Uninstall Guide
How to uninstall Atoll
Dragging Atoll to the Trash leaves its preferences, its updater cache and a set of privacy permissions behind. Three minutes clears all of it.
Step-by-step removal
macOS will refuse to delete a running app. Click Atoll's notch or menu bar item and choose Quit. If it doesn't respond, open Activity Monitor, search for Atoll, select the process and press the ⓧ button, then Force Quit.
Open Finder → Applications, drag Atoll.app to the Trash, and empty it. If you installed it by dragging from the DMG, this is the only copy.
Atoll stores its settings under its bundle identifier. In Finder press ⌘⇧G and go to ~/Library/Preferences, then delete com.Ebullioscopic.Atoll.plist if it's there. Nothing else on your Mac reads that file.
Check ~/Library/Caches/com.Ebullioscopic.Atoll and ~/Library/Application Support/Atoll, and delete either if present. Atoll updates itself with Sparkle, which is what leaves the cache behind.
Atoll asks for Accessibility, Screen Recording, Camera, Calendar and Music access. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and remove Atoll from each list it appears in, so macOS stops holding a grant for an app that's gone.
System Settings → General → Login Items. Remove Atoll from 'Open at Login' and from 'Allow in the Background' if it's listed, then restart. Nothing should reappear in the notch.
Leaving because your Mac has no notch?
Atoll is built for the cutout on a 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro and asks for macOS 14. On a Mac mini, a Mac Studio, an older Air or a laptop docked to a big display, there is nothing for it to attach to.
Notchy draws the same Dynamic Island as a floating pill on any Mac, on any display, back to macOS 13 Ventura — and it is free, with no trial and no licence key.
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
- 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
- 133 languages, fully localized
- Native SwiftUI, tuned for Apple Silicon
Compare Notchy vs 192 Mac Apps
See how Notchy replaces dozens of single-purpose paid Mac utilities for free.
Notch & Dynamic Island
Menu Bar & HUDs
Focus & Keep Awake
Window Snapping
Clipboard Managers
Shortcuts & Launchers
Face & Proximity Unlock
System & Utilities
AI & Terminal
OCR & Color Tools
Calendar & Tasks
Lyrics & Music
Atoll — FAQ
Is Atoll free?
Yes. Atoll is free and open source. Cost is not usually why people remove it — the requirements are.
What does Atoll require?
macOS 14 and a notched MacBook Pro. If your Mac has no notch, Atoll is not an option at all, which is the most common reason people go looking for something else.
How do I fully remove Atoll?
Quit it, delete the app from Applications, clear its preferences and Application Support files, and remove it from Login Items. A drag to the Trash leaves the rest behind — the steps above cover all of it.
Is Atoll safe?
Yes — it is open source, so the code is public. It needs the usual permissions to draw around the notch, which is expected.
What works on a Mac without a notch?
Notchy renders at the top of the screen when there is no cutout, so it works on a Mac mini, an iMac, an external display or an older MacBook — and runs back to macOS 13 Ventura.