The MacBook notch showing album art on the left and an audio visualizer on the right

macOS · MacBook with a notch

Your notch, doing something.

Music with synced lyrics, a focus timer, AirDrop and a camera mirror. All in that black strip that sits there doing nothing.

See what it does
Synced lyrics

The next line lands before it is sung.

Each line takes over half a second early, so you read in time instead of chasing the vocal. Click any line to jump the song there.

Expanded panel playing Fake Friends by Kidwild, with lyrics on the right and the current line in white
Focus timer

Your work session lives on the edge of the screen.

Pomodoro with automatic breaks, or a plain stopwatch. It keeps counting with the panel closed, and the time left stays in the notch while you work.

Expanded panel with the player on the left and the pomodoro on the right, showing 30:00 and Focus 1 of 4
AirDrop

Drag the file to the top of the screen.

The drop zone opens beside the music instead of pushing the player out of the way. Drop anywhere on the panel and pick who gets it.

Expanded panel with a Drop files to AirDrop area to the right of the player
Lock screen

Still playing when the Mac is locked.

A glass player over your wallpaper, with a light blur behind it so the track and the controls stay readable on any background.

Lock screen glass player over a wallpaper, showing Rehab by Rihanna with progress and playback controls
Volume, brightness

The system overlay, minus the system.

The grey slab macOS drops in the middle of your screen moves up into the notch, in plain white. No tint, no glow, nothing covering what you were looking at.

The notch showing a volume indicator: a speaker icon on the left and a white level bar on the right
The notch showing a brightness indicator: a sun icon on the left and a white level bar on the right
Home

No music, so it becomes a clock.

Time, date and the shortcuts you actually use. AirDrop, a camera mirror to check your face before a call, and live CPU and memory.

Home screen with a greeting, the time 16:30, the date, AirDrop, Mirror and Stats shortcuts, and the pomodoro on the right

Also in the box

macOS will complain the first time

OrianNotch is not notarized by Apple, so the system warns that it cannot verify the developer. It is the same warning you get from several open notch apps. You allow it once and never again.

  1. Drag OrianNotch into your Applications folder and open it.

  2. macOS says it cannot verify the app. Click Done.

  3. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom and click Open Anyway.

  4. Prefer the Terminal? xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/OrianNotch.app

$5, once.

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