Capture & Markup
Draw on it the second you take it
Arrows, boxes, highlighter, text and real redaction — the editor opens on capture, and the original file is never touched. Notchy, free.
No round trip through Preview
Capture, point an arrow at the broken button, ⌘C. The shot never has to become a Desktop file you open in something else first.
Redaction that actually hides
A solid block, not a blur. If you are pasting a screenshot of a terminal into a ticket, the token has to be gone rather than smudged.
Full resolution out
Marks are geometry, flattened at the capture's true pixel size — a Retina grab doesn't come out half-size or soft.
Lands on the shelf, as always
The annotated copy stages on the file shelf next to the original capture, ready to drag into a chat.
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
Screenshot annotation — FAQ
Which tools does the editor have?
Arrow, rectangle, ellipse, straight line, highlighter, text, and redaction — plus seven colours, three stroke weights, and undo/redo on ⌘Z. That is the set a screenshot actually needs: point at the thing, box the thing, hide the thing.
Does it blur sensitive information?
It redacts rather than blurs, deliberately. A blur can often be reversed enough to guess a token or an email; a solid block cannot. If you are hiding a credential in a bug report, hiding it properly is the only useful behaviour.
When does the editor open?
Right after a capture you took from Notchy, if you want it to — it is a single toggle in Settings. The shot is already on your clipboard and shelf before the editor appears, so closing it without drawing loses nothing.
Can I annotate a screenshot I already have?
Yes. Copy any image and run “Annotate Screenshot” from the ⌘K palette, which covers shots you took with ⇧⌘4 as well as images from anywhere else.
Does it overwrite my original file?
Never. Saving writes an “annotated” copy next to the capture and stages it on the shelf; the clean original stays exactly where it was. Editing is non-destructive until you export.
Will the marks look soft on a Retina screenshot?
No. Marks are stored as geometry rather than pixels and are burned in at the capture's real pixel size on export, so a Retina grab exports at full resolution with crisp arrows.