Changelog

Build 302

• Unread badge — a red count beside the closed notch shows notifications you haven't seen; click it to open them
• Settings — Back and Forward in the toolbar, with ⌘[ and ⌘] or your mouse's side buttons
• Send Feedback — report a bug or suggest an idea from Settings › About, with screenshots or a screen recording, no email account needed
• Minor fixes and refinements — the clock opens Notification Center every time with menu bar icons hidden, turning off Connect & Disconnect Alerts stops the nearby AirPods Bluetooth scan, and fixes for launch and lock-screen stability

Build 301

• Easier on your battery — the desktop pet rests while you are away from your Mac and wanders less on battery, and the music bars in the notch use less power
• AI Usage — a token chart you can read at a glance
• Files shelf — select files like in Finder: click, ⌘-click, ⇧-click, ⌘A and Esc
• Minor fixes and refinements — AirPods battery and charging on the lock screen, reminders that show their day, Extra Brightness, Face Unlock, Downloads alerts, Home, Minimal Layout and accessibility

Build 300

• Free for 7 days — every feature works during the trial, and Settings › License shows the days left. Buy once to keep Notchy on this Mac, or enter a key you already have
• Free for supporters — if you supported Notchy on Ko-fi or Buy Me a Coffee, a free license is on its way to the email address you used there
• Ask About the Screen — select part of the screen to copy its text, open its links and dates, search, translate or ask about it
• More on your desktop — World Clock, Calendar and Batteries widgets in three sizes, Extra Brightness for XDR displays, and Bluetooth devices that connect in one click from Home

Build 228

• Clear glass on the lock screen — the lock-screen widgets wear the look you pick for the panel, and Clear lets your wallpaper show through the player the way it does on iPhone
• Quick Settings your way — choose which switches the Settings tab shows and drag them into order in Settings › Tabs › Quick Settings
• Drop pictures from anywhere — images dragged from Safari, Chrome, Photos or Mail land on the notch shelf
• Face Unlock Only — on older Macs, run just Face Unlock without the notch, from Settings › Face Unlock › Battery

Build 227

• A calmer panel — at most six header buttons with the rest under More, one look for anything that's on, tabs that don't repeat their own name, and a timer that always shows when it ends
• Notchy in your language — dates and times follow the language you choose in Notchy, Arabic and other right-to-left languages mirror the panel, and Arabic buttons read correctly
• Notification Center stays open — with Hide Menu Bar Icons on, clicking the clock no longer closes Notification Center a second after it opens on Macs set to a language other than English
• Your wallpaper on every Space — with Hide Notch on, each Space keeps its own wallpaper instead of switching to the last one Notchy masked

Build 226

• Asks before it deletes — lowering the clipboard history limit, importing settings, resetting snap zones and regenerating your API token now ask first, and a note that changed in Apple Notes keeps your draft until you choose
• Works with your keyboard — reach the Launcher, first-run setup, island buttons, shelf files and the Timer ruler with Full Keyboard Access, and VoiceOver now reads running timers, stopwatches and recordings
• Easier on your battery — brightness, lyrics, AI usage, call and media checks pause when nothing on screen needs them, and live timer chips no longer redraw the whole notch every second
• More private — lock-screen calendar and reminder cards show only the time unless you turn on titles, and Notchy keeps its copies of notifications encrypted on this Mac

Build 225

• Your music app — Open Music launches the player you choose, and Notchy can stop Music from opening by itself when headphones connect
• Timer at a glance — set a custom timer in hours, minutes and seconds, hover a running timer to see its controls, and the Lock Screen Timer Card shows a running stopwatch too
• Your notch, your way — choose which tabs show their names, keep more buttons in Minimal Layout (Stopwatch, Timer and others), hide the Support button, set how small Minimal Layout draws with Minimal Layout Scale, and turn on Show Unlock Animation in Lock Screen settings to see an open lock in the pill as you unlock
• Steadier and easier to use — buttons across the notch show hover and press feedback again, more controls work with the keyboard and VoiceOver, and a failed update install now restores your existing copy of Notchy; also the lock-screen pill no longer sits too low on some Macs, Quick Settings keeps a Fixed Size panel’s size, Notchy frees AI Usage scan memory between scans, Mission Control no longer flashes a black slab, File Shelf waits a moment before opening on a drag, right-click cancels the color picker, Custom Fill gradients hold still as the panel opens, the pill clears the notch at 1:1 display resolutions, a running timer, Calendar, Reminders, the Files shelf and permission prompts fit short panels, Hide Menu Bar Icons now tucks away Notchy’s own icons too, rare freezes when changing volume, opening Now Playing with lyrics, or launching on older Intel Macs are fixed, unexpected values no longer crash AI Usage, Activity Rings, fan readings or the app mixer, Now Playing no longer freezes when macOS’s media service stalls, clipboard history, Mission Control, external displays, calls and Reminders no longer freeze when a system service is slow, fan speed is remembered, and calendar events ending at midnight stay on their own day

Build 224

• Settings back by request — Control Playback with Media Keys (turn it off if your headphones’ play button fights Notchy), Square Album Art, Pill Height Adjustment, Animation Speed and Collapse Delay (set it to Instant to close as soon as the pointer leaves)
• Settings open fully — every section on a Settings page is expanded, so each option is one click away
• Calmer panel — the open panel casts a soft shadow, and the clipboard’s Undo bar floats over the list instead of squeezing it in a short panel
• Speed control in browsers — a new button switches “Allow JavaScript from Apple Events” back off in each open browser
• Minor fixes and refinements — fixes a crash at launch when a timer, stopwatch or upcoming event was showing, the pill flickers less through Mission Control and unlock on macOS Ventura, the lock-screen pill stays under the camera instead of sitting lower after a lock, Face Unlock and link-automation switches stay on this Mac when you restore a settings backup, copied API tokens stay out of clipboard history, VoiceOver confirms copies and saved notes, album art keeps its colors under Invert Colors, and clicking the panel no longer interrupts a permission prompt

Build 223

• Header buttons — only the buttons that don’t fit fold into the More menu, so Mic Mute, Camera, Identify Song and the rest show up when you switch them on
• Lock screen — tapping a lock-screen control no longer takes typing away from your password, and Notchy wakes far less while your Mac is locked
• VoiceOver and keyboard — notifications wait while you read or focus them, and Home cards, Join Meeting and Now Playing can be reached with Full Keyboard Access
• Minor fixes and refinements — Face Unlock asks for a blink or head turn and pauses after five failed tries, saved sign-ins can no longer be lost while being updated, quick two-finger flicks on the pill register, the Settings tab is sized like Control Center, percentages follow your language, a fan switch and Open Fan Settings button in System Stats, clearer permission and alert buttons, and a crash fix for tooltips on macOS 15

Build 222

• A tidier Settings — about 80 rarely used options are gone or merged into one, tool pages sit under a single Tools section, and search opens the right group
• Timers and the command palette — timers and the stopwatch survive a relaunch, and the palette understands “timer 12m”, “note …”, “task …” and “remind … tomorrow 9am”
• Minor fixes and refinements — Ask AI can Retry or Edit Question and stays put while you read, Notes and Ask AI open in their own window, Translate says your text goes to Google, custom panel colours stay readable, clipboard capture can be paused, Face Unlock setup fills its ring even when your camera sits above or beside your eye line, Caffeine stays on when Notchy restarts, Stay Awake With the Lid Closed asks for your password on work and school accounts too, and fixes for a freeze when locking the screen with the lock sound on and while installing an update on some Intel Macs

Build 221

• Lock screen pill — on MacBooks with a notch running macOS 26, Notchy now draws the lock screen pill the way macOS leaves at full size, so it sits right under the camera instead of a little below it
• Messages — replying to Teams, WhatsApp, Slack and other apps from the notch now actually sends, and you can flick a banner sideways to dismiss it, like a macOS notification
• OpenCode in AI Usage — its own tab and Overview row, like Claude Code and Codex, with tokens, cost, sessions and top model from OpenCode's local history
• Minor fixes and refinements — a simpler Settings tab with Size & Color one click away, a “Same as Panel” pill colour and Settings window glass option, Packages update progress, correct AI costs for more Claude and GPT models, a Caffeine island whenever Caffeine turns on or off, more header controls Minimal Layout can hide, and a battery icon that fills to your real charge

Build 220

• Lock screen pill — on MacBooks with a notch, Notchy now undoes the zoom macOS applies to the lock screen, so the pill sits right under the camera after Touch ID or Control-Command-Q locks
• Spaces and Show Desktop — the pill stays on every desktop and in place when you show the desktop, and still hides over full-screen apps
• Minimal Layout — choose which header buttons stay: Settings → Appearance → Minimal Layout → Header Buttons
• Minor fixes and refinements — a running timer sits beside the camera, more actions can be undone, better VoiceOver and keyboard support, smoother lists, and the menu bar tells you when Notchy is switched off in System Settings → Menu Bar

Build 219

• Lock screen pill — on MacBooks with a notch, the pill no longer changes size or jumps across the screen after you lock
• Resizable Cuely — drag the corner of the reading strip to size it, or set it in Cuely settings; double-click the corner for the default size
• One-click updates — when an update is ready, an Update button in the panel header installs it and relaunches Notchy
• Minor fixes and refinements — Join Meeting opens a meeting about to start first, and the menu bar tells you when an icon you turned on has no room

Build 218

• Lock screen pill — on MacBooks with a notch, the pill now stays right under the camera after you lock with Touch ID or Control-Command-Q
• Faster start — Notchy no longer waits on Bluetooth when it launches, so it can't stall for several seconds

Build 217

• Fewer crashes — fixes rare crashes when playing sounds, changing per-app volume, snapping windows and drawing colors
• Steadier settings — reading and saving settings no longer risks a crash when several parts of Notchy do it at once

Build 216

• Cuely manual scrolling — start your script and set the pace with a mouse wheel or trackpad, alongside automatic scrolling and voice follow
• Stacked messages — keep recent messages together in the notch, with separate Reply, Open and Dismiss controls for each message
• Simpler Settings — all applicable pages are visible by default, with fewer switches and automatic lock-screen alignment
• Minor fixes and refinements — improved alignment after repeated locks, more reliable menu bar tabs, fewer false Siri activations, refreshed support prompts, safer audio and widgets, and updated translations

Build 215

• Lock screen pill — on MacBooks with a notch, the lock pill no longer drops below the camera after you lock with Touch ID or Control-Command-Q
• Tidier menu bar calendar — the month view opens without a highlighted button, and the New Event form lines up

Build 214

• Lock screen fixed — on MacBooks with a notch, the lock pill and Face Unlock stay right under the camera after you lock with Touch ID or Control-Command-Q
• Unlocking looks normal again — the full-screen unlock screen some people saw after updating to 1.0.211 is gone

Build 213

• Menu bar calendar — click the next-meeting item in the menu bar for a month calendar right below it, with the day’s events, Join and New Event
• Steadier and quicker — opening notifications, muting the mic and changing an external display’s brightness no longer hold up the notch, and lyrics stay in time after music buffers
• Safer approvals — “Always” now covers only commands like the one you approved, and hidden characters in a command are shown before you allow it
• Minor fixes and refinements — Todoist due times, reminders that were marked overdue too early, the Calendar tab at short heights, link cleaning, Focus modes after granting Full Disk Access, lock screen placement, larger click targets, settings search, and corrected translations

Build 212

• Simpler Settings — Screenshots, Typing Sounds, Face Unlock and Developer have their own pages, Weather lives with Home, and related switches are combined into clearer choices
• Fits every Mac — on Macs without a notch the pill stays clear of app menus, and with several displays the shortcut opens Notchy only on the screen you are using
• Safer approvals — a coding agent's approval island now shows the whole command, including its real ending, before you approve it
• Minor fixes and refinements — lock screen placement after a manual lock, quicker hover and keyboard motion, clearer contrast and VoiceOver labels, stock prices in your currency, more reliable clipboard images, and updated translations

Build 211

• Face Unlock, calls and the lock screen — Face Unlock recovers from camera interruptions, calls are recognised on newer macOS versions, and the island keeps its position after locking or waking
• Smoother everyday controls — Tabs, music and Settings respond with calmer motion, better keyboard focus and improved VoiceOver labels. Notification delivery has fewer switches and keeps your saved choices
• Minor fixes and refinements — more reliable file drops, clipboard previews and display recovery, finished music clears correctly, stock prices use the right precision, and updated translations

Build 210

• Notification controls — Notifications your Focus allows show right away. Hover to expand them, and undo dismissals or clearing the Notifications tab
• Face Unlock and lock screen — Icons sit against the camera again. Face Unlock starts faster and explains when setup or authorization is needed. Scan your face once more from this guide
• Music, Launcher and Undo — Music clears finished tracks and follows the right player. Launcher tiles respond to the first click or drag, and reminder completions and snippet deletions offer Undo
• Minor fixes and refinements — settings resets keep your notes and setup progress, iCloud respects newer edits, weather and stock alerts recover reliably, and the app does less work in the background

Build 209

• Face Unlock unlocks the way iPhone does: just look at your Mac. No more turning or blinking on cue, and the island shows only its animation
• Face Unlock setup finishes reliably. It asks for small head movements, skips blurry frames, and turns your screen into a soft light in a dark room
• Settings is reorganised: My Setup without the repeated switch list, grouped Pet options, and a switch for each trackpad swipe direction
• Minor fixes and refinements — banners under an alert on macOS 27, Now Playing clearing finished tracks, and more of Notchy translated in widgets and the lock screen

Build 208

• Scan your face again after updating to use improved Face Unlock. Your password stays in the Keychain. Setup handles awkward head angles and Macs without Touch ID correctly
• Incoming FaceTime and iPhone calls are recognised again on macOS 27, including calls answered in the Phone app
• The file shelf grows to fill a tall island, and the Calendar tab shows full-size weeks when the island is wide but short
• Notifications-Only Mode keeps the notch closed until you click for music controls or alert details. HUDs Beside the Notch keeps volume and brightness clear of your page. Hover, rating, and update prompts are quieter

Build 207

• Face Unlock setup no longer turns down a steady, consistent face scan
• Settings switches pages instantly, and the About page is tidier with the Supporter section folded away
• Resizing a Home card in Settings now follows your pointer exactly
• Minor fixes and refinements — corrected German, French and Spanish translations

Build 206

• Face Unlock setup accepts your Mac password again on Macs where macOS couldn't check it, and says when a password can't be saved instead of calling it wrong
• If you have several copies of Notchy installed, it offers to move the extras to the Trash, so permissions and features work reliably
• Notification Center opens from the clock and its shortcut again while menu bar icons are hidden on macOS 27
• Minor fixes and refinements — a Copy button on the screenshot island, Notes improvements, and no repeat Accessibility prompts after you decline

Build 205

• Fixes Notchy crashing at launch or in Lock Screen settings on Macs with Face Unlock, and when opening Quick Look. If Notchy ever crashes twice right after opening, it now starts in a safe mode and checks for a fix
• The Siri island appears again on macOS 27
• Square Album Art now applies everywhere: the closed notch, the hover player, Home and Now Playing
• Live Transcript in Settings → Capture shows your latest words in the notch while you dictate — it starts off

Build 204

• Ask AI: a new tab for chatting with Claude right in the notch, using your own Anthropic API key — it starts off
• The Sound Mixer tab keeps your output and microphone on screen, with an input level and a mic mute, and Agent Permission Islands now work with Codex too
• Hide from Screen Capture is back in Settings → Behavior, and support asks are quieter: no scheduled donation pop-ups, just a small Support button in the panel header
• Minor fixes and refinements — smoother scrolling, a battery and performance pass, hidden menu bar icons that stay hidden and tuck away reliably, and a centered opening animation

Build 203

• Settings → Now Playing adds Desktop Lyrics, a second lyrics provider with translations, and a private listening history with bookmarks — each starts off
• Settings → Calendar lets you create and edit events from the notch and shows due tasks alongside them — each starts off
• Settings → General can keep chosen menu bar icons always hidden or reveal them on hover, and tabs can now sit beside the notch, be marked favorites, or include a Sound Mixer — each starts off
• Minor fixes and refinements — music bars that move like Apple’s Now Playing waveform and hold still in Low Power Mode or with Reduce Motion, call controls for FaceTime and iPhone calls you place, quieter volume and brightness during Focus, behavior presets, network traffic history, recoverable notes drafts and checklists, a Ports button, and a required-update check for versions with serious problems

Build 202

• Turn on Typing Sounds in Settings → Capture to hear a click on every key press — mechanical, typewriter, your own sound and more, in every app or just the ones you pick, with a shortcut to pause — it starts off
• Settings → Calendar can show your next meeting in the menu bar and open Calendar from your own keyboard shortcut — each starts off
• Square Album Art in Settings → Now Playing shows the cover like iPhone, and a Capture Sound in Settings → Clipboard clicks for each new copy — each starts off
• Minor fixes and refinements — a single-arrow menu bar hider on macOS 27, the lock-screen island stays under the notch after ⌃⌘Q, the Home Camera card always starts the mirror first, a roomier menu-bar Calendar, and tidier info notes in Settings

Build 201

• Turn on Announce New Tracks to see each new song's title and artist in the notch, or Stop Title Scrolling to fit long titles, in Settings → Now Playing — each starts off
• Pets can now go fishing, celebrate holidays, grow up and earn treats from daily quests — turn each on in Settings → Pet
• Notchy uses far less energy: AI usage is no longer rescanned every few seconds while your desktop pet walks
• Minor fixes and refinements — an Invisible Until Hover pill no longer covers menu-bar items, the menu bar hider explains an empty collapse, and no freeze while a video downloader installs

Build 200

• Choose from 52 illustrated pet characters that watch your cursor, and turn on Pet Weather, Fur Colours, Pet Memories and the Quick Paws game in Settings → Pet — each starts off
• Turn on Text Actions in Settings → Pointer, then select text in any app to copy, search, look up or translate it from a small bar above it
• Home cards have visible edges again, and a short Calendar card shows full-size weeks instead of shrinking the whole month
• Minor fixes and refinements — PopClip with pointer effects, no freeze when a network drive stalls, and a tidier pet picker

Build 199

• The notch reappears for everyone who lost it after 1.0.196, and it responds to clicks and hover again right after you unlock
• Choose External in Settings → Behavior → Show On to keep Notchy off your built-in display, and lyrics now follow the song only when their timing matches the version you're playing
• Enable 9 new pet companions, pet games, bedtime, window rides, visits to other displays and personalities, plus a weather forecast and AI limit alerts — each starts off
• Minor fixes and refinements — Location for Weather, focus after unlock, scrollable unsynced lyrics and pet backup and restore

Build 198

• Hide Pill for Sharing hides the pill on every display, including your own; reopen Notchy to restore it in Settings
• Keep Cuely scripts through preference resets and imports, and preserve earlier image conversions
• Quit waits for screen recordings to finish saving; message previews stay off the lock screen
• Minor fixes and refinements — fan recovery, audio, focus, screen capture, account sign-in, notifications and accessible controls

Build 197

• Enable Focus Sounds to play rain, brown noise, wind or waves from Timer or Home, with an optional stop when Pomodoro ends
• Enable Color Tools, Saved Links or natural-language reminder dates to keep useful colors and pages close and plan reminders faster
• Choose repeated timer alarms, independent shelf copies or automatic shelf cleanup — each new option starts off
• Minor fixes and refinements — media controls, file dragging and sharing, Home navigation, notification queues, Face Unlock and translations

Build 196

• Open full sections directly from Home card headings, with clearer controls and panel layouts
• Reorder Launcher apps without accidental folders, and use explicit actions to organize folders
• Keep Cuely, usage tracking, audio startup and file dragging responsive while background services are busy
• Minor fixes and refinements — swipes, Peek, Spotify playlists, menu-bar hiding, lock-screen placement and Face Unlock session checks

Build 195

• Update checks find the latest compatible release and give clearer installation feedback
• Spotify playlist checkmarks update progressively, and existing tracks no longer show a new-add confirmation
• Calls stay compact alongside other activities, while Peek and notification actions recover more reliably
• Minor fixes and refinements — wake recovery, Face Unlock retries, menu-bar fitting, pointer effects and Teams responsiveness

Build 194

• Close stale Now Playing sessions and restore them when needed; QuickTime playback stays visible while seeking
• Enable Spotify Playlist Checkmarks to see matching playlists and check for duplicate tracks before adding
• Enable Center Pill Lyrics for balanced short lyric lines, with scrolling retained for longer lines
• Minor fixes and refinements — media-key repeats, camera startup, call layout, Peek transitions and pointer effects

Build 193

• Choose your daily tools, quick actions and alerts together in My Setup, with a quieter first launch and settings focused on your enabled tools
• Add Pomodoro quick access, dictation shortcuts or repeated window snapping across displays — each new option starts off
• Improved menu-bar hiding on wide displays, Spotify playlist and Liked Songs actions, wake recovery and pointer overlays
• Minor fixes and refinements — settings scrolling, safe numeric preferences, keyboard activity, popovers, recording and background services

Build 192

• The notch and running activities recover more reliably after sleep and fullscreen unlock
• Join Teams meetings from Outlook calendar notes without mixing extra link text into the meeting passcode
• Choose a small circular island control, adjust its size, or reverse the HUD colors — each option starts off
• Minor fixes and refinements — menu-bar controls, duplicate download alerts, pointer overlays, camera teardown, and background responsiveness

Build 191

• Each adopted pet keeps its own care and levels, progress continues beyond level 10, and secret clues explain how to unlock discoveries
• Pet cards use the macOS sharing menu, and settings explain when Minimalistic UI hides enabled tabs or header buttons
• Desktop changes use a small, single-line label, feature tips start off, and Liquid Glass looks have clearer visual differences
• Minor fixes and refinements — menu-bar hiding on macOS 27, notification history and replies, panel focus return, cross-Mac hover checks, media controls, and background-service stability

Build 190

• Panel clicks and focus return are more reliable, with an optional double-click setting to prevent accidental opening
• Clipboard history shows the newest items first and keeps items saved to lists out of the main history
• iCloud settings sync loads the latest settings before uploading, and menu bar hiding works better on Macs without a notch
• Minor fixes and refinements — AI Usage connection errors, weather details, terminal wake recovery, lock-screen cleanup, meeting-alert keyboard handling, translations, and a Back to Meeting button for Zoom

Build 189

• Add the Pet Room card to Home: a little room your pet lives in, with a bed, bowls and toys it uses when you click them — open it to decorate with furniture, wallpaper and floors
• Your pet learned new things: give it a treat, brush it, or ask for a trick — and clicking the pet on your desktop now just pets it (double-click opens its card)
• Notifications Notchy takes over now stay in the Notifications tab after they leave the notch, and Teams, Zoom and other call controls appear moments after you join
• Minor fixes and refinements — hot corners and window tiling keep working after you lock your Mac, call controls stay black with Liquid Glass on, and updated translations

Build 188

• Scan QR codes on your screen — turn on the Scan QR Code button, select a code, and Notchy copies it and offers to open links
• Screen recordings are saved to your Desktop, or wherever your screenshots go, and a red timer on the notch shows one is running — click it to stop
• Now Playing finds a second app playing at the same time, and Pomodoro’s Skip goes straight to your next focus session
• Minor fixes and refinements — Mission Control shows your windows again with pointer effects on, battery health matches System Settings, hovering the open panel no longer takes the keyboard, the notch stays shut while you reach for menu bar items beside it, the pill no longer hides when an app’s menus reach it, and updated translations

Build 187

• Give a clipboard copy a title — right-click and choose Add Title, then find it by that name in search
• Fewer hangs — long Clipboard, Shortcuts, Focus and Home lists no longer freeze the panel
• The notch stays visible and opens on hover when an app’s menus run past the notch or sit on another display
• Minor fixes and refinements — playback controls reach the app you pinned in Now Playing, a softer desktop pet shadow, and updated translations

Build 186

• Settings, reorganized — new Behavior and Displays pages, and features grouped by what they’re for, so every switch is easier to find
• Snap windows from the keyboard, and pick the snap zones for each display — halves, thirds, quarters and more
• Windows & Spaces — move between desktops with a shortcut, and an optional island shows which Space you’re on
• Minor fixes and refinements — a livelier Bouncy animation, the notch steps aside when an app’s menus reach it, switching Now Playing between two apps that play at once, the keyboard returns to your app when the panel closes, call islands sit in the menu bar, and updated translations

Build 185

• Customize Home more easily — search and browse cards by category, undo a card you removed, and the default layout no longer leaves empty gaps
• Easier to read — text in the notch and in Settings is now at least 10 points, and Settings reopens on the page you used last
• Face Unlock adapts to your appearance — a missed scan followed by your password teaches it the new look
• Minor fixes and refinements — fewer hangs, notification banners placed correctly on multiple displays, Liquid Glass and menu polish, clearer permission prompts, and updated translations

Build 184

• Fan control right in the System Info flyout — switch it on, pick Automatic, Manual or Curve for each fan, and drag the speed without opening Settings
• Better translations in 133 languages — clipboard hints and countdown labels now use the correct format
• More reliable AI usage tracking with overflow protection and faster change detection
• Minor fixes and refinements — the usage scanner handles large histories without slowing down, and battery health readings are cached

Build 183

• Twelve new Home cards — Tasks, Desktop Pet, Screen Time, Apps, Sound, Device Batteries, Coding Agents, App Updates, Quick Actions, Brightness, Emoji and Calculator
• App Cleaner in the Packages tab — uninstall an app, reset it, or clear its cache, see every file it touches first, and sweep up what deleted apps left behind
• Siri in the notch now shows the new iOS 27 waveform
• Minor fixes and refinements — Focus modes without a shortcut explain the one-time setup instead of jumping to Settings, the menu-bar popover no longer reopens itself, and fewer hangs

Build 182

• A calmer start — new installs begin with the extras off, and the tour explains each feature on its own card with its own switch
• Pointer styles — theme your mouse pointer, and add click ripples, a halo, a trail or a hold-⌃⌥ spotlight from Settings › Pointer
• Minor fixes and refinements — the brightness keys raise your MacBook screen again when an external monitor holds the menu bar

Build 181

• Turn on a full-screen alert for meetings, and join calls straight from the notch
• Keep clipboard history after quitting, sort saved items into lists, and sync saved text through iCloud
• New pets to adopt — a capybara, a pygmy hippo, a husky and a golden retriever — and a quieter, cleaner pet card
• Minor fixes and refinements — Universal Control no longer pops the notch open, and icons sit centered in their buttons

Build 180

• Adopt a pixel cat or dog that wanders your desktop, sweats when your Mac runs hot, watches videos with you, slides when you tilt your Mac, and hides secrets, shinies and seasonal hats to collect and share
• Open apps from a radial launcher wheel, uninstall apps to the Trash with their leftover files, and paste clipboard text without formatting
• See where your day went with a Screen Time card, plus a Claude Code streak in AI Usage
• Minor fixes and refinements — the pill no longer sits too low on external displays, and hovering the top edge reveals Notchy over full-screen apps again

Build 179

• Hanging up from the notch's call controls returns the notch to normal instead of leaving an empty black card
• A FaceTime call's timer clears from the notch when you hang up, even if FaceTime stays open
• Notchy's menu bar items now open over full-screen apps, and a detached Timer shows the time left in the menu bar
• Minor fixes and refinements — a crash with Notchy's Settings in front, and a hang when resizing images from the shelf

Build 178

• Notification and island sounds play without freezing the notch for a moment while your speakers wake up

Build 177

• Quick Settings now has Height Offset, Panel Width and Panel Height sliders, so you can size Notchy with it in view
• The Weather city field suggests matching cities as you type
• The support ask is now a small heart in the panel header instead of a pop-up, and shows roughly how much time Notchy has saved you

Build 176

• Black Out Screen Corners now rounds all four corners of the desktop, with the top curves meeting the black menu bar
• Panel and hover animations stay short and crisp while Low Power Mode is on

Build 175

• Calendar events from Google Calendar, Outlook, any iCalendar link or a CalDAV account, alongside your Mac calendars
• Tasks from Todoist and Microsoft To Do next to Apple Reminders, with a choice of where Quick Add saves
• Anonymous analytics can now be switched off in About → Privacy, and its identifier reset
• Clearer, consistent wording across the app, and 270 settings labels that were English-only now translated

Later change: The direct Google and Microsoft sign-in described here, including Microsoft To Do, was retired in 1.0.208. Add Google, Outlook or Microsoft 365 accounts in System Settings → Internet Accounts instead and their calendars appear in Notchy. .ics links and CalDAV accounts are still added in Settings → Calendar.

Build 174

• New Tasks tab — a to-do list in the notch — and clipboard history now ignores 1Password, Apple Passwords and any app you add to its ignore list
• Copied links get their tracking parameters stripped, and the clipboard can empty itself after a delay, on sleep or on lock
• Send any app's sound to its own output device, and right-click a menu-bar icon for that feature's options
• Minor fixes and refinements — steadier Now Playing, a fuller Pomodoro, snappier tab switching, fewer crashes, and widgets on Intel Macs

Build 173

• Face Unlock matches faces more accurately and refuses photos and screens held up to the camera
• Press space on the lock screen to start a Face Unlock scan
• Give the pill and the open panel their own colour or gradient
• Minor fixes and refinements — the calendar countdown names its event, browser sign-ins for AI usage are read by Notchy itself

Build 172

• Spaces: see every desktop on a Home card, jump with a click, swipe the notch or use a shortcut, and name each Space
• A monthly receipt prints from the notch with what Notchy handled for you last month
• AI usage tracking updated with more accurate costs and newer providers
• Minor fixes and refinements — hotkeys, notification settings, translations

Build 171

• 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

Build 170

• 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

Build 169

• 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

• 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

Build 168

• 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

Build 167

• 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

Build 166

• 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

Build 165

• Fixed Notchy freezing and restarting itself when music started or the audio output changed — the audio-reactive bars now start in the background

Build 164

• 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

Build 163

• 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

Build 162

• 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

Build 161

• 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

Build 160

• 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

Build 159

• 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

Build 158

• 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

Build 157

• 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

Build 156

• 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

Build 155

• 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

Build 154

• 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

• 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

Build 152

• 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

Build 151

• 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

Build 150

• 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

Build 149

• 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

Build 148

• 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

• 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

Build 146

• 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

Build 145

• 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

Build 144

• 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

• 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

Build 142

• 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

Build 141

• 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

Build 140

• 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

Build 139

• 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

Build 138

• 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

Build 137

• 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

Build 136

• 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

Build 134

• 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

Build 133

• 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

Build 132

• 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

Build 131

• 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

Build 130

• 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

Build 129

• 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

Build 128

• 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

Build 126

• 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

Build 125

• 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

Build 124

• 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

Build 123

• 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

Build 122

• 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

Build 121

• 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

Build 120

• 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

Build 119

• 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

Build 118

• 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

Build 117

• 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

Build 116

• 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

Build 115

• 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

Build 114

• 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

Build 113

• 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

Build 112

• 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

Build 111

• 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

Build 110

• 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

Build 109

• 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

Build 102

• 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

Build 101

• 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

Build 100

• 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

Build 99

• 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

Build 98

• 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

Build 97

• 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

Build 96

• 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

Build 95

• 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

Build 94

• 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

Build 93

• 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

Build 92

• 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

Build 91

• 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

Build 90

• 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

Build 89

• 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

Build 88

• 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

Build 87

• 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

Build 86

• 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

Build 85

• 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

Build 84

• 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

Build 83

• Dynamic Island Chips — live activities read like Apple’s now: glyph and value in the activity’s tint, sized to their content, rolling digits, no boxes inside boxes
• Music While Closed — 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 — 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 — a Clock-style dial with the finish time inside, controls beneath it, and restart presets beside it
• Minor fixes and refinements — island styling, menu-bar popovers, battery icons and the support nudge

Build 82

• Approve/Deny Island Restored — 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 — granting a permission in your terminal clears the notch prompt within a second instead of leaving it pinned
• No More Hook Errors — Notchy restarting made Claude Code print “hook error” into your session; the forwarder never fails its run now
• Tab Bar Can’t Be Pushed Off — 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 — clicking away, or switching apps, dismisses a detached tab instead of leaving it over the desktop
• Steadier Pill — 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 — a raised hand and the project name instead of an unexplained sparkle
• Widget Fixes — 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

Build 81

• 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’s 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

Build 80

• 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

Build 79

• 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

Build 78

• 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

Build 77

• 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

• 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

Build 74

• 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

Build 73

• 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

Build 72

• 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

Build 71

• 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

Build 70

• 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

Build 69

• 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

Build 68

• 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

Build 67

• 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

Build 66

• 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

Build 65

• 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

Build 64

• 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

Build 63

• AI Usage Dashboard & Tracker 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

Build 62

• 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

Build 61

• 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

Build 60

• 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

Build 59

• 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

Build 57

• 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

Build 55

• 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

Build 54

• 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

Build 53

• 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

Build 52

• 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

Build 51

• 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

Build 47

• 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

Build 46

• 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

Build 45

• 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

Build 43

• 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

Build 42

• 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

Build 41

• 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

Build 40

• 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

Build 39

• 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

Build 38

• 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”

Build 36

• 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

Build 35

• 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

Build 34

• 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

Build 33

• 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

Build 32

• 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

Build 31

• 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

Build 30

• 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

Build 29

• 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

Build 28

• 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

Build 26

• 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

Build 25

• 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

Build 24

• 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

Build 19

• 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

Build 15

• 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

Build 10

• 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

Build 9

• 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