DropNotch turns the MacBook notch into a Dynamic Island for your music, files, timers, your day and your Mac. No notch? DropNotch Float sits as a pill in your menu bar.
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Files, songs, meetings and Mac alerts go in. Small, glanceable live activities come out, and they never get in the way of what you're doing.
A slim black strip that blends with the camera housing, showing one glanceable thing.
Wings grow out each side for music, timers, downloads, AirPods and more.
Rest the pointer on it. It peeks, then springs open into the full panel.
A quick expand that interrupts, then hands back. Up to four queue politely.
Apple Music and Spotify with artwork that glows in its own colours. Press Lyrics and the controls glide aside for synced karaoke lines. Podcasts get 15-second skips and a sleep timer.
Try it ↗Counting the windows on the other side
Everything's quiet up here at the top
Hold on a second, don't let it stop
Timed sessions per subject. Lock In closes YouTube, TikTok and Instagram tabs and hides distracting apps, then tracks your daily total, streak and exam countdowns. Confetti when you finish.
Try it ↗Drag a file toward the top of the screen and the notch becomes a drop target. Park files, grab your newest screenshots, re-copy anything from your last 30 clipboard items, and watch downloads and AirDrop fill a ring.
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CPU, memory and disk rings, a live CPU graph, battery health, and the apps slowing your Mac down, with a Quit button right there. A nudge to restart after a week.
Try it ↗Home sits first. Click a group and it reopens the panel you last used. Hide any panel you don't need, and an empty group disappears.
It peeks slightly bigger, then opens after 0.22 seconds. Move away and it springs back into the camera housing.
No packs, no tiers, no add-ons. Pay once and you get every panel and every live activity. No packs, no add-ons.
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We tried the notch apps already out there, and none of them were as useful as we wanted. We're Guillaume Castillo and Mitchell LeGrand, two students who use our MacBooks for everything: classes, assignments, late-night study sessions, and music playing the whole time.
They showed a song or a battery level, but not the things we actually needed during the day. So we built our own. The first version came together at the end of October 2026, with Now Playing, a file tray and a timer. Then we kept going: lyrics, Lock In for study sessions, a calendar, Mac Health. Six versions later, the notch is the most useful part of our screens.
We build DropNotch in public, test it on our own Macs every day, and fix what bugs us first.
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Make the notch the most useful part of every Mac, with an app that feels like Apple made it, barely touches your battery, and costs one fair price.
SF Pro, Apple's colours and springy, Dynamic Island motion. It should feel like it shipped with your Mac.
Built natively in Swift and designed to stay out of the way. We test every version on Macs with and without a notch.
Lyrics and weather get only a song name and a city. The camera runs only while Mirror is open.
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