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.
Switching from Alcove?
Alcove is $14.99 one-time and needs macOS 15. Notchy is $24.99 once on macOS 13 and later, with a 7-day free trial, and includes clipboard history, a file shelf, focus timers and Face Unlock alongside the Dynamic Island.
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. Alcove's bundle identifier is “com.usealcove.Alcove”, so also check ~/Library/Containers and ~/Library/Preferences for anything carrying that name.
Get the same island, plus 50+ tools, on macOS 13 and later.
You paid for your MacBook once. Your notch app should work the same way: one payment, no subscription.
Notchy gives you a beautiful, fluid Dynamic Island, a clipboard history manager, a Pomodoro timer, AirPods connection tracking, and native SwiftUI performance.
It is $24.99 once, updates included — and you can try every feature free for 7 days, no card needed.
Everything Notchy does, in one app
- 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
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- 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
- Custom islands through the local developer API (off by default)
- iPhone-style call island — Answer/Decline FaceTime on the notch
- Notch Terminal — real VT100/xterm shell in a PTY, its own tab
- Camera Guard — alert (or block) when any app opens your camera
- 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
- 134 languages, fully localized
- Native SwiftUI, tuned for Apple silicon
Alcove — FAQ
Is Alcove free?
No. Alcove is $14.99 one-time and needs macOS 15 or later. It is a nicely made app; it simply is not free, which is what most people are asking when they search this.
How do I cancel Alcove?
There is nothing recurring to cancel — it is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Removing it is just uninstalling the app and clearing its files, as set out above.
How do I fully remove Alcove?
Quit it from the menu bar, delete Alcove.app from Applications, clear its Application Support folder, and remove it from System Settings → General → Login Items.
Can I get a refund?
That is between you and the vendor — check tryalcove.com for their current refund terms. If you bought through a storefront rather than direct, the refund goes through that storefront instead.
What is a good alternative to Alcove?
Notchy does the same notch media and Dynamic Island work plus 50+ tools for $24.99 once, with a 7-day free trial, and runs back to macOS 13 Ventura.
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