notifications from Teams, Outlook, Slack and Mail no longer show twice — the banner was hidden by a route that quietly did nothing on some Macs, so it ran its full life top-right with the island beside it. Notchy now checks the banner is actually gone and closes it if it isn't
- Lock Screen widgets are no longer cut off at the bottom — the stack is raised as far as it needs to show every card whole, instead of being squeezed into whatever space your placement left
- Minor fixes and refinements — a settings slider whose range collapsed could take the app down when the page drew
v1.0.142build 145
Quick Search takes engines you add yourself, Settings now points out the switches that are on but doing nothing, and the typed tabs teach their own shortcuts
- Add your own search engines — a name and a URL is all it takes, and they join the chips, the bangs and ⌘1–9 alongside the built-ins, each with its real brand mark
- Settings tells you when a feature is inert — a tab switched on without the permission it needs, or with nothing to show, now says so on the page with a one-click fix
- Shortcuts where your hands already are — Translate, Quick Search and Calculator show their key commands along the bottom instead of hiding them in Settings
- Minor fixes and refinements — the panel opens on the first try in full screen and no longer goes black there, hide the notch while mirroring or screen sharing, an honest storage readout, synced lyrics that no longer drift, and Notifications settings split into Calls & Messages and Capture & Files
v1.0.141build 144
Search the web, translate anything and do quick sums straight from the notch — and installing an update no longer closes the password box before you can finish
- Quick Search — type a query in the notch and press return to open it in your browser. Nine engines to pick from, shortcuts like "yt", "gh" and "map" to send one search somewhere else, and a pasted link opens directly instead of being searched for
- Translate — paste anything foreign and read it in your language. It detects the source for you, translates as you type, and Copy puts the result on the clipboard
- Calculator — a tab you type into rather than a keypad: the answer updates as you go, return commits and copies it, and the lines you ran before are still there next time
- Installing an update no longer cancels itself — when the installer asked for your administrator password, Notchy dropped out of the foreground a fraction of a second later and took the password box with it, so the update aborted and the old version came back. The app now stays put for the whole install
v1.0.140
Hovering the notch no longer locks up the Mac, "Notchy Only" really does replace the macOS banner, and the Now Playing title finally uses the whole ear instead of a sliver of it
- Hovering the notch no longer freezes every window — reading the frontmost app's menu bar went through Accessibility on the main thread, so one slow app took the whole Mac down with it. Those reads now run off the main thread with a hard timeout
- "Notchy Only" now really replaces the banner — notifications from apps with an inline reply field (Teams, Outlook, Slack and the rest) kept their macOS banner anyway, so both surfaces showed. The banner is now closed; those notifications offer Open instead of a reply field
- Now Playing shows the track name it measured for — the title was squeezed into half the ear with the other half left blank, so names truncated early ("Netf") beside an empty black gap
- Minor fixes and refinements — notch hover, Now Playing island, idle CPU
v1.0.139build 142
Every AI provider, meeting link and Apple service now wears its real logo instead of a stand-in glyph, Focus modes and Home tiles draw their own icons, and the AI tab tells you when a provider is having an incident
- Real logos, everywhere — 40-odd AI providers ship their own mark instead of an identical chip, a Join button shows the app the meeting will open in, and Apple's services (AirDrop, Home, Shortcuts) use the marks macOS itself draws
- Icons that actually say something — a custom Focus wears the glyph you gave it in System Settings, Home tiles show the light, lock or fan they run, and shortcut chips read their name instead of all showing a play triangle
- Provider incidents on the AI tab — when Claude, Codex or a provider you've added is degraded, the tab says so instead of quietly showing stale numbers
- Your project names and account emails can stay private on screen — mask them for a screen share, while the numbers keep working
v1.0.138build 141
Calls stop stretching the notch and gain their own mic, camera and hang-up controls, incoming calls reach the notch in any language, and you choose whether notifications land in the notch instead of the macOS banner
- A call no longer stretches the notch — the pill was reserving room for the meeting app's name it never drew. It now wears the shape it should: phone glyph and running clock one side of the camera, level meter the other
- Mic, camera and hang up, right on the call island — no more hunting for the button inside the app mid-meeting
- Incoming calls and messages reach the notch from far more apps and in far more languages — Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, Webex, Messenger, Skype and the rest, including calls announced in your own language rather than English
- You choose who owns notifications: the new Notification Delivery setting can hide the macOS banner entirely and put the notification in the notch, which is also the only way to reply inline
- Minor fixes and refinements — tab bar width, message islands, calendar
v1.0.137build 140
Notchy uses far less power around other Bluetooth devices, the panel closes quickly instead of lingering, and first run asks for one permission instead of eleven
- Much lighter on battery in busy places — Notchy was listening to every Bluetooth advertisement around it while waiting for your AirPods, which costs little at a desk and a lot in a lecture hall or a café. It now only listens closely when there is something to listen for
- Closing the notch is quick and clean again — the panel no longer keeps shrinking after its contents have gone, which is what made the close feel laggy and clumsy
- First run now asks for Accessibility and nothing else — every other permission is requested by the feature that needs it, the moment you use it. The full guided setup is still in Settings › Permissions
- Minor fixes and refinements — a new install starts lean with all 34 features listed in the Features gallery, the tab bar keeps its icons readable and moves the rest into a More menu, mute a Teams or Zoom call from the notch, AirDrop from the drop island, restore a single settings page to its defaults, and panel text follows the system text size
v1.0.136build 139
The notch opens without the stall it had on hotkey and knock, a new Minimalistic UI strips Notchy back to the tabs you actually use, and the music ear stops covering the active app's menus
- Opening the notch is immediate again — the panel is prepared ahead of time, so a hotkey, a knock or the menu bar opens as fast as hovering does
- Minimalistic UI: one switch keeps only the tabs you choose, hides the optional header buttons and draws the pill and panel smaller — your other settings are kept
- The music ear now stops beside the active app's menus instead of covering File, Edit and View
- Minor fixes and refinements — hovering the panel no longer dims the app you were working in, and drags belonging to other apps (browser tabs) pass under the notch untouched
v1.0.135build 138
Calmer motion by default with a speed control that finally works, the header can no longer be cut off at any panel size, and a batch of fixes for lock-screen cards, recurring calendar events and the closing notch
- Motion is calmer out of the box, and the Animation Speed slider now reaches the open, the close and every transition — it only affected a handful of loops before
- The header can no longer be cut off: the panel always reserves room for its tabs and buttons, at every width and height the sliders offer
- Lock screen shows every card you enable — they flow into columns instead of stopping after the first one
- Minor fixes and refinements — closing notch glass, recurring calendar events, Home card scrolling, media keys and overnight battery
v1.0.134build 137
The notch now opens as one object — the glass grows with the panel instead of snapping to full size ahead of it — plus overnight battery savings and two controls that were missing
- Opening the notch is one smooth motion: the frosted material grows out of the notch with the panel instead of appearing at full width a frame early
- Longer battery overnight — the pollers that keep the Mac busy during dark wakes park while it sleeps, and only the ones that were running come back
- Standing "always allow" approvals for agent tools can be taken back in one tap from the AI Usage page
- A revealed Wi-Fi password can be hidden again without closing the card
v1.0.133build 136
Eliminated the 130ms double-animation when opening the notch so it opens instantly, plus fixes to the material blur timing
- The notch opens instantly — the panel now pre-mounts on hover, eliminating the double-animation where the notch opened and then the content faded in a split second later
- The frosted glass material settles exactly when the shape lands, preventing blur bleeding past the edge of the panel
v1.0.132build 134
A quick-note card for Home, calls that look the same on every Mac, and a lock screen that never cuts a card in half
- New Quick Note card on Home — type a thought straight into the notch instead of switching to another app; it rides your settings backup and iCloud sync
- An incoming call now wears the same shape whether or not your Mac has a notch, even with music playing
- The lock-screen stack shows each card whole or not at all, instead of slicing the last one through the middle
- Minor fixes and refinements — display brightness, Home cards and the notch chrome
v1.0.131build 133
Home cards can be any shape you like, the month calendar finally gets the room it needs, and selecting text in the terminal no longer flips tabs
- Every Home card can now be Small, Wide, Tall or Large — arrange them into the layout you actually want, from the notch or from Settings
- The Calendar card ships large by default, so the month grid and the day's agenda sit side by side with room to read
- The agenda beside the month grid shows the day you selected, instead of rolling on into next week
- Minor fixes and refinements — terminal text selection no longer pages the panel and confirms a copy, built-in and stubborn displays gain a software dim, and long settings descriptions can be expanded
v1.0.130build 132
Terminal shortcuts and a right-click menu, PDF merging on the shelf, a full calendar card for Home, and displays that can finally be dimmed even without DDC
- The terminal tab takes the shortcuts you expect — ⌘K to clear, ⌘C/⌘V, ⌘F to find, ⌘± for text size — and right-click gives you the same actions as a menu
- Select a few PDFs on the shelf and merge them into one document, in the order you arranged them; images join in as pages too
- A new Calendar card for Home puts the month grid and what's coming up side by side
- Monitors that don't answer DDC — DisplayLink docks and most hubs — can now be dimmed in software, and Settings says which display can't be reached and why
- Minor fixes and refinements — the idle pill size slider on notch Macs, AI spend per day, lock-screen widgets on every display
v1.0.129build 131
Your settings can follow you to a second Mac over iCloud, the Focus switcher lists your real modes again, and two-finger swipes on the notch actually work
- Optional iCloud settings sync — turn it on in Settings → About → Backup and a second Mac comes up configured the way you left this one
- The Focus tab lists your modes again, and swipe gestures on the notch respond to a two-finger trackpad swipe as well as a drag
- Snap zones can wrap into rows you choose per display, so a big set stays easy to aim at
- Minor fixes and refinements — Focus, Weather, Home cards, the header strip and the app launcher
v1.0.128build 130
Incoming calls sit properly under the camera on notch MacBooks, and Notchy can now tell when an update fails to install
- On notch MacBooks the incoming-call island centres in its card instead of clinging to the camera cutout with empty space beneath it
- Update checks report whether they succeeded, failed, or stalled part-way — anonymously, and only ever a step name and an error code
- Minor fixes and refinements — notch layout, updates, analytics
v1.0.127build 129
The selected-tab pill is neutral and contained at every tab count, and diagnostic probes for the right-to-left expand
- The selected-tab highlight is a flat white wash instead of a second glass layer — it no longer picks up your wallpaper's colour through the tab bar's own glass
- At high tab counts the pill caps its height to the cell width, so it stays a capsule instead of a bright disc that overhangs the bar
v1.0.126build 128
Every app's notifications land at the notch — reply to Teams and Outlook without leaving your work, and see what's unread at a glance
- Notifications from any app — Outlook, Teams, Slack, anything — appear as islands at the notch instead of the far corner of a wide display
- Reply inline to Teams, Outlook and Slack the way you already could to iMessage, straight from the island
- A new Unread card on Home counts what's waiting in Outlook, Teams, Mail and anything else that badges its icon
- Mute app by app: one noisy work app can be switched off without silencing the rest
- Fixed a pill that showed an app — Telegram most often — as playing when nothing was; a silent app can no longer claim the notch
- Minor fixes and refinements — Camera Guard, world clock, file chips, localisation
v1.0.124build 126
A configurable pill clock, real region recording, Focus that lists your modes, and a Calendar that shows every event
- The clock on the closed pill is yours to shape — time, date or both, five date formats, optional seconds
- Record a region of the screen by dragging it out, snap windows into per-display zones (thirds, quarters, columns), and see external monitor brightness on the monitor itself
- Calendar shows all-day events again — birthdays and holidays no longer render an empty tab — and Focus lists your modes instead of nothing
- Arranging Home is direct now: cards move when you push them, the grid resizes without drifting from the cursor, and the panel closes when you look away
- Fixes: screenshot and app pickers come to the front, hover labels are configurable, reminders can be renamed, Keep Awake keeps the panel open
v1.0.123build 125
The notch picks up macOS 26's newest glass, its symbols come alive, and a camera light for the header
- Every glass surface wears the newest edge treatment — a darker rim with a brighter highlight riding it, so the panel separates from whatever is behind it
- Icons on the island move the way the system's do: they morph when they change, beat once when something finishes, and breathe while work is still running
- A camera button in the header, green while any app has your camera — and Camera Guard, which tells you the moment one opens it
- Live numbers roll instead of jumping — the clock, countdowns, gauges and prices — and the selected tab now flows from tab to tab
- Fixes: dragging a card's edge no longer runs past what your display can show, file and app pickers take clicks again, and arranging Home no longer fires the card you touch
v1.0.122build 124
The notch closes when you walk away — plus a lighter, quieter app and a Settings search that finds the actual switch
- The panel closes again: a hover that was never released could leave it open forever, with nothing able to collapse it
- Lighter on the battery — a background call check was sweeping the screen every two seconds forever, and the notch recomputed its geometry on every mouse move
- Settings search now searches the settings themselves, not just page names: type a switch's name, or misspell it, and it takes you there
- The battery and system cards drop under their own button, and the header stops jittering as the cursor crosses it
- Minor fixes and refinements — the closed-pill clock is now off by default, clock cards, header chrome
v1.0.121build 123
The feedback board, built — sixteen requests shipped, every keyboard shortcut working again, and lock-screen lyrics that actually fill the screen
- Sixteen requests from the feedback board: a clock in the notch, switching Focus instead of only showing it, screen recording, a HomeKit tab, a Calendar tab, folders in the app launcher, drive space in System, a default tab, and a panel that sizes itself to the tab you're on
- Every keyboard shortcut works again — five hotkeys were competing for one handler, so whichever registered first swallowed the rest. External-display brightness and its HUD are fixed with it
- Full-screen lock-screen lyrics fill the screen properly: artwork and words flank the login field instead of crowding into a quarter-height band with the cover cut off — and they are on by default now
- A Menu Bar card that reaches any menu-bar icon from inside the notch, including the ones the camera cutout hides
- Minor fixes and refinements — Siri island, stock colours and company logos, lock-screen widget order, Home cards, panel sizing, Settings
v1.0.120build 122
A call now wears the notch the way iPhone does, and now-playing can clear itself when you pause
- An ongoing call settles into the notch itself — phone glyph and running clock on one side of the camera, a live level meter on the other — instead of a banner pinned across the pill for the whole call
- New “Hide When Paused” in Now Playing: the track clears about half a minute after you pause, and comes straight back when you press play
- Minor fixes and refinements — island ranking, Settings, VoiceOver labels
v1.0.119build 121
Fixes Home cards being clipped at the panel edge on notch Macs, sharpens every button press, and makes Settings search actually find things
- Home cards no longer get sliced off at the bottom of the panel on Macs with a notch
- Buttons answer the press instantly and crisply — the play/pause and skip controls now respond on the way down, not after
- Settings search finds multi-word queries like “clipboard limit”, and lists results in sidebar order
- Minor fixes and refinements — notch chrome, Activity, VoiceOver labels, icons
v1.0.118build 120
Fixes a crash that stopped Notchy launching at all on macOS 13 and 14, adds YouTube Music control, and gives the timer a proper duration dial
- Notchy launches again on macOS Ventura and Sonoma — it crashed a couple of seconds after opening, every time, so the app could never be reopened. The AI cost-usage store asked the system to verify which queue it was on using a check those releases do not have
- YouTube Music: the scrubber, shuffle, repeat and 👍 now work with the desktop app, through its own companion server — macOS's media controls never reported its position properly
- Set a timer by dragging a ruler instead of tapping ±1 / ±5 — the scale moves under a fixed marker, with a tick of haptic feedback per minute
- Liquid Glass everywhere it belongs: the panel, its cards and the lock-screen widgets now share the system material, with six looks to choose from in Settings
v1.0.117build 119
Notchy is quieter when you are not using it, agent turn costs are accurate, and the panel no longer flashes as it closes
- Lower idle CPU and fewer wake-ups — two background checks were doing real work every couple of seconds: one walked every running process to see whether a call app was open, the other parsed every Bluetooth advertisement in range on the main thread
- No more brief flash at the top of the notch as the panel finishes closing — the pill turned see-through for a few frames before the blur behind it was ready
- Claude Code turn costs are no longer overstated — a turn's usage was counted once per content block instead of once per request, inflating the figure by roughly 1.8x
v1.0.116build 118
Menu Bar Hider stops pinning a processor core, your calendar shows what you are in right now, and lyrics play on the notch itself
- Turning on Menu Bar Hider no longer pins a CPU core — a settings write that re-triggered its own handler had Notchy re-applying every service in a loop, forever
- The calendar card now shows the meeting you are in — how much of it is left — plus a timeline of the whole day, not just what is coming up
- Song lyrics appear on the notch while music plays, one line at a time
- The expanded panel has a height slider and a Compact button, so you can put it back to the small size
v1.0.115build 117
Music in the notch now costs a fraction of the CPU it did, so your Mac stays cool and quiet while you listen
- Playing music no longer heats the Mac: the notch used around ten times more processor than it needed for as long as anything was playing
- The equaliser and the artwork ring are drawn the efficient way now — they look the same, they just stop working the whole notch to do it
- Animations behind a closed notch stop instead of running unseen, so an open-then-closed panel leaves nothing burning in the background
- Minor fixes and refinements — call detection stays off the main thread, and the Timer mascot loads at the size it is drawn
v1.0.114build 116
Select files in the shelf by dragging a box, flicks that go where you throw them, and missing icons restored on older Macs
- Drag a box across the shelf to select several files at once, the way you would in Finder — Shift or Command adds to what you already picked
- Swipes and flicks now follow through: a quick flick opens, closes or changes track without having to drag the whole way
- Icons that were blank on macOS Ventura are back, including the Shortcuts tab
- Minor fixes and refinements — the notch gives against your finger at its limits instead of stopping dead, panels grow out of the button that opened them, and every tab has its own colour again
v1.0.113build 115
Stocks gets its own tab and clearer charts, and the notch stops flashing black when it closes
- Stocks has a tab of its own — the whole watchlist with company names, the day's move and a chart big enough to read
- Stock charts are far easier to see: a filled curve, a marker on the current price, and a line showing where the day started
- Hovering the stock ticker in the notch now swaps to the price instead of cramming a second line into the chip
- Minor fixes and refinements — the notch no longer flashes a black box as it closes, the Terminal tab opens ready to use instead of blank, and tapping a message banner opens the reply field instead of jumping to Messages
v1.0.112build 114
Stocks in the notch with price alerts, calls from Teams and Zoom, and the notch stops closing on you
- A Stocks watchlist with a live ticker in the notch, and an alert when a price rises above or falls below the line you set
- Teams, Zoom, WhatsApp and FaceTime calls get a proper island with a running duration — and stop showing up as music
- The panel no longer closes itself a second after you open it
- Minor fixes and refinements — QuickTime playback no longer vanishes mid-track, phantom players are gone, and agent approvals plus AI Usage are on by default
v1.0.111build 113
AI spend forecasting, a knock you can calibrate, smarter clipboard actions and Markdown teleprompter scripts
- AI Usage projects what you'll spend, shows which project and model the money went to, and says when today's pace meets your limit
- Knock stops firing on trackpad clicks and scrolls, and a new Calibrate meter tunes it to your own tap
- Copy a phone number, JSON or a sum — one tap to call, format or get the answer
- Minor fixes and refinements — Escape closes the panel, Cuely reads Markdown, and the 5-hour window is back in AI Usage
v1.0.110build 112
Your weekly AI limit is visible everywhere, a dedicated Lock Screen settings page, and a smoother closing animation
- AI Usage shows the weekly cap alongside the session one, and warns you on whichever limit is tightest
- A Lock Screen page in Settings, with a switch for every card — including the now-playing player
- The panel closes smoothly instead of stuttering on the way down
- Minor fixes and refinements — duplicated rate-limit rows, settings organisation, and clearer sign-in messages
v1.0.109build 111
Energy ranking, what's plugged in, world clocks and break reminders — plus \"free port 3000\" from the command palette
- Top Processes can rank by energy instead of CPU, so you can see what's really draining the battery
- A Devices card showing what's plugged in and the speed each one actually negotiated
- A World Clock card, and Look Away / Stand Up break reminders that stay quiet while you're in a call or away
- Keep the Mac awake with the lid closed, and free a busy port straight from the ⌘K palette
v1.0.108build 110
Camera and Reminders now ask macOS for permission properly instead of sending you to System Settings
- The Camera tab's Allow button raises the real macOS permission dialog — on older Macs it opened System Settings and never asked
- The Reminders tab no longer gets stuck saying access is off when macOS never actually asked you
- \"Ask me again\" on a blocked permission clears the old answer so macOS can prompt one more time
- Buttons in the pill stop staying lit after the cursor moves away
v1.0.107build 109
Controls in the notch panel work again after you grant a permission, and the panel opens and closes smoothly on Intel Macs
- Buttons, toggles and tabs in the panel respond again — granting a permission could leave the whole panel unresponsive to clicks
- You can type in the Terminal tab without popping it out into a window first
- Now Playing clears when you quit the app that was playing, instead of showing a track that already ended
- Smoother open and close on Intel Macs
v1.0.106build 108
The panel no longer stays open after you drop a file on the notch or remove one from the shelf
v1.0.105build 107
Permission prompts now appear on macOS Sonoma, where asking for camera, microphone, calendar or speech access could silently do nothing
v1.0.104build 106
Dragging a file onto the notch holds it open until you drop — no more flickering open and closed
v1.0.103build 105
Better help when macOS won't show a permission prompt — Notchy now tells you why and can relaunch itself to apply a reset
v1.0.102build 104
Permission prompts now appear on older Macs that used to send you to an empty Settings page
v1.0.101build 103
The music island no longer sticks around after a chat video is closed
v1.0.100build 102
Set how wide the open panel is, and playback speed now reaches videos playing in your browser
- Pull the open panel in to any width you like, in Settings → Appearance
- The speed chip now controls video playing in Safari, Chrome and Arc
- Choose which AI providers the Usage tab shows, and in what order
- Minor fixes and refinements — phantom music island, lyrics and Reset All Settings
v1.0.99build 101
The visualizer bars now move with the actual music, plus podcast and audiobook controls on the island
- Equaliser bars ride the real audio — a live read of what's playing, on by default
- Long-form controls for podcasts and audiobooks: ±15s skips and a 1×–2× speed chip
- Full-screen lyrics on the lock screen, washed in the album art's colour
- Minor fixes and refinements — Siri island, music island and feedback mail
v1.0.98build 100
Notchy now runs on Intel Macs — one universal download for every Mac — plus shuffle and repeat on the music island
- Intel Macs are supported: the download is now a universal build that runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel
- Shuffle and repeat controls on the Now Playing tab
- Set how long the panel waits before it collapses, in Settings → General
v1.0.97build 99
The music island is one solid black shape again — no more grey wash across the artwork end while a song plays
- Music with no album art no longer washes the island grey at the artwork end
- Album colour now tints only the area under the artwork, never the whole island
- Minor fixes and refinements — island activity bubble sizing, and a single donation destination
v1.0.96build 98
The AI usage widget refreshes on a tap and shows every account — quota, spend and balances — and AI usage is now on for everyone
- Tap refresh right on the widget and Notchy refetches every account
- Widgets now show spend, balances and plans, not just the busiest bar — with a new extra-large size that fits every account
- AI usage is on by default, so the tab and its widgets work out of the box
- Minor fixes and refinements — refreshed provider engine with new providers, and island alerts no longer cut their text off mid-sentence
v1.0.95build 97
Permission setup keeps up with you — it ticks over the moment you allow something, and comes back on its own when macOS restarts Notchy mid-setup
- Allow a permission in System Settings and the card updates and moves on by itself
- Setup resumes where it left off when macOS restarts Notchy to apply a grant
- The steps that restart Notchy say so before you tap Allow
- Minor fixes and refinements — clicks inside What's New and setup, full-screen reveal, GitHub PR glance removed
v1.0.94build 96
Notchy can finally ask how it is doing — a one-tap star rating in the notch, and asks that stop once you have answered
- Rate Notchy from the notch — five stars, one tap, no window and nothing to dismiss
- Rate it low and Notchy never asks for money again — it asks what to fix instead
- Say hi by email — a line back to the developer is now an ask in its own right
- Minor fixes and refinements — support prompts ask sooner but back off faster, and go quiet for good once answered
v1.0.93build 95
The island sizes itself to what it is carrying again, the lock glyph moves beside the notch, and lyrics open alongside the lock-screen player
- Islands size to their content — a short alert is a short pill, not a full-width slab
- Locking shows a small glyph beside the camera instead of a banner below it
- Tap the lock-screen player to open synced lyrics beside it
- Siri on the notch: a shortcut to summon it and a live island while it is on screen
- Minor fixes and refinements — lock island after wake, notch position on display changes, Messages replies, and a faded-glass island finish
v1.0.92build 94
Song ID and every other live activity now show up on MacBooks with a notch, and five more cards join Home
- Song ID on notch Macs — the listening mark and anything else running now sit either side of the camera instead of hiding behind it
- Five new Home cards — Reminders, Shortcuts, Shelf, AI Usage and Focus
- Smoother closing — the panel settles straight into whatever is playing or running rather than blinking through an empty pill
- Minor fixes and refinements — media controls, sliders, Focus reading
v1.0.91build 93
Four new Home cards to choose from, and every card now fits whatever slot you put it in instead of running out of room
- New cards — Battery, System, Timer and Clipboard join Home, alongside Now Playing, Weather, Camera, Up Next and Daily Activity
- Any arrangement fits — cards adapt to the space they get, showing fewer details in a half-height or narrow slot rather than cutting content off
- Clipboard card — your last few copies, click one to put it back on the clipboard
- Minor fixes and refinements — Home cards, card layout
v1.0.90build 92
Home gets a visual layout editor with a column picker, and the equaliser bars stop freezing when the audio tap hears nothing
- Home — a live preview of the grid in Settings › Home: click a card to move or remove it, and choose one, two or three columns
- Equaliser — the bars fall back to their animation instead of sitting still when the system audio tap picks up silence
- Minor fixes and refinements — Home layout, now-playing visuals
v1.0.89build 91
Home is yours to arrange, and the closed notch is properly black again instead of picking up a tint from your wallpaper
- Home — choose which cards appear and the order they sit in, from Settings › Home; Daily Activity joins Now Playing, Weather, Camera and Up Next
- The notch — the closed pill is true black, so it no longer shows a faint colour seam where it meets the notch and the menu bar
- Minor fixes and refinements — Home layout, island rendering
v1.0.88build 90
The screen around the notch is fully clickable again, and the equaliser bars now move with the music you're actually hearing
- Click-through — the strip of screen below and beside the closed notch no longer swallows clicks, so menu bar items and window buttons under it work
- Equaliser — with Audio-Reactive Bars on, the bars in the island move with the real audio levels instead of a canned animation
- Minor fixes and refinements — click handling, now-playing visuals
v1.0.87build 89
The notch opens as one object every time — even with a timer, a download or AI usage on the island — and the Shazam mark stops getting clipped on a Virtual Notch
- Opening — the panel grows out of the island as a single surface whatever the island is showing, instead of cross-fading when an activity is running
- Virtual Notch — live activities are sized to the pill they sit in, so the Shazam mark is no longer cut off at the top
- Click-through — the area around the notch stays clickable at all times; the window no longer resizes itself around the animation
- Minor fixes and refinements — island geometry, window handling, glass surfaces
v1.0.86build 88
Opening and closing the notch moves on a new spring, the Activity rings stop overlapping their own numbers, and terminal notifications finally look like they came from a terminal
- Motion — one shared spring language across the whole app, so opening, closing, resizing and every island settle the same way
- Activity — the rings no longer crowd the percentage in the middle, and Move reads as distance, goal and steps instead of two unit systems at once
- Notifications — an app that names itself now shows its real icon, and finished shell commands wear a terminal badge with a readable command name
- Minor fixes and refinements — ring layout, island glyphs, build warnings
v1.0.85build 87
On a MacBook with a notch, the panel grows straight out of the island instead of sliding in from one side — and full screen stops opening it by accident
- Opening the notch — the panel expands evenly from the island on notch Macs, the way it already did on the pill designs
- Full screen — Notchy waits for you to rest at the top edge before sliding out, so crossing it to reach the menu bar no longer opens the panel
- Quieter notch — a new option keeps timers, downloads and other activities off the closed pill, leaving them in the expanded panel
v1.0.84build 86
The panel opens smoother — a full frame rate the whole way, no black-then-glass flash — and the hover player stops clipping its own artwork
- Opening the notch — the panel holds a full frame rate the whole way and no longer flashes from black to glass as it opens
- Peek on Hover — the player card is sized for its own controls, so the artwork is no longer cut off at the top on smaller island sizes
- Settings — pages scroll under a frosted titlebar instead of running over the window buttons
v1.0.83build 85
Music takes the island the way the Dynamic Island does it — artwork one side, equaliser the other, a second activity in its own circle — and hovering drops a real player
- Two-object island — a timer, download or build running beside your music detaches into its own circle next to the bar, on notch Macs and pill designs alike
- Now Playing — album art rides one side of the camera with the equaliser on the other, and a ring around the artwork fills as the song plays
- Peek on Hover — hovering the island drops a player with the scrubber and transport, on by default, and it no longer hides the artwork it used to replace
- Minor fixes and refinements — centred panel opening, agent approval islands, terminal startup, FaceTime self-preview
v1.0.82build 84
Your day closes three rings in the notch, lifetime milestones celebrate the real ones, islands can be heard as well as seen, and the expanded island lists every activity
- Activity Rings — movement, typing and focus close as three rings you can watch all day, with streaks and perfect days behind them
- Milestones — a marathon of cursor travel, a novel’s worth of keystrokes: real thresholds, celebrated once, never round numbers picked to fire often
- Island Sounds — pick what an approval, a call, a timer or a battery warning sounds like, each on its own
- Expanded Island — pull the island open and every running activity is a row: what it is, what it’s doing, how far along
- Minor fixes and refinements — AI usage pacing, session estimates, terminal and settings
v1.0.81build 83
The notch follows Apple\u2019s own Dynamic Island rules \u2014 compact chips, a Clock-style timer, a centred open animation \u2014 and the panel closes when you walk away
- Dynamic Island Chips \u2014 live activities read like Apple\u2019s now: glyph and value in the activity\u2019s tint, sized to their content, rolling digits, no boxes inside boxes
- Music While Closed \u2014 the closed notch always shows album art and the amplifier, and hovering reveals that same strip instead of a second, different player
- Opens From The Middle, Closes By Itself \u2014 the panel now expands symmetrically from centre, and a panel opened by a knock, hotkey or the menu bar collapses on its own
- Timer Rebuilt \u2014 a Clock-style dial with the finish time inside, controls beneath it, and restart presets beside it
- Minor fixes and refinements \u2014 island styling, menu-bar popovers, battery icons and the support nudge
v1.0.80build 82
The agent approval island works again, the panel can no longer lose its tab bar, and menu-bar popovers close when you click away
- Approve/Deny Island Restored \u2014 1.0.79 retired the prompt microseconds after raising it, so it never appeared; it now stays until you answer it
- Answered In The Terminal \u2014 granting a permission in your terminal clears the notch prompt within a second instead of leaving it pinned
- No More Hook Errors \u2014 Notchy restarting made Claude Code print \"hook error\" into your session; the forwarder never fails its run now
- Tab Bar Can\u2019t Be Pushed Off \u2014 a tab whose content ran long (Now Playing with lyrics) shoved the tab bar off the top of the panel and clipped the sides; every tab is now pinned to the space the panel offers
- Menu-Bar Popovers Auto-Close \u2014 clicking away, or switching apps, dismisses a detached tab instead of leaving it over the desktop
- Steadier Pill \u2014 the collapsed pill sized itself from one snapshot while drawing its chips from another, so a chip arriving mid-layout drew outside the glass
- Clearer Agent Chip \u2014 a raised hand and the project name instead of an unexplained sparkle
- Widget Fixes \u2014 the widgets now load at all (the extension had the wrong entry point), and the AI Usage widget fits its rows instead of clipping the first and last
v1.0.79build 81
Desktop widgets, AI usage that matches the reference engine window for window, Apple-Watch activity rings, and a terminal that finally looks like one
- Desktop Widgets — AI Usage, Activity and Timer widgets you can drop on the desktop or in Notification Center, kept current by the app even while the panel is closed
- AI Usage Parity — pace projections, run-out risk, per-provider spend lines (today/7d/30d, balances, top model) and window labels now match the reference engine exactly; verified against its own CLI
- Cursor Fixed — the Cursor tab sat on \"No scored commits yet\" while its account data was already fetched; it now shows the live quota, as do Antigravity and Copilot
- Multiple Accounts — two logins on the same provider are two cards instead of one silently replacing the other
- Activity Rings — rebuilt to Apple\u2019s proportions: staggered sweep-in, closed-ring pop, and a true over-100% wrap
- Terminal Chrome — a real title bar with the shell and working directory, a clear button, and a restart banner when the shell exits
- Agent Islands — approving in the terminal now retires the notch prompt instead of leaving it pinned, and any island can be swiped up to dismiss
- Quieter Notifications — opening Notification Center no longer replays old WhatsApp and Telegram banners onto the notch
v1.0.78build 80
Apple's real glass on every standalone surface, accurate AI usage totals, .lottie support, and an agent that only interrupts when it's actually blocked
- Glass Everywhere — the command palette, lock-screen widgets, menu-bar popover and settings sidebar were painting flat opaque slabs; they now use the same system material as the notch, so they sit next to Spotlight and Control Center without looking heavier
- Live Controls — nine buttons across the tabs and islands were dead flat next to their pointer-reactive neighbours; they all respond now
- Accurate AI Usage — headline totals come from the usage engine instead of a local log scan, which was under-reporting Claude and showing nothing at all for Codex
- Animated Stickers — custom idle animations now accept .lottie bundles, not just raw JSON
- Fewer Agent Interruptions — the agent island asked for input when nothing was actually waiting on you; it now only fires when the agent is genuinely blocked
- Hover Player — opening the peek player no longer flashes opaque black before the material settles
- Motion Discipline — hand-rolled animations route back through the shared motion system, so Reduce Motion and Low Power Mode are honoured everywhere
v1.0.77build 79
A much faster launch, a rebuilt hover player, and a batch of interruption and animation fixes
- Faster Launch — the first frame is drawn before background services boot, cutting startup by roughly 40%
- Lighter Idle — the call-detection sweep and window-space queries were running far more often than they needed to
- Rebuilt Hover Player — the peek player is now a real Now Playing card with artwork, a seek bar and transport controls
- Idle Animations Keep Running — a custom Lottie animation could stop and never restart
- Snappier Panel — the tab list and localization lookups are memoized instead of being recomputed several times per frame
v1.0.76build 78
Multiple live activities side by side, a first-run permission fix, and a batch of lifecycle bugs that left features silently dead
- Multiple Live Activities — music, a timer, a running build and a download now sit side by side on the pill instead of fighting for one slot; the pill widens to fit and ranks by what costs most to miss
- Terminal No Longer Blocks Notifications — a long-running command used to take the notification slot invisibly and swallow every island behind it until it finished
- First-Run Permission Fix — the macOS “Allow” dialog appeared behind the onboarding panel and couldn’t be clicked; the overlay now steps aside for system prompts
- Calls & Messages Work Without a Relaunch — granting Accessibility during onboarding left both islands dead for the whole session
- Voice Mode Actually Stops — turning off Cuely’s voice mode mid-session left the microphone open; turning it on mid-session did nothing at all
- Now Playing — a previous track’s blurred artwork no longer lingers behind a song that has none
- Honest AI Usage Alerts — Claude’s “at N% of rate limit” warning was reading the clock, not your usage, and fired every session window; duplicate Codex alerts are gone and failed refreshes now say so
- External Display Brightness After Sleep — the wake handler was registered on the wrong notification centre and never ran
v1.0.75build 77
Enhanced panel key window activation, Lottie animation caching, downloads watcher performance, and E2E test suite reliability
- Accessory Panel Click Reliability — instant key window ordering on app activation to eliminate dropped clicks when floating over un-focused apps
- Lottie Animation Caching — pre-warmed Lottie asset cache and optimized idle view rendering for buttery smooth notch animations
- E2E Reliability — resilient status polling guard against transient socket errors during test runs
v1.0.74build 76
Engineering audit & quality cleanup, swiftlint zero-warning compliance, and test suite stabilization
v1.0.73
Increased panel vertical clearance eliminating card clipping, lag-free header layout optimization, smooth notification islands, and 100% test suite verification
- No Bottom Card Clipping — expanded panel default height set to 316px with bottom padding safety so Home cards and tab items sit with full vertical clearance
- Lag-Free Header Rendering — eliminated 60Hz preference listener re-evaluations during notch expansion for smooth 120fps opening transitions
- Butter-Smooth Island Notifications — streamlined notification mounting animations to prevent runloop stutter and frame contention
- Full Test Coverage — 823 automated unit and E2E tests verified green
v1.0.72build 74
Glitch-free notch collapse animation, multi-account Antigravity profile tracking, top tool breakdown chips, and dynamic severity gauges
- Glitch-Free Notch Collapse — removed static container width pin so panel content scales and fades out smoothly without visual pops or overflow clipping during collapse
- Multi-Account Antigravity — automatic profile directory scanning across primary and sub-accounts with active profile indicators and step stats
- Top Tool Breakdown Chips — tracks AI tool calls (terminal commands, file edits, file views, grep searches) with visual tool badges
- Dynamic Severity Gauges — high-visibility Green/Yellow/Red rate-limit indicators across Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Antigravity
v1.0.71build 73
Fixed content shell width constraint, eliminating left-to-right sliding, header reflow, and opening lag
- Fixed Content Width Pin — pinned expanded tab shell to fixed target width so tab bar, chrome buttons, and cards reveal symmetrically without horizontal sliding or reflow
- Frame 1 Tab Bar Pre-Calculation — tabSlotWidth falls back to exact panel width on initial layout frame for zero-jump header rendering
- Synchronous Frame & Visibility Sync — removed 1-frame runloop latency when state expands to .expanded
v1.0.70build 72
Instant 60ms hover response, zero-delay content fade-in, faster spring curves, and 120fps lag-free opening across all Mac displays
- Instant 60ms Hover Response — cut hover trigger delay from 180ms to 60ms for 3x faster initial notch opening response
- Zero Content Delays — eliminated 140ms and 120ms artificial layout delays so content emerges in lockstep with the glass surface
- Snappier Motion Curves — tuned expansion spring (0.28s) and collapse spring (0.36s) for ~20% faster opening and closing transitions
- Crisp Notification Pop — optimized island damping for clean single-settle volume/brightness HUDs without rubbery wobbles
v1.0.69build 71
Global codebase-wide button hover elevation fix (eliminating offscreen drop shadow box clipping over video layers & glass cards)
- Global Button Hover Fix — replaced heavy 9pt drop shadow with clean Apple-style brightness elevation and tight 3pt shadow across all button styles (PressableButtonStyle, BumpyButtonStyle, GlassActionButtonStyle, LiquidGlassButtonStyle), permanently fixing square box clipping over camera video layers and glass surfaces
v1.0.68build 70
Home tab camera mirror card dark mode shadow box artifact & double-hover darkening fix
- Camera Tile Shadow Box Fix — replaced gray-tinted lens shadow with a tight black drop shadow to eliminate the square gray halo box artifact around the camera icon
- Clean Hover Lift — removed duplicate PressableButtonStyle from HomeMirrorCard so it matches sibling cards with unified hover lighting and zero dark clipping on hover
v1.0.67build 69
Home tab camera mirror card responsive layout & glyph scaling fix for all MacBook screen resolutions
- Camera Tile Scaling Fix — tuned WebcamGlyph sizing and added vertical padding inside HomeMirrorCard to prevent the camera icon and label from clipping against card rounded corners on 13-inch and 14-inch MacBook screen resolutions
v1.0.66build 68
Smooth 120fps notch expanded opening animation (eliminating content clipping & sliding glitches), dark mode Home tab camera card render fix, and AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer bounds sync
- Smooth 120fps Expanded Opening — full tabbed expanded shell now defers content opacity until the glass surface finishes morphing center-out, completely eliminating content clipping and sliding glitches on expand
- Home Tab Camera Card Fix — guarded an infinite animation loop on the camera status pip that caused visual flickering over dark mode glass cards
- Camera Preview Bounds Sync — updated AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer layout handling to continuously sync layer bounds during SwiftUI transitions
v1.0.65build 67
Terminal activity dev server filter (ignoring yarn start, npm run dev, vite, and long-running daemons) plus 5-minute auto-decay cap
- Persistent Dev Server Filter — terminal activity island now automatically ignores long-running dev servers and watch processes (`yarn start`, `npm run dev`, `vite`, `next dev`, `cargo watch`, `python -m http.server`), preventing them from taking over the Dynamic Island for hours
- 5-Minute Auto-Decay Cap — shell command islands auto-dismiss after 5 minutes so background processes never lock out resting Dynamic Island states
v1.0.64build 66
Resting music pill cleanup (song title & artist hidden when closed), 120fps smooth peek bar expansion with zero lag, and lock screen card height un-clipping
- Clean Resting Music Island — resting music pill hides song title and artist text when closed, presenting a clean Dynamic Island with album art and live animated audio visualizer bars
- Zero-Lag Peek Bar Expansion — fixed peek player card expansion so opening full Notchy uses 120fps spring animation with deferred tab rendering (no layout lag)
- Lock Screen Widget Un-Clipping — removed height clipping from lock screen cards so all enabled widgets (timer, calendar, weather, battery) display fully without truncation
v1.0.63build 65
Lock screen widget positioning fix (preventing overlap with native macOS clock & timer) and TransportButton hover glyph rendering fix
- Lock Screen Widget Positioning Fix — corrected band top offset calculation so lock screen cards sit comfortably below the native macOS clock and timer
- Transport Control Hover Polish — refined play/pause, next, and back button hover states so white glyphs stay crisp and bright without dark shadow blur
- Now Playing Hover Peek — hovering over the music island now seamlessly drops the peek player card with full playback controls
v1.0.62build 64
Now Playing resting island fixes (album art & animated audio visualizer bars visible by default at rest), peek bar top-down expansion, full click-to-expand, and responsive transport controls
- Album Art & Audio Bars Resting Visibility — now-playing resting island now displays album art and live animated audio visualizer bars by default whenever media plays
- Peek Bar Top-Down Expansion — fixed hover peek bar expansion to open smoothly from the top without left-to-right reflow or text sliding
- Click-to-Expand — clicking anywhere on the peek bar surface instantly expands Notchy fully into the tabbed shell
- Interactive Transport Controls — fixed previous track, play/pause, and next track buttons on the peek bar to execute actions reliably
v1.0.61build 63
Notchy 3.0 Engineering & Design Overhaul: AI Usage Dashboard with CodexBar feature parity, rate limit gauge rings, live reset countdowns, interactive stacked charts, unified motion engine, and Lottie fixes
- AI Usage Dashboard & CodexBar Parity — complete analytics overhaul featuring rate limit gauge rings, 1s live reset countdowns, usage pace badges, and Keychain-backed account security for 60+ AI providers
- Interactive Usage Charts — stacked bar analytics supporting Daily, Weekly, and Monthly view modes with interactive hover tooltips (input/output tokens, cost, requests)
- Unified Motion System — standardized springs, transitions, and hover curves across the Dynamic Island and Settings
- Lottie & Download Progress Fixes — Lottie animation lifecycle fixes and instant download completion toasts without lingering
- Redesigned 6-Category Settings — consolidated sidebar categories (General, Appearance, Features, Notifications, System, About) with instant search
v1.0.60build 62
Animation polish and a new hover-peek player — the notch now opens with a snappy, smooth drop (no lag, no sideways slide even while music plays), and a new optional mode reveals a minimal now-playing player with controls when you hover the notch during a song
- Snappier, smoother open — the panel starts moving the instant you open it and settles cleanly with no bounce
- No more sideways slide — the notch dropped in from the side when a song was playing; it now drops straight down
- New: Peek on Hover — turn it on (Now Playing settings) and, while a song plays, hovering the notch drops down a minimal player with the track name and previous / play-pause / next controls, then tucks away when you move off
v1.0.59build 61
A big polish-and-fix release — the notch now opens and closes with a smooth, premium drop (no bounce or corner-snap), plus a stack of fixes to clicking, the terminal, the lock screen, notifications and more, and two new touches: hover-peek now-playing and at-a-glance feature discovery
- Premium open/close — the panel drops out of the notch with a smooth, settled spring and its corners morph instead of snapping; closing no longer bounces
- Home & edge tabs clickable again — with many tabs enabled the first (Home) and last tabs sat just outside the hit area and did nothing on click; fixed
- Clicks around the notch restored — a collapsed panel could leave an invisible strip that ate clicks across the top of the screen (and could feel like a freeze); the window now always shrinks back
- Calendar Join works — the one-tap Join button on a meeting was dead; it now reliably opens the call
- Fewer false AI prompts — Claude Code's idle “waiting for your input” nudge no longer pops a permission island when nothing is actually being asked
- Lock screen tidied — with many widgets enabled they could overlap the password field; they’re now kept clear of it
- Notifications open the app — tapping a mirrored notification (Teams, etc.) now brings the app forward
- Terminal no longer blank or cut off — it repaints reliably as the panel settles at its final size
- Custom idle animation fixed on notch Macs — a Lottie animation was hidden behind the camera; it now sits beside it, with a new horizontal-offset control
- Colour-coded volume/brightness HUD now actually applies, and the download island no longer sticks on “downloading” after a download finishes
- New: Peek on Hover — keep the notch minimal while music plays and reveal now-playing only when you hover it
- New: Feature discovery — the Features page now shows which capabilities are off so you can find what you haven’t turned on
v1.0.58build 60
A smoothness pass — the notch opens faster and interactions stay fluid, plus a terminal fix
- No more mid-animation stutter — the FaceTime call detector was running a system-wide sweep on the main thread every couple of seconds (worse with multiple monitors), briefly stalling the app; it now runs off the main thread and less often, which also trims idle CPU and battery use
- Snappier open — the panel springs to full size in about a third of a second instead of dragging out, and hovering the notch opens it a touch sooner
- Terminal no longer opens blank — the shell prompt could stay invisible until you clicked (worst on notch Macs, where every open animates); it now repaints itself reliably as the panel settles
v1.0.57build 59
Real-time AI-agent activity in the notch plus a batch of important fixes — when Claude Code needs permission or asks a question it now surfaces as an island you can act on, and Light Mode, external-monitor brightness, the volume/brightness HUD, stuck download progress and panel-open speed are all fixed
- AI agent activity — when Claude Code needs permission or asks something, it appears as a notch island; approve or deny right there, jump to the terminal that's waiting, see what each turn cost with a running session total, and glance at every live agent in one panel (opt-in; installs Claude Code hooks)
- Long command islands — build, test or deploy commands that run past ten seconds show a live timer in the notch, then a ✓/✗ result (opt-in; zsh)
- Light Mode fix — the notch panel, the volume/brightness HUD and the lock-screen widget now stay dark and readable instead of washing out over a light desktop
- Replace System HUD works again — hiding the macOS overlay needs Input Monitoring (a permission that gets dropped on app updates); Settings now shows a one-tap way to grant it
- External-monitor brightness fixed — the brightness slider now actually drives DDC monitors instead of doing nothing while only contrast responded
- Custom idle animation no longer balloons into a full-notch block and turns off cleanly
- Download progress no longer sticks on 'in progress' forever after the download has finished
- Snappier open — panel content appears the moment the notch expands instead of after a beat
v1.0.56build 58
Fixes the anonymous active-install counter — recent builds shipped without the reporting key, so the live stats had stopped counting; no visible change, just accurate numbers again
v1.0.55build 57
A big feature drop plus a friendlier Settings and fixes — a minimalist Now Playing pill, Spotify Liked-Songs, terminal colour schemes, live download progress, richer weather with air quality and sunrise/sunset, external-monitor brightness over DDC, and a Beta update channel; the brightness island now shows on notch MacBooks and every Settings page explains what it does
- Minimalist Now Playing — an optional always-on pill showing album art, the scrolling title/artist and an equaliser while music plays, without opening the notch
- Spotify Liked Songs — connect Spotify (your own free app key, no password stored) and the ♥ lights up on Spotify tracks, just like Apple Music's favourite
- Terminal colour schemes — Dracula, Nord, Solarized and Tango, applied live to the notch terminal
- Live download progress — a pinned island tracks an in-flight download (a real progress bar for Safari, a running byte count elsewhere), then hands off to the Download Finished island
- Richer weather — feels-like, humidity, colour-coded air quality and the next sunrise/sunset on the Home card and the lock screen
- External-monitor brightness — adjust external displays over DDC/CI on Apple Silicon, with contrast and input-source switching, and the brightness keys now drive your external monitor too
- Beta updates — opt into pre-release builds from About → Updates
- Brightness island on notch Macs — the Notchy brightness HUD now appears on MacBooks where the keys bypass the tap, instead of only the system one
- Friendlier Settings — every page now has a plain-language description of what it does, the HUD-style picker no longer crushes its label, and the alternate HUD uses the real macOS frosted material
v1.0.54build 56
The lock-screen music player's progress bar is now draggable again — scrub forward or back through the song right from the lock screen, the way you can in the notch
v1.0.53build 55
Fixes for the notch terminal, lock-screen music controls, the system-stats Top Processes list, and the What's New tour — the terminal could open blank until you clicked it, the lock-screen player's buttons did nothing, a long stats list was cut off by the notch, and the update tour kept replaying old cards
- Terminal renders reliably — the shell prompt could come up blank until you clicked into it (worst on notch Macs, where opening always animates); the terminal now repaints itself as the panel settles and takes the keyboard right away
- Lock-screen music controls work — play/pause, next, and previous on the lock-screen player were dead; they're now live, while every other tap still passes straight through to the password field
- Top Processes no longer cut off — the system-stats flyout now scrolls when CPU temp, GPU, and the process list make it taller than the panel, instead of hiding rows behind the notch
- What's New actually shows what's new — the post-update tour is built from the current version's release notes (it used to replay the same old cards) and only appears on a genuine upgrade
v1.0.52build 54
Polish for the 1.0.51 feature drop — the Caps Lock and lock/unlock HUDs now actually show on hardware-notch MacBooks, the lock-screen player's seek bar renders reliably, the now-playing title no longer does a strange left-to-right jump when the notch opens, the AI Usage tab stops asking for Keychain credentials on every visit, and updating no longer re-opens the permission setup
- Caps Lock & lock HUDs on notch MacBooks — the toggle pill was drawing exactly behind the camera cutout, so it never appeared; it now grows out of the notch below the camera like the volume HUD
- Lock-screen seek bar — the music widget's progress bar could vanish entirely on some Macs; it's rebuilt to render reliably and reads brighter against any wallpaper (battery bar too)
- Smoother opening — the scrolling now-playing title no longer rewinds left-to-right when the panel opens or the track changes, and the first expand no longer smears the glass backdrop
- AI Usage without the password prompts — opening the tab no longer triggers the macOS Keychain dialog for Claude Code's credentials on every visit; live account fetches that need it run only from the explicit Refresh button
- Calmer updates — updating Notchy no longer re-opens the permission setup when optional permissions are unstated, and the setup can always be closed with Esc
v1.0.51build 53
The biggest feature drop yet — a real terminal in the notch, a full lock-screen widget suite, richer system stats, camera/mic privacy indicators, and a stack of new HUDs and glass options
- Terminal tab — a real shell in the notch (colors, cursor keys, TUI apps), with a Dock-Out button that pops the running session into its own window while a fresh one starts in the notch; adjustable font size
- Lock-screen widgets — a now-playing player plus weather, a running-timer countdown, your next calendar event, due reminders, battery/charging, connected-device batteries, and the active Focus, all on the macOS lock screen with an adjustable position
- Richer system stats — GPU utilization and CPU temperature join the flyout, alongside a live Top Processes list
- Camera & mic privacy indicators — a pill when the camera or microphone goes live in any app, like macOS's own dots
- New HUDs & alerts — vertical-bar and circular volume/brightness HUD styles, a Caps Lock HUD, a 'Battery Full — you can unplug' island with an optional low-battery sound, and color-coded battery/volume levels
- Liquid Glass variants — opt into Apple's private glass material with 20 selectable looks
- Custom idle animations — play your own Lottie animation on the closed notch, with an in-app editor to tune speed, scale, and position
- A real audio-reactive visualizer — opt in to drive the now-playing bars from a live FFT of the system audio
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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