Alerts & Calls
Alerts land where you're looking
A banner in the top-right corner is the one part of your screen your eyes aren't on. Notchy mirrors notifications, calls and messages onto the notch instead.
Notification mirror
macOS alerts get an island on the notch — centred, close to your gaze, and gone again without needing to be dismissed from the corner.
Call island
An incoming call takes over the island the way it does on an iPhone, rather than sliding in as one more rectangle at the edge of the display.
Message island
Messages surface the same way. And Notchy is careful about it — opening Notification Center doesn't replay yesterday's WhatsApp and Telegram banners at you.
Alongside everything else
Alerts share the island space with live activities, now playing and timers — one surface for everything asking for attention.
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
Notifications in the notch — FAQ
Can I move Mac notifications away from the top-right corner?
macOS doesn't let you reposition its own banners, but Notchy mirrors them onto the notch as islands — so the thing you need to see appears in the middle of the screen's top edge, where you're already looking, instead of the far corner.
Does it show incoming calls?
Yes. A call raises its own island on the notch, in the same place as everything else Notchy surfaces — much closer to how an iPhone handles it than a corner banner is.
What about messages from WhatsApp or Telegram?
Message notifications get an island too. And opening Notification Center no longer replays old WhatsApp and Telegram banners onto the notch — that was fixed in 1.0.79.
Does this replace Notification Center?
No — it's a better place to catch things as they arrive. Notification Center is still there for the full history, and Notchy doesn't interfere with it.
Will it double up with the system banner?
The notch island is the point of the feature; you can keep macOS's own banners on or turn them down in System Settings › Notifications, depending on how much you want to see the same alert twice.