NotchDodo

Your notch, finally useful.

Music, timers, today's calendar, files, notes and your AI agents, one hover above the menu bar.

Launch price for the first 50 customers. $14.99 after that.First 50 customers. Then $14.99.

One-time purchaseLifetime licence for 2 MacsEverything stays on your MacmacOS 14 Sonoma or laterWorks on Macs without a notch

One-time purchase2 MacsmacOS 14 or later

See it move.

Ninety seconds, no voice-over. The notch does the talking.

Fourteen tools. One hover.

Every tool is a page in the panel, with its own icon on the rail. Switch off the ones you don't use and they leave.

Dashboard

Your day, on one panel.

The home page of the notch. Eight widgets on a dark panel, separated by hairlines, showing what matters right now.

Open it once in the morning and you know the shape of the day. Open it during the day and the next thing is one click away.

Today, Tasks, Notes and Reminders in miniature, each one tap from its full tool.
Launcher shows the apps in your Dock, five at a time. Day Progress tracks the workday you set in Settings and rotates a short focus tip.
Quick toggles for Dark mode, Keep awake, Screenshot, Lock screen and Empty Trash.

Pomodoro

A timer that lives where you look.

A watch-style dial with tick marks and a gold hand. Start a session and the countdown moves into the notch, so it stays in view while you work in any app.

Five modes cover the whole day: Work, Short break, Long break, Quick timer and Custom, all editable in Settings.

Every fourth completed session earns a long break, and the timer queues it for you.
Focus Target attaches the session to an event, reminder or task, so the timer knows what you are working on.
A stopwatch with laps for everything that is not a Pomodoro.

AI Usage

Know what your agents are burning.

AI Usage reads the session logs Claude Code and Codex already keep on your Mac and turns them into a live picture: tokens today, estimated cost at API list prices, and the five-hour window with its budget bar, burn rate and reset time.

Every session shows its state, Running, Waiting or Done, along with the model, the git branch and the last prompt you typed.

Model tags for Fable, Opus, Sonnet and Haiku, a CLI tag, and a seven-day chart.
While an agent runs, the notch shows a purple burn bar and the token count, and it flashes when the window crosses 80 and 100 percent.
The budget is learned from your largest past window, or set it yourself in Settings.

Everything is read locally. No log ever leaves the Mac.

Today

Today's calendar, with a Join button.

Every event for the day in a list, with a details pane that shows duration, location, notes and a countdown to the next start.

Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex and FaceTime links become one Join button, so you never hunt through an invite again.

Ten minutes before a call, the notch shows a countdown without being opened.
Events come from every calendar you have enabled on the Mac.
Calendar access is asked for the first time you open the tab, never at launch.

Reminders

Apple Reminders, ticked off from the notch.

Your real reminder lists, read through EventKit and synced back through iCloud. Nothing to import and nothing to keep in step.

Counts for overdue, due today and later, at a glance.
Quick add: type, press Return, and it lands in your default list.
Complete a reminder with one click and it is done everywhere.

Tasks

A to-do list with no setup.

For the small things that do not deserve a project. Type, press Return, done. The list is kept on your Mac and nowhere else.

Open count and a progress bar for the day.
Done items stay in a history until you clear them.
Two of them show on the Dashboard so you see them without opening the tab.

Notes

Notes that save as you type.

Keep as many notes as you like. The first line becomes the title, and everything is saved the moment you stop typing.

A list on the left, the editor on the right, New and Delete where you expect them.
Word and character counts, and the time of the last save.
Stored as plain files in your Application Support folder.

Music

Now Playing, where your eyes already are.

Artwork, a scrub bar and transport controls for Apple Music and the Spotify desktop app. While something plays, the notch shows the art and four moving bars.

Play, pause, previous and next without switching apps.
Drag the bar to scrub. The position keeps moving smoothly between updates.
Pause, and the compact art stays a minute before it steps away.

Browser playback, including the Spotify web player, is not supported yet.

Shelf

Drag a file to the notch. Deal with it later.

A holding area for files. Drop them onto the notch from Finder and they wait there until you need them. Drag them back out into Mail or Slack, AirDrop the lot, or reveal them in Finder.

Downloads land here too. A file downloading in Safari, Chrome or Firefox shows its progress in the notch, then appears on the Shelf when it finishes.

Drag out into any app that accepts files.
Right-click for Open, Reveal in Finder, AirDrop, Copy and Remove.
Missing files are dimmed rather than silently dropped.

Calculator

Type it. The answer is already there.

Maths with proper precedence, percentages the way people say them, and conversions for units and currencies. The result updates as you type and Return keeps it in a history.

Percentages: 20% of 150, 150 - 10%, 15% off 80.
Units for length, mass, temperature, volume, speed, area, time, data and energy. Currency uses the daily ECB rates.
ans reuses the last result, and quick chips fill in common conversions.

Screen Time

Which apps had your day.

Active time per app, counted only while you are actually at the keyboard. Idle time, the lock screen and sleep are left out, so the numbers mean something.

Categories such as Development, Browsing and Communication, with a donut and a bar.
A Now card for the app in front of you, and a ranking of the day.
Insights for your average and longest stretch in one app.

System Analytics

The machine, at a glance.

CPU, memory, storage, network, battery and free disk as tick gauges, in the style of a watch face. They sample only while the tab is open, so the app costs nothing when you are not looking.

Live values every two seconds while the panel is open.
Battery turns green while charging.
Network shows download and upload separately.

Mirror

A camera check before the call.

Hover, look, fix your hair, move on. A 4:3 preview from the built-in camera, mirrored the way you expect.

The camera starts when you open the tab and stops the moment the notch closes.
Camera access is asked for on first use only.
Works with external cameras when one is the default.

Support & Feedback

Talk to us from the notch.

Help, a review, general feedback, a feature request or a bug report. Write it in the panel and Continue opens an email with your macOS and app version already filled in.

Every message is read by a person.
Replies usually arrive within a day.
App help opens the questions on this page.

Support & Feedback in the NotchDodo panel

It shows up before you ask.

The notch stays black and silent until something is worth a glance. Then it grows a little, the way the island does on iPhone, and shrinks back when you're done.

Playing.

Album art on the left, moving bars on the right. Pause and it stays a minute, then steps away.

Focusing.

A running session shows the countdown and its ring. Break time turns it green.

Charging, and low battery.

Plug in and the notch says so for four seconds. Below twenty percent it warns you once.

Meeting soon.

Ten minutes before a call the countdown appears. Open the notch and the Join button is right there.

Agent running.

While Claude Code or Codex works, the tokens in your five-hour window tick up over a purple burn bar.

Download.

A file downloading in Safari, Chrome or Firefox shows its progress, then lands on the Shelf.

Built the way the island was built.

Black where the hardware is black.

The notch band and the compact pill never change colour, so they merge with the camera housing. The panel below is a solid dark dashboard with hairline dividers, so it reads on any wallpaper.

Springs, not slides.

Every size change overshoots a touch and settles, the physics Apple uses on iPhone. Digits roll like a clock. Nothing fades in for decoration.

Only what you switch on.

Fourteen tools ship in the box. Turn off ten and the rail shows four. Permissions are asked for when you open a tab, never on launch.

$4.99. Once.

Launch price for the first 50 customers. $14.99 after that.

No subscription and no account. Your licence key arrives by email and unlocks the download on 2 Macs.

Buy for $4.99

Lifetime updates
Every version, included.
14-day refund
One email, no questions.
Private by design
Nothing leaves your Mac except the licence check.

macOS 14 Sonoma or later on Apple silicon. Macs without a notch get a simulated one.

Questions

Does it work on a Mac without a notch?

Yes. On an iMac, an external display or an older MacBook the app draws a small black island at the top centre of the screen and everything behaves the same.

Which Macs and macOS versions?

macOS 14 Sonoma or later on Apple silicon. Macs without a notch get a simulated one.

Does it need an account, or send my data anywhere?

No account. Tasks, notes, the shelf, screen-time history and AI usage stay on your Mac. There are only three network calls the app ever makes: activating your licence, telling us once that a trial key was used so we know how many trials are running, and the daily exchange rates if you use currency conversion in the calculator. None of them carry anything about you or your Mac.

Which AI tools does AI Usage support?

Claude Code and the Codex CLI today. It reads the session logs they keep locally, so there is nothing to connect and no API key to paste.

Which music apps does Now Playing support?

Apple Music and the Spotify desktop app. Browser playback such as YouTube is on the list.

Does the Spotify web player work?

Not yet. Now Playing talks to the Spotify desktop app. Playback in a browser tab is not detected for now.

Which browsers work with Downloads to Shelf?

Safari, Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox. The notch shows the download's progress and the finished file appears on the Shelf.

How many Macs can I use one licence on?

2. Deactivate on one Mac from Settings and the seat is free for another.

What if it isn't for me?

Email support@notchdodo.com within 14 days and you get a full refund.

Is it on the App Store?

No. It is a direct download from notchdodo.com, so updates arrive in the app itself rather than waiting on store review.