A clock on the notch itself
On a monitor with no notch, the resting pill is a black bar doing nothing. Notchy can put the time and date there — and keep a world clock of every zone your team works in one tab away.
Time and date on the resting pill
Centred where the notch would be, in Notchy's own type. Off by default — on a MacBook the menu bar already has a clock, so this is for the screens that do not.
A world clock that stays put
Add the zones you actually care about, in the order you want to read them. No converting in your head before you send the invite.
On monitors with no notch
Notchy draws a full island on external displays and on Macs with no notch at all, including a Mac mini or Studio.
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
A clock in the notch — FAQ
Can I put a clock in the MacBook notch?
Yes. Notchy can show the time and date on the resting pill. It matters most on a display with no hardware notch, where the pill would otherwise be an empty black bar sitting over your wallpaper — the clock gives that space a job.
Is it on by default?
No. The pill clock is a switch you turn on, because on a real notch the menu-bar clock is already a couple of centimetres away and a second one is noise.
Does it work on an external monitor?
Yes, and that is the case it was built for. Notchy draws its island on displays that have no notch at all, so the clock rides along on any monitor you attach.
Can I see other time zones?
Yes — the World Clock card holds as many zones as you want, in the order you put them, so a distributed team's working hours are one glance rather than mental arithmetic.
What else is on the pill while it rests?
A ring cluster you can enable for an at-a-glance status, and whatever activity is live — a timer counting down, a track playing, a download finishing. The clock is what shows when nothing else is happening.
Is it free?
Yes. Notchy is free with no trial, licence key or subscription.