All the features

What you see at a glance

• Artwork, title, artist, real-time progress.
• Smooth marquee when the title is too long.
• Dynamic tinting: the notch picks up the dominant color of the artwork.
• Colored audio spectrogram and custom visualizer.

4 controllers, one UI

• System Now Playing (anything that plays, browser included).
• Dedicated Apple Music.
• Dedicated Spotify.
• Dedicated YouTube Music.

Configurable controls

• Buttons toggleable individually: play/pause, next, previous, like.
• Quick like via ⇧⌘L.
• Optional lyrics when the controller exposes them.

Color your way

• Tint slider: neutral white, artwork color, or your accent tint.
• Anti-flash when the artwork changes.

Overview

• Mini calendar that appears on notch hover.
• List of upcoming events on the right.
• Auto-scroll to the next appointment.
• Configurable first day of the week (Monday or Sunday).

Controlled display

• Choose visible calendars (personal, work, shared).
• Hide "all-day" events to keep only timed ones.
• Full or truncated titles depending on your display density.
• Reminders integrated from Reminders.app, in the same view.

Your feeds, your topic

• Add any RSS or Atom feed (blogs, media, newsletters).
• Set a topic to follow — for example "AI video, macOS, SwiftUI".
• The AI filters relevant articles, summarizes and prioritizes.

100% on-device

• Summaries generated by Apple Intelligence Foundation Models, locally.
• No feed leaves your Mac.
• Local 14-day cache to re-read a brief offline.

The timer

• Animated progress ring around the notch.
• Configurable durations: focus, short break, long break.
• Adjustable number of sessions before long break.
• Start, Pause, Skip, Reset commands.

Your habits, clearly

• Daily stats and history graph.
• Mini Focus and Cycle badges during sessions.
• Audio feedback at end of focus and end of break.
• Sneak peek: a discreet reminder when 1 minute remains.

Video call

FaceTime, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack Huddle. Dedicated indicator during the call.

Focus / Do Not Disturb

The notch reflects your active Focus mode. Visual tuned to not distract.

Screen recording

Auto-detection. Option to hide the notch during capture for a clean shot.

AirPods & Bluetooth

Connection, disconnection, battery shown in sneak peek at pairing time.

Volume & brightness HUD

Replaces the system HUD. Inline mode in the notch or classic rendering — your choice.

System events

Gradient or accent color when a notable event fires.

Downloads

Visible download animation for incoming AirDrop and browser downloads.

Active webcam

Precise detection of camera use by any app.

Sneak Peek Engine

Rotating widgets while you work: music, Focus, clipboard, volume, brightness. Configurable interval and duration.

5 themes included

• Brand — violet → cyan, NotchIA signature.
• Twilight — orange → magenta.
• Ocean — turquoise → violet.
• Forest — green → cyan.
• Black — for purists.
• Custom accent color via color picker, on any theme.

Appearance

• Uploadable app icon (yours or a custom dock).
• 3 display densities: compact, normal, large.
• Notch height: menu bar, physical notch, or custom size.
• Glow effect, shadow, animated scaling — each toggleable.
• Language: French, English, Spanish, German.

Behavior

• Gesture sensitivity (hover, drag, tap).
• Hover area extended beyond the notch.
• Configurable close delay.
• Hide the notch during screen recording.
• Show (or not) on the lock screen.
• Haptic feedback on MacBooks that support it.
• Auto screen switch in multi-display.

Keyboard shortcuts

• 7 shortcuts 100% editable.
• Open/close the notch, switch a tab, music play/pause, like, start Focus, open Shelf, etc.
• No forced combo — you remap everything.

Universal drag-drop

• Drag a file to the notch: the drop zone expands automatically.
• Stack several files in queue.
• Copy-on-drag or move, per-file choice.
• Auto-remove after sharing (toggleable).

Smart Quick Share

• Auto-discovery of compatible targets: AirDrop, Messages, Mail, WhatsApp, Slack…
• One click to send, no native Share menu.

Built-in converter

• Images: PNG, JPG, HEIC, WebP between all formats.
• PDF: PDF ↔ images conversion.
• Audio: mp3, wav, aac, m4a.
• Video: mp4, mov.

Video Download New · 2.9.2

• Paste a link, pick MP4 or MP3, download.
• MP4: highest available resolution, plays everywhere (H.264/AAC, QuickTime/Preview).
• MP3: best-quality audio extraction.
• YouTube, Vimeo, X, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, SoundCloud, Dailymotion + 1800 sites.
• 100% local: no data through any NotchIA server. Required tools installed on first use.

AI file summary on-device

• Drop a PDF, .txt, .md or .docx.
• Scrollable summary in a few seconds.
• Rainbow aura animation during generation.
• "Copy" button to grab the text.
• Apple Intelligence Foundation Models, 100% local.

Supported providers

• Claude Code (Anthropic) — reads ~/.claude/projects/*/jsonl.
• Codex (ChatGPT) — reads ~/.codex/sessions/*.sqlite.
• One active provider at a time — the one you choose.

Compact mode

• The tool currently running (Read, Edit, Bash…).
• The active session.
• Fits in the notch while you code.

Extended mode

• Dots indicator of open sessions.
• Context bar: percentage of context window used.
• Real-time token stats.
• Session picker to switch in one click.

100% local

• NotchIA reads sessions from ~/.claude/projects/*/jsonl, ~/.codex/sessions/*.sqlite.
• No network request to Anthropic, OpenAI or GitHub from NotchIA.
• Your prompts and responses never pass through our servers.

Smart history

• Up to 48 entries (configurable).
• Full-text search across the whole history.
• Grouping by source app: Safari, VSCode, Slack, etc.
• Open shortcut: ⇧⌘C.

Security by default

• Auto-clear of detected sensitive content (passwords, card numbers).
• One-click restore of a past entry.
• Nothing leaves your Mac.

On-device AI only

All summaries (Digest, Shelf) go through Apple Intelligence Foundation Models, which runs entirely on your device. No call to OpenAI, Anthropic or any other third-party provider.

Local data, never sent

Calendar, reminders, clipboard, Claude/Codex sessions, Focus status, Bluetooth state — none of that leaves your Mac.

Minimal backend

A single Cloudflare Worker, that can do only one thing: validate a license key. Zero telemetry, zero third-party analytics, no pixel, no Sentry.

Discreet anti-piracy

License verification via Ed25519 signature and PT_DENY_ATTACH in production. Transparent for legitimate users, frustrating for those trying to crack.