Displays
Warm up your monitor without a tint
Set the panel's own white point from your Mac — 5000K to 9300K, sRGB or native — over DDC. Notchy never touches your colour output to do it.
The monitor changes, not the signal
A software tint sits between you and every colour on screen. A DDC preset moves the panel itself — which is why it survives an input switch and costs zero CPU.
Six presets that monitors honour
Native, sRGB, 5000K, 6500K, 7500K, 9300K. Trimmed to what real hardware implements instead of a spec table full of values nothing responds to.
No extension, no daemon
The same IOKit path MonitorControl and Lunar use, inside an app you already have open — nothing extra to install or keep running.
One panel for the whole monitor
Colour sits beside brightness, contrast and input and refresh rate, so the monitor's own buttons stay unused.
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
Monitor colour temperature — FAQ
How is this different from Night Shift?
Night Shift tints what your Mac sends to the screen. This changes the monitor's own white point over DDC, the same as reaching for its physical buttons. The result is a genuinely warmer panel rather than a warm-coloured overlay — and it costs nothing on the Mac.
Which presets are available?
Native, sRGB, warm 5000K, neutral 6500K, cool 7500K and cold 9300K — the subset of the DDC colour-preset table that real monitors implement. A monitor that doesn't know a given preset simply ignores it.
What monitors work?
Displays that speak DDC/CI on Apple Silicon — the same set that Notchy can drive brightness, contrast and input switching on. Monitors behind some KVMs and hubs don't expose DDC, and those show as not controllable rather than pretending to work.
Does it survive switching inputs or rebooting?
Yes, because the setting lives in the monitor, not in macOS. Switching your monitor over to a games console and back keeps the white point you chose.
Do I need a permission or a kernel extension?
Neither. It uses the same IOKit DDC path MonitorControl and Lunar use, with no extension to install and no accessibility permission for this feature.
What else can Notchy do with my monitor?
Brightness and contrast sliders, input source switching, and refresh rate selection — so a second monitor stops needing its own on-screen menu.