NotchApp

NotchApp is a productivity app that turns your MacBook notch into an always-available widget hub.

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Features

• expand the notch into a larger interactive surface
• create multiple views and organize widgets across them
• choose from a carefully crafted set of built-in widgets (coming soon)
• build your own using a Raycast-inspired extensions API (coming soon)

Planned Widgets

These are some of the built-in widgets currently planned for v1.

• Home: Quick Capture, Camera Preview, Music
• Focus: Pomodoro, Notes, Ambient Sounds
• Plan: Linear, Calendar, Gmail

Requirements

• macOS 14+
• Xcode 15+

Run

./run.sh

This script builds the app in Debug and launches NotchApp.

You can also open NotchApp.xcodeproj in Xcode and run the NotchApp scheme directly.

Project Structure

• NotchApp/NotchAppApp.swift: app entry point and notch/window lifecycle
• NotchApp/NotchContentView.swift: expanded notch UI
• NotchApp/ViewSwitcher.swift: tab strip, selection, and reordering
• NotchApp/SavedViews.swift: saved view model and ordering logic
• NotchApp/NotchPanel.swift: panel behavior
• NotchApp/NotchViewModel.swift: hover, expansion, and pinned state

License

Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.