Smart Tray
Drag any file into the notch and it waits there. Drop it somewhere else later, share it over AirDrop, take a screenshot straight into the tray, or convert and resize what's inside.
Move your pointer to the notch and it opens. File tray, clipboard history, voice recorder, focus timer, calendar, media player, webcam mirror. Then it disappears back into the black.
One-time purchase · Apple-notarized · Requires macOS 26.4 or later
SCREENSHOT
https://dynamicnotch.app/download
Q3 invoice — final numbers before Friday
xcodebuild -scheme "Dynamic Notch V2.0" -configuration Release
#4C8DFF
Move your pointer onto the notch. This is the real interface, drawn to the app’s own measurements — every module is one hover away.
No add-ons, no tiers, no upsells. Everything below is in the app you buy today.
Drag any file into the notch and it waits there. Drop it somewhere else later, share it over AirDrop, take a screenshot straight into the tray, or convert and resize what's inside.
Everything you've copied, kept on your Mac and nowhere else. Passwords are deliberately excluded: copies from Passwords.app, 1Password, Bitwarden and other managers are never recorded.
Your next event sits under the notch before it starts, and reminders raise an alert you can act on without opening anything. Reads your existing macOS calendars and lists.
A Pomodoro timer that counts down in the notch instead of behind three windows. When it expires the panel opens by itself, so the end of a session is impossible to miss.
Record a thought and get it back as text. Audio is normalised before transcription, so a memo taken at arm's length from the built-in mic still comes back readable — in your own language.
See and control what's playing in Apple Music or Spotify without switching apps. Artwork tints the card to match the album. Other players are handled through the media keys.
A quick look at yourself before a call. The camera starts when you open the module and stops the moment you leave it — never in the background.
Charging state and finished downloads appear under the notch on their own, one card at a time, and rotate rather than piling up. They leave without being dismissed.
0.33%
CPU with music playing, measured on an M-series MacBook Pro
3
Languages: English, Italian, Spanish
0
Accounts, trackers and analytics SDKs
€14.99
Once. Not per month, not per version.
Written in Swift and SwiftUI — not a web page in a wrapper. Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it installs without the "unidentified developer" warning and without asking you to disable anything.
The app runs in Apple's sandbox. The microphone engages only while you're recording and the camera only while the mirror is open. Voice memos, clipboard history and the files in the tray stay on your Mac: there is no sync, no cloud, no account, and nothing to opt out of. The only network requests it makes are to activate your licence and to fetch album artwork from Apple's public iTunes API.
Prices checked at the time of writing; check the others yourself before deciding.
| Dynamic Notch | NotchNook | Boring.Notch | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | €14.99 once | $25 once, or $3/month | Free, open source |
| Apple-notarized | Yes | Yes | No — warning at first launch |
| Voice memos with transcription | Yes | No | No |
| Calendar & reminders | Yes | Yes | Limited |
| Password-aware clipboard | Yes | — | — |
Boring.Notch is free and open source and worth your time if the price is what matters — it's a different trade-off, not a worse one.
No subscription, and no paid upgrade to the next version.
€14.99
One-time · VAT included · Lifetime updates
Buy Dynamic NotchSecure checkout by Lemon Squeezy, our Merchant of Record. Requires macOS 26.4 or later.
Any Mac running macOS 26.4 or later. Check yours under › About This Mac before buying — on an older macOS the app will not launch, and that is the single most common reason for a refund request.
No. On a Mac with a notch the panel takes the exact measurements of the cutout and hides inside it. On a display without one — an iMac, a Mac mini, an external monitor — it draws a notch of the same proportions flush against the top edge, and everything works the same way. The panel lives on your primary display.
Move the pointer to the notch and the panel drops down; move away and it folds back. There is no keyboard shortcut and no menu bar icon — the notch is the interface. While the panel is closed, clicks pass straight through it to whatever is underneath.
With music playing and the media card on screen the app itself measured 0.33% CPU on an M-series MacBook Pro, down from 6.4% before the animations were rewritten on Core Animation. With nothing playing it sits near zero. It polls your music player more slowly when you're not looking at it, and stops entirely when there's nothing to show.
Voice memos, clipboard history and tray files are stored on your Mac and never uploaded. There is no account, no telemetry and no analytics SDK. Clipboard history deliberately ignores anything copied from a password manager. Transcription uses Apple's speech recognition, which by default sends audio to Apple for processing; you can switch it to on-device in the settings, at some cost to accuracy. Full detail in the privacy policy.
There's no trial yet. If the app doesn't work as described on a supported Mac and I can't fix it for you, you get your money back within 14 days — the conditions are set out in the refund policy.
Two. Verifying your licence doesn't consume an activation, so day-to-day use won't eat into it. If you replace a Mac and run out of activations, email me and I'll reset it.
No. That's unrelated GPL-licensed source code by someone else that happens to share the name. This is a separate, signed, supported product.
Email me. Updates are free for the life of the app and there is no paid upgrade to a next major version.
€14.99, once, for the black rectangle you already paid for.
Buy Dynamic Notch — €14.99