Disk space, without opening Settings
“Your disk is almost full” should not be the first time you hear about it. Notchy keeps total and free space for the boot disk and every external drive in the notch, beside CPU, memory and network.
Every volume, boot disk first
The disk people mean by “my disk” leads the list, then each mounted external in the order you plugged it in. Capacity and free space on every row.
Drives announce themselves
Plugging in an external pops an island with an inline Eject, and a clean unmount confirms it. Disk images and network shares stay quiet — only real removable volumes get a card.
Next to the numbers that matter
The same card carries the system monitor — CPU, GPU, memory and network — and CPU temperature sits beside it.
Free the space, too
Notchy's archiver and image converter work on whatever is sitting in the drop shelf, which is usually where the big files were headed anyway.
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 disk space — FAQ
How do I check free disk space on a Mac?
The usual route is the Apple menu > System Settings > General > Storage, and waiting for it to calculate. Notchy puts total and free space for the boot disk and every mounted external in the system flyout on the notch, updated live, one glance away.
Does it show external drives too?
Yes. The boot disk leads, then every mounted volume in mount order, each with its capacity and what is left. Plug a drive in and it appears; eject it and it goes.
Does it tell me when a drive is plugged in?
Yes — mounting an external drive pops an island in the notch with an inline Eject, and unmounting confirms it is safe to unplug. Only genuinely external volumes trigger it, so a mounted DMG or a Time Machine snapshot does not.
What else is on the system card?
CPU load, GPU, memory pressure and network throughput, next to the drives — the numbers you would otherwise open Activity Monitor for.
Can I turn the drive rows off?
Yes. Drive capacity is a switch in Settings; turn it off and the card keeps CPU, memory and network only.
Does watching disk space cost battery?
No. The stats only refresh while the card is on screen, and Notchy stops animating anything behind a closed notch — the measured idle cost is on the CPU and battery page.