Productivity Toolkit
Free Mac Color Picker& Eyedropper
Sample any pixel on screen — the hex is on your clipboard before the loupe fades. Notchy gives designers and developers a free eyedropper that lives in the notch.
Pick → paste, nothing between
One trigger, one click, and the hex code is on your clipboard. No palette window to manage, no format dialog — the common case is instant.
No permission dance
Built on Apple's system color sampler, so there's no screen-recording permission prompt. The magnifier loupe is the same one macOS uses everywhere.
History for free
Every picked color flows into Notchy's clipboard history with a swatch preview — pin your brand colors and they never fall off the list.
Free where others charge
ColorSlurp Pro and Sip both meter their best features behind subscriptions. Notchy's eyedropper — like everything else it ships — is $0.
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
- 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
Mac Color Picker — FAQ
How do I pick a color from my screen with Notchy?
Trigger the eyedropper from the notch and the system magnifier loupe appears — click any pixel anywhere on screen. The color's hex code is copied to your clipboard instantly and a color island confirms the pick.
Is Notchy a free ColorSlurp or Sip alternative?
For the core job — sample a pixel, get the hex — yes, and it's free. ColorSlurp and Sip lock formats and history behind Pro tiers; Notchy's eyedropper costs nothing, and picked colors sit in your clipboard history automatically.
Does it need screen-recording permission?
No. Notchy uses Apple's NSColorSampler, a system service — so there's no screen-recording permission prompt and no capture of your screen by the app itself.
Where do my picked colors go?
The hex lands on your clipboard, ready to paste into CSS, Figma, or Xcode — and because Notchy has clipboard history, every color you've ever picked is scrollable and pinnable in the Clipboard tab, with smart color-swatch previews.