iPhone Dynamic Island on Mac

Getting the iPhone Dynamic Island on your Mac

1. 1
   Download the Notchy App

   Download the free Notchy client for macOS. Fully signed and notarized by Apple, running natively on macOS 13 Ventura and higher.

2. 2
   Grant Overlay Privileges

   Launch the app and grant Accessibility and Screen Overlay permissions. This lets Notchy render dynamic canvases directly around your physical camera notch.

3. 3
   True-to-iOS Feel

   Play a song in Spotify, copy text, connect your AirPods, or launch a focus countdown. Watch the notch dynamically stretch and react with liquid fluid animations.

Recreated with Pixel-Perfect Precision

Porting an iOS feature to macOS requires careful respect for screen layouts and user experience. A cheap replica would lag your mouse or clutter your menu bar items.

Notchy matches the actual iOS spring and dampening ratios using Apple's Core Animation system inside SwiftUI. The island morphs fluidly, stretching horizontally during track shifts, dropping down as a calendar window, and squeezing tight during system volume and brightness adjustments.

• Fluid Dynamic Island animations on the Mac notch
• Command palette (⌃⌥K) — every action one keystroke away
• Knock — double-tap a modifier key to open the notch
• AI usage tracker (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot)
• Detach any tab into a menu-bar popover
• Now Playing music controls (Apple Music & Spotify)
• Time-synced karaoke lyrics under the notch
• Mac clipboard history shelf (password-manager safe)
• Searchable clipboard — filter by text, file name, or OCR'd words
• On-device OCR — copy a screenshot, get its text (Apple Vision)
• Window snapping — drag a window to the notch to tile it
• App Launcher — pin apps to the notch, open with one tap
• Text snippets — TextExpander-style pastes from the ⌘K palette
• One-tap screen capture to clipboard + shelf
• Color eyedropper — sample any pixel, hex auto-copied
• System-wide mic mute for every meeting app at once
• Keystroke HUD for demos & screencasts (secure-input safe)
• Keyboard cleaning lock with countdown island (⌘⎋ unlocks)
• Menu-bar icon hiding — Bartender-style separator & chevron
• Live CPU / memory / network stats flyout
• Open GitHub PR count in the notch (Keychain-stored token)
• iPhone-style call island — Answer/Decline FaceTime on the notch
• Notch Terminal — real VT100/xterm shell in a PTY, its own tab
• Privacy Indicator — pill when any app's camera or mic goes live
• Caps Lock HUD — brief island on every toggle
• Full Charge island with adjustable threshold + low-battery sound
• Alt HUD styles — edge-pinned bar or circular gauge off the notch
• Audio-reactive Now Playing visualizer (real FFT of system audio)
• Custom closed-notch idle animation — drop in your own Lottie JSON
• Drag-and-drop file drop shelf — persists across relaunches
• Zip & unzip files right from the shelf
• Image converter (HEIC, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PDF) + video → GIF
• Run Apple Shortcuts with one tap
• Screenshots auto-staged on the shelf, ready to drag
• Download finished alerts with Reveal in Finder
• USB drive mount island with one-tap Eject
• Apple Reminders quick capture & due list
• macOS Pomodoro notch timer & stopwatch — streaks + 7-day chart
• Resizable expanded panel (width & height, live preview)
• System HUDs (volume, brightness, battery)
• Audio output switcher (speakers, AirPods, monitor)
• AirPods connection manager & battery
• Magic Mouse, Keyboard & Trackpad battery + low-battery alerts
• Quick notes & Calendar widgets
• Camera Mirror (check your appearance)
• Keep Awake (caffeine toggle)
• Teleprompter (Cuely) for Zoom calls
• Focus-aware alerts & native haptic feedback
• Lock screen widgets & hide-the-notch mode
• 133 languages, fully localized
• Native SwiftUI, tuned for Apple Silicon

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