Music, meetings, AirPods, downloads and more, alive in a black pill around your notch.
Full-featured trial. One-time purchase. macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon.
Live preview, click the island
Focus Studio
Start a large clock, countdown or work session straight from Settings. Choose the scale, brightness, number style, second transition and a bright single color—or mix a few into a luminous watercolor wash.
Try it: combine colors, then change the size and finish. Each finish family has five choices in the Mac app.
The same bilingual handbook lives inside Notchland. Start with the gesture people miss most, then browse every production feature with its real macOS source.
1 · Swipe or wheel up
While the full player is open, swipe up on a trackpad or roll the mouse wheel up. Horizontal movement remains reserved for previous and next track.
Swipe right on the shelf or tap the Home icon. Swipe left returns to Apps; the header buttons always work too.
Park a file on the left and drag it back out later, or drop it on the blue side to open macOS's real AirDrop picker.
Connect AirPods and the earbuds float out of their case in a rendered 3D clip, with per-bud battery under the name. Your Magic Mouse and keyboard get their own films. Wired headphones get a springy glyph.
stay here while it lasts
Compact artwork and a live waveform while you work. Click and the island opens into a full player: scrubbing, transport, a spinning 3D vinyl if you want it, and synced lyrics with word-timed holds where available. Three dots count into the first lyric and the next vocal section. Swipe horizontally to change tracks; swipe vertically to move between the player and shelf.
Alerts step in at one hour, thirty, ten, five and one minute, each with a Join button for Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex or FaceTime. The optional red progress halo traces the island during the final ten seconds.
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Design review
Notchland turns the display edge into a moment: Siri breathes in color, unlock sends green trails from the island, heat glows with urgency, and wake paints the frame blue-purple. Choose one to preview it.
The glow stays only while Siri is active.
A quiet, full-perimeter response without another card.
Thirty-plus production behaviors with individual controls in Settings. Privacy-sensitive extras such as clipboard history, Calendar and reactive audio are opt-in.
Notchland, one license
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Yes. On notchless Macs and external displays the island floats as a compact pill near the top edge, with every feature intact.
Core monitoring stays on your Mac. Calendar is used for meeting alerts, Bluetooth for device cards, and Screen Recording only for the reactive waveform. Clipboard history is off by default. Lyrics lookup and license activation make the network requests described in our Privacy Policy.
It idles as a tiny native app and monitors sleep when their feature is off. When macOS enters Low Power Mode, Notchland follows automatically: reactive audio capture stops, media becomes static and continuous visual effects pause while CPU and thermal safety alerts stay active. When macOS leaves the mode, your saved Notchland choice and visual preferences return.
Notchland 1.x updates are included. The app checks the signed Sparkle feed automatically and lets you install each notarized release; you can also download the latest build from this page.
Lemon Squeezy emails one key after purchase. Activate it on one Mac at a time in Notchland Settings. Deactivate the old Mac before moving the key to another one.
No. Notchland ships as a signed, notarized download from this page. Parts of the now-playing integration are not App Store friendly, and direct distribution keeps every feature intact.