A shelf that follows you between apps
Drag anything onto the notch and it parks there. Drag it back out into Figma, Mail, Slack or Finder whenever you need it — no downloads folder round trip.
Limited offer
Your MacBook's Notch
Can Do All This
Notch Buddy brings revenue, traffic, timers, files, clipboard, system stats, and more to the space around your MacBook's notch — always just a hover away.
Launch price for the first 50 customers — $19 after that.
- One-time purchase
- Everything stays on your Mac
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Works on Macs without a notch
Integrations
Reads from what you already run on.
Connect with a restricted read-only key and the numbers land in the notch. The key stays on your Mac.
- StripeRevenue
- PolarRevenue
- Dodo PaymentsRevenue
DataFastAnalytics- More comingSoon
HomeRevenueAnalyticsScratchpadShelfCalendarTimersStatsScreen TimeWeatherClipboardNotesFilesLinksEmojiSoundsMessageClaudeUnitsHomeRevenueAnalyticsScratchpadShelfCalendarTimersStatsScreen TimeWeatherClipboardNotesFilesLinksEmojiSoundsMessageClaudeUnits
Revenue
The money, without the dashboard.
Connect Stripe, Polar or Dodo Payments with a read-only key and today's takings live in the notch. Every sale lands as a banner with the amount, and the running total stays on the glass after it fades.
- Restricted read-only keys
- Banner on every sale
Analytics
Watch the traffic without watching the tab.
DataFast plugs straight in: visitors, pageviews, bounce rate, average time, top pages and where people came from. Keep the live count on the collapsed notch and you will never open the dashboard again.
- Live visitor count
- Top pages
- Referrers
- Last 7 or 30 days
Convert and shrink without a web tool
Drop an image in and send it back out as JPEG, PNG, HEIC or PDF, with a quality dial and a max size. It happens on your Mac — nothing gets uploaded anywhere.
Clipboard
Everything you copied, one search away.
Text, links, images and files, each tagged with where it came from and how long ago. Search it, click it, paste it. The thing you copied three hours ago is still there.
- Full-text search
- Source app
- Images & files
- Word and size counts
Timers · Stats · Screen Time
Everything you keep checking, already open.
A pomodoro that remembers your cycle, a countdown, a stopwatch with laps and a hydration nudge. Next to them, the numbers you glance at all day: CPU, memory, disk, network, battery health, and exactly where the last seven days went.
Four clocks, one panel
25/5 pomodoro, quick 5m·10m·25m countdowns, a lap stopwatch, and a water nudge every half hour.
Vitals without a menu bar zoo
CPU, memory and disk as live rings, plus network throughput and real battery health.
Where the day actually went
Today's total, your most-used app, and a seven-day chart with the per-app breakdown beside it.
Claude
Your agent's day, in a heatmap.
Tokens burned today, messages, tool calls, sessions and the project you are in — plus a consistency grid that fills in as the streak grows. Built for people who spend the day in a terminal with Claude Code open.
- Tokens today
- Active streak
- Tool calls
- Sessions
- Per-project
Live Activities
It says something useful before you touch it.
Collapsed, Notch Buddy is just the notch — a black bar you already have. Give it a number worth glancing at and it becomes the smallest dashboard on your Mac.
Live visitors
Analytics keeps today's count on the glass.
Today's takings
Revenue posts every sale as it lands.
Whatever you pick
Any module can own the resting state.
Or make it say anything.
The Message module runs your own text across the notch in a dot-matrix scroll — with Bounce, Wave, Sparkle, Pulse and Rainbow animations, a colour of your choosing, and a flash when you want to be noticed.
The rest of it
The small trips you stop making.
None of these are worth an app. All of them are worth not leaving what you're doing for.
Ambience you can layer
Eight rooms to sit in. Tap tiles to fade them in together — rain under lo-fi is the usual one — set the volume, and give it a fade-out so it stops on its own.
Agenda and reminders, ticked off in place
Seven days of events with the reminders that matter beside them. Add one without opening anything.
Weather worth glancing at
Feels-like, humidity, wind and rain, the next twelve hours, and the week as a temperature range.
Search without a new tab
Google, DDG, Perplexity, YouTube or GitHub from the notch, plus the handful of sites you actually live in.
The whole emoji picker
Searchable, categorised, and right there — no shortcut to remember, no focus stolen from your text field.
One text box that never closes
For the thing you will need in ninety seconds. Pin it to the notch and it stays visible while you work.
And notes, when it's more than a line
A proper list with an editor next to it, for the thoughts that outgrow the scratchpad.
Themes
Loud or quiet. Your call.
Three looks ship with the app, and they change the panel everywhere at once. The settings window keeps macOS's own colours either way.
Electric colours with the glow turned up.
Modules
19 modules. Keep the ones you use.
Every module is a switch in Settings. Turn off what you don't need and it disappears from the dock at the bottom of the panel — the notch only carries what you actually reach for.
HomeNow playing, your next event and a quick launcher
RevenueLive Stripe, Polar and Dodo takings in the notch
AnalyticsDataFast traffic — visitors, pages and sources
ScratchpadOne always-there text box, pinnable to the notch
ShelfDrag files in, drag them out anywhere else
CalendarSeven-day agenda and reminders you can tick off
TimersPomodoro, countdown, stopwatch and hydration
StatsCPU, memory, disk, network and battery health
Screen TimeWhere the day went, app by app
WeatherCurrent conditions and a seven-day forecast
ClipboardSearchable history of everything you copied
NotesLonger thoughts, kept next to the scratchpad
FilesConvert and shrink images to JPEG, PNG, HEIC or PDF
LinksSearch the web and keep the sites you live in
EmojiThe whole picker, without the keyboard shortcut
SoundsRain, lo-fi and seven more, layered and faded
MessageRun a dot-matrix message across your own notch
ClaudeTokens, sessions and streaks for your coding agent
UnitsQuick conversions without a browser tab
How it behaves
Quiet by default. Yours by design.
A menu bar utility earns its place by being forgettable until the second you need it.
It stays on your Mac
Clipboard history, notes, screen time and file conversions never leave the machine. Payment and analytics keys are read-only, stored in your login keychain, and only ever talk to the provider you connected.
It gets out of the way
Open on hover with a delay you set, hide automatically while an app is fullscreen, and haptic feedback if your trackpad supports it. It is a notch, not another window to arrange.
No notch? No problem
Turn on the simulated notch and Notch Buddy draws one on any Mac — external displays and older MacBooks included. Pick which display it lives on, or leave it automatic.
One purchase, no account
Buy it once, use it forever. Nothing to sign into, no subscription, no telemetry. macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon and Intel.
Pricing
One price. Lifetime access.
Buy it once and it is yours, updates included. If it doesn't fit how you work, email within 14 days and we'll refund it.
Notch Buddy for macOS
macOS 14 Sonoma or later
$5$19
Launch price for the first 50 customers — $19 after that
- One-time payment, no subscription
- All 19 modules unlocked from day one
- Lifetime updates
- All three themes
- Native macOS app, Apple silicon and Intel
- 14-day money-back guarantee
Prices in USD, excluding VAT, and may vary by location.
FAQ
Before you download.
The things people ask most often about privacy, compatibility and what it costs.
Does it work on a Mac without a notch?
Yes. Turn on the simulated notch in Settings and Notch Buddy draws one at the top of the screen, so it works the same on a MacBook Air without a notch, an iMac, or an external display. You can also pick which display it lives on, or leave it automatic.
Where does my data go?
Nowhere. Clipboard history, notes, screen time, shelf files and image conversions all stay on your Mac. The only things that reach the internet are the services you connect yourself — your payment provider and your analytics — and those are queried directly.
Is it safe to connect Stripe?
Notch Buddy asks for a restricted key with read access to balance transactions only. It can read what you have earned and nothing else — it cannot move money, refund, or change anything on your account.
How do I open it?
Hover the notch. There is an adjustable delay so a passing cursor doesn't trigger it, and you can switch hover-to-open off entirely if you would rather click.
Will it get in the way when I'm presenting or watching something?
It hides itself while an app is fullscreen by default, and the collapsed state is only as tall as the notch you already have.
Do I need all of the modules?
No — every one of the 19 modules is a switch. Turn off what you don't use and it leaves the dock inside the panel entirely.
Is it a subscription?
No. One payment, lifetime access, updates included. There is no account to create and nothing to renew.
Give the notch
something to do.
19 modules, three themes, one purchase. A useful notch for everything you do in daily life.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon & Intel