Uninstall Guide
How to Uninstall Boring Notch
Switching apps, or troubleshooting a clean reinstall? Here is how to remove Boring Notch, its settings and its cache from your Mac in under two minutes.
Step-by-step removal
Before uninstalling, you must stop the app from running. Click the Boring Notch icon in your menu bar and select 'Quit Boring Notch'. If it is unresponsive, open Activity Monitor, search for 'Boring Notch', and click Force Quit.
Open Finder and navigate to the 'Applications' folder. Locate 'Boring Notch.app', drag it to the Trash, and empty the Trash.
Boring Notch leaves behind configuration and cache files. Open Finder, press Cmd+Shift+G, and paste ~/Library/Application Support/Boring Notch. Delete that folder to clean your system. Its bundle identifier is “TheBoringTeam.BoringNotch”, so check ~/Library/Containers and ~/Library/Preferences for anything under that name too.
Go to System Settings → General → Login Items. Ensure Boring Notch is removed from the list so macOS doesn’t search for it every time you boot.
Want more than music controls in your notch?
Boring Notch is free and open source, and a good choice if that matters most to you. Notchy is $24.99 one-time, runs on macOS 13 where Boring Notch needs 14, and adds Face Unlock, AI usage tracking and a Pomodoro timer.
Notchy is built natively in SwiftUI. It consumes near-zero CPU at idle and near-zero memory, providing butter-smooth iOS-style transitions.
Unlike Boring Notch, Notchy is paid: $24.99 once, with updates included and a 7-day free trial.
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
Boring Notch — FAQ
How do I remove Boring Notch from my desktop?
Quit it from the menu bar first, then delete Boring Notch.app from Applications, remove ~/Library/Application Support/Boring Notch, and take it out of System Settings → General → Login Items. Dragging the app to the Trash alone leaves the preferences and the login item behind. Full steps are above.
Is Boring Notch free?
Yes, genuinely — free and open source, with no paid tier. Cost is not the reason anyone uninstalls it.
What should I use instead?
If the reason you are removing it is performance rather than the concept, Notchy is native SwiftUI ($24.99 one-time after a 7-day free trial) and runs back to macOS 13 Ventura. If you liked Boring Notch and simply want it working, it may be worth reinstalling cleanly before switching.
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