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hover the notch

The notch,
put to work.

A drag-and-drop shelf and a real-audio waveform, folded into the black your Mac was already spending.

Download for macOS v0.7.0 · macOS 26 · Apple silicon · free
01 / surface

Two tools that were never worth a window.

shelf

Drag toward the notch. Let go.

Files park there while you go find where they belong. Drag them back out to Finder, a browser, Slack. Mail attachments and images that were never files on disk are materialised on the way in.

now playing

The cover, and the actual sound.

Spotify's track sits on one side of the camera. On the other, seven bands of a real spectrum — read from the audio that is playing, not a loop pretending to be one.

02 / receipts

Measured, not claimed.

Idle CPU, notch closed0.0%
Resident memory32MB
Timers, polls, busy loops0
Redraws while closed0
Waveform refresh, while playing24FPS
Network requests1ALBUM ART

Sampled with top on an M-series MacBook Pro, notch closed, nothing playing. Everything runs on events — a playback notification, a drag crossing the screen, a pointer arriving. Nothing runs on a clock.

03 / never

What it will not grow into.