Uninstall Guide
How to Uninstall MediaMate
Are MediaMate's custom HUDs glitching out or causing system instability? Here is how to completely wipe the app and its cache from your Mac in under two minutes.
Switching from MediaMate?
MediaMate replaces the volume and brightness HUD. Notchy does that too — the HUDs live in the Dynamic Island, with an option to hide the stock macOS overlay — alongside music controls and clipboard history.
Step-by-step removal
Before uninstalling, you must stop the app from running. Click the MediaMate icon in your menu bar and select 'Quit'. If it’s unresponsive, open Activity Monitor, search for 'MediaMate', and click Force Quit.
Open Finder and navigate to the 'Applications' folder. Drag 'MediaMate.app' to the Trash, then empty the Trash.
MediaMate leaves behind cached HUD settings. Open Finder, press Cmd+Shift+G, and paste ~/Library/Application Support/MediaMate. Delete that entire folder.
Go to System Settings → General → Login Items. Ensure MediaMate is removed from the list so macOS doesn’t search for the deleted app every time you boot.
Volume and brightness HUDs, in the notch.
MediaMate is a paid app for one job: restyling the volume and brightness indicator. Any HUD replacement has to keep pace with macOS updates — Notchy adapted when macOS Tahoe moved the system HUD into Control Center.
Notchy gives you gorgeous iOS-style volume and brightness HUDs inside the Dynamic Island. Built natively in SwiftUI, it intercepts system media keys with zero lag.
And Notchy is $24.99 once, with 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
MediaMate — FAQ
Is MediaMate free?
No, MediaMate is a paid app. Check the vendor's site for current pricing before assuming an old figure — these move.
Why are MediaMate's HUDs glitching?
Overlay apps fight with macOS over the same drawing space, and a macOS point release is the usual trigger. Restarting the app, then the Mac, clears most of it; if it persists after an update, the app is waiting on a fix rather than misconfigured.
How do I fully remove MediaMate?
Quit it from the menu bar, delete the app from Applications, clear its Application Support and cache files, and remove it from System Settings → General → Login Items.
Is MediaMate safe?
It is a normal signed Mac app from a named developer, not something scraped off an aggregator. It needs permissions to replace system overlays, which is what it is for.
What is a good alternative to MediaMate?
Notchy replaces the macOS volume and brightness HUDs with notch-anchored ones, and adds media, clipboard and a file shelf alongside.
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