Micro-App Feature
The Best Free Mac AirPods App
Get the magical iPhone AirPods experience on your Mac. Notchy shows your battery life and lets you connect with one tap right from the notch. No menu bar digging, no licence key.
iOS-style magic on Mac
When you open your AirPods case near your Mac, Notchy expands the Dynamic Island to show a beautiful, fluid battery animation — just like your iPhone.
Battery and pairing, straight from the notch
iOS-style pairing on the Mac started as a paid-app idea. Notchy brings that polish to the notch for free — the app-by-app comparison lives on the AirBuddy alternative page.
One-tap connection
Stop clicking through the macOS Control Center to force a Bluetooth connection. Just swipe down on the notch and click the connect button.
Zero menu bar clutter
Most Bluetooth manager apps add another tiny, ugly icon to your menu bar. Notchy utilizes the dead space of the camera housing to show your devices beautifully.
Everything Notchy does, for free
- Fluid Dynamic Island animations on the Mac notch
- Command palette (⌃⌥K) — every action one keystroke away
- Knock — double-tap a modifier key to open the notch
- AI usage tracker (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot)
- Detach any tab into a menu-bar popover
- Now Playing music controls (Apple Music & Spotify)
- Time-synced karaoke lyrics under the notch
- Mac clipboard history shelf (password-manager safe)
- 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
- Camera Guard — alert (or block) when any app opens your camera
- 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
Mac AirPods App — FAQ
How do I check my AirPods battery on Mac?
With Notchy, your AirPods battery is beautifully displayed inside the Dynamic Island notch as soon as you open the case. You can also click the notch to see the battery levels of each earbud and the case.
How do I see AirPods battery on a Mac?
Notchy shows the case and both buds in the notch as soon as the AirPods connect, so there is no menu bar digging and no opening Bluetooth settings. It is free, with no tiers or licence key.
How do I connect AirPods to my Mac faster?
Instead of digging through the Control Center or Bluetooth settings, Notchy lets you connect to your AirPods with a single tap from the notch drop-down.