Uninstall Guide
How to Uninstall Alcove
Nobody wants to pay an ongoing subscription just to use their MacBook notch. Here is how to cleanly uninstall Alcove from your system and cancel your billing.
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Why pay a $17 one-time fee or monthly subscriptions just for basic screen cosmetics? Alcove locks you into payment for visual widgets while lacking essential daily utilities like a clipboard history drawer or focus timers.
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Step-by-step removal
Before uninstalling, ensure you won't be charged again. If you bought Alcove through Lemon Squeezy or their website, check your email for the subscription management link and cancel the recurring billing.
Click the Alcove icon in your macOS menu bar and select 'Quit'. If it is frozen, open Activity Monitor, search for 'Alcove', and click the stop icon to force quit it.
Open Finder, go to the 'Applications' folder, and drag 'Alcove.app' to the Trash. Empty your Trash.
Open Finder, press Cmd+Shift+G, and paste `~/Library/Application Support/Alcove`. Delete the folder to completely wipe your configuration data and cached files from the system.
Stop paying absurd subscriptions for basic Mac features.
You paid $2,000 for a MacBook. The fact that developers are trying to charge you a recurring monthly subscription just to use the notch on your own screen is insane.
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Everything Notchy does, for free
- Fluid Dynamic Island animations on the Mac notch
- Now Playing music controls (Apple Music & Spotify)
- Time-synced karaoke lyrics under the notch
- Mac clipboard history shelf (password-manager safe)
- 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
- 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
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