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Your day and your clipboard, one hover away.

NotchDesk turns the notch on your MacBook into a countdown to your next meeting and a shelf for everything you copy. Join a call with one key, and paste from your history in any app. It’s a native Mac app with no account and no tracking.

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Version 1.4, for macOS 14 and later, on Apple Silicon and Intel. What’s new

  • 14-day free trial
  • Lifetime from $25 for the first 100
  • No account, no tracking
  • Every update included
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Hover the notch: it works, like the real app.Tap the notch: it works, like the real app.

One click joins meetings on

  • Google Meet
  • Zoom
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Webex
  • FaceTime
  • Slack huddles
  • Whereby
  • Amazon Chime
  • Cal.com Video
  • ZoomGov
  • Outlook Safe Links

Never be late to a call again.

A minute before each meeting, the notch grows into an alert with a live countdown and one-click Join. In a hurry? Press in any app.

  • One-click Join for Meet, Zoom, Teams, Webex, FaceTime and more.
  • Time left, beside the notch while the call runs, with a heads-up if the next one starts soon.
  • Check your camera in a private mirror before you join. Nothing is recorded.

Everything about meetings

Everything you copy, one hover away.

Text, links, code, colors, images and files land on a private shelf in the notch, sorted by type and tagged with the app they came from. Click a card to paste it.

  • Search and filter by words, app or type, right in the notch.
  • Drop to stash text, images or files on the shelf for later.
  • Private by default password managers are skipped and secrets expire.

Everything about the clipboard

Paste anything without touching the mouse.

Press in any app, type a few letters and press Return. The clip is pasted right where your cursor was.

  • Built for the keyboard with ⌘1 to ⌘9 for your latest clips.
  • Pin what you reuse so it never leaves your history.
  • Paste Stack to paste a list of clips one after another.

or press ⌃⌘VEverything about Quick Paste

Find the screenshot by what it says.

Every clip in one Library (), and the text inside your screenshots and images is searchable. Search “gate 22” and the boarding pass turns up.

  • Reads text in images on your Mac, with Apple’s Vision framework.
  • Your own categories like Work or Travel. Drag cards onto them.
  • Clip reminders bring a clip back when you need it.

Everything about the Library

A toolbox lives in your notch.

Hover the notch and open Tools: a dozen small tools for the things you reach for all day, from timers to a color picker. Try a few right here.

Quick Notes

starts a note from any app.

Timer

25:00

Calculator

15% off 80

= 68

5 km in mi

= 3.11 mi

Color picker

#5B3DF5

Contrast checks for any two colors.

System monitor

CPU 18%Memory 11.2 GB

Quick toggles

And more

Screen capture and text from the screen, QR codes, download alerts, a dictionary and Translate, a Shortcuts launcher, countdowns and break reminders, and a camera mirror.

See every tool

Private by design.

Your clipboard and your calendar stay on your Mac. There’s no account, no analytics and no NotchDesk server.

  • No accountNothing to sign up for. Open the app and it works.
  • Stays on your MacYour history lives in a folder on your Mac. Sync, if you want it, uses your own iCloud Drive.
  • On-device smartsText recognition and secret detection run on your Mac.
  • Passwords ignoredCopies from 1Password, Bitwarden, Apple Passwords and other managers are never recorded.

Exactly what stays and what leavesPrivacy policy

One app where you’d usually run three

A meeting countdown, a clipboard manager and something useful in the notch usually means three apps to install, learn and keep updated. NotchDesk covers all three, and they share one hover.

Instead of a meeting bar app

  • Next event and countdown in the menu bar
  • One-click Join for Meet, Zoom, Teams and more
  • Join the next meeting from any app with
  • A meeting alert you won’t miss
  • Guests, RSVPs and notes at a glance

Instead of a clipboard manager

  • Searchable history of text, links, code, images and files
  • Quick Paste from any app with
  • Pins, categories and multi-clips
  • Paste Stack, snippets and plain-text paste
  • Search inside screenshots

Instead of a notch app

  • Hover the notch for your agenda
  • A file shelf with AirDrop
  • A “Copied” flash for every copy
  • Now Playing and battery notices
  • A top-center island on displays without a notch

NotchDesk: all three in one app, for life from $25.

The first 100 licenses are for life.

Try everything free for 14 days. The first 100 people to buy pay once and get every future update. After that, NotchDesk is a subscription.

Founders’ lifetime license

$25$49once, for life

100 of 100 leftAll 100 are taken. Thank you, founders.

For one Mac. Pay once, and every future update is yours:

For your laptop, your desktop and one more Mac; move a seat whenever you like. Pay once, and every future update is yours:

  • Meeting countdown, alerts and one-click Join
  • Agenda, reminders, quick add and the Month tab
  • Clipboard history, the shelf and Quick Paste
  • Library with text search inside images
  • Snippets, Paste Stack and text and image actions
  • Tools: notes, timers, calculator, color picker and more
  • Siri, URL actions, a command-line tool and MCP
  • Sync between your Macs through iCloud Drive
  • Every future update, for life
Buy for 1 Mac Buy for 3 Macs

After the first 100NotchDesk subscription

$9$89a montha year, 2 months free

Everything in NotchDesk on up to 3 Macs, with every update. Cancel any time.

Opens once the founders’ licenses are gone. Until then, a lifetime license costs less than three months of this.

Subscribe monthly Subscribe yearly
  • Changed your mind? You get a full refund if you ask within 14 days of purchase.
  • Taxes handled. Checkout is run by Dodo Payments, our merchant of record, which adds VAT, GST or sales tax where it applies.
  • Prices in US dollars. Dodo Payments appears on your receipt.

Questions

More answers on the Support page, or email support@notchdesk.com.

What is NotchDesk?

NotchDesk is a native Mac app that turns the notch on your MacBook into a live view of your day. Beside the notch, it counts down to your next meeting and lets you join it in one click or with a keyboard shortcut. Hover the notch for your agenda, a private clipboard history you can paste from in any app, and a Tools tab with notes, timers, a calculator and a color picker. It runs on macOS 14 or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel, and Macs without a notch get the same panel at the top of the screen.

How does the free trial work?

Download NotchDesk and open it. The 14-day trial starts straight away and includes every feature. There’s no account to create and no card to enter. There’s one trial per Mac, so reinstalling doesn’t restart it.

What happens when the trial ends?

NotchDesk asks for a license before it keeps working. Everything you saved, like your clips, notes, snippets and settings, stays on your Mac, and activating a license brings it all back straight away.

Do I pay once or every month?

The first 100 licenses are founders’ lifetime licenses: $25 for one Mac or $49 for up to three, paid once, with every future update included. Once they’re gone, NotchDesk is $9 a month or $89 a year for up to three Macs, and you can cancel any time.

Can I get a refund?

Yes. Email support@notchdesk.com within 14 days of your purchase and you’ll get a full refund. Dodo Payments, which handles checkout, pays it back to the way you paid.

How do licenses work, and can I move to a new Mac?

After checkout, Dodo Payments emails you a license key. In NotchDesk, open Settings (the gear in the menu bar dropdown), choose License, paste the key and click Activate. A founders’ key works on 1 or 3 Macs, depending on which you bought, and a subscription key works on up to 3.

Moving to a new Mac? On the old one, open Settings, choose License and click Deactivate this Mac. That frees the seat, so you can activate the key on the new Mac. Activation needs the internet once; after that NotchDesk works offline.

Lost your key? It’s in your purchase email from Dodo Payments. Can’t find it? Email support@notchdesk.com.

What does NotchDesk send over the internet?

Your calendar and clips stay on your Mac unless you turn on a feature that shares them: sync (your own iCloud Drive), Time to leave (an event’s address goes to Apple Maps) or an AI assistant you connect. Out of the box, NotchDesk makes these requests: license activation (your key and your Mac’s name) and a weekly license check (your key and its activation ID) with Dodo Payments, a daily update check that downloads notchdesk.com/version.json, and, while Spotify is playing, its album art.

A few features add their own requests, only once you turn them on: Weather sends your approximate location to Open-Meteo, Time to leave asks Apple Maps for travel times, and iCloud sync writes your clipboard history to your own iCloud Drive. Converting a currency in the calculator downloads exchange rates from frankfurter.app; only your default currency’s code is sent, never what you typed. If you connect an AI assistant through the automation server, what it reads goes to that assistant and, from there, its provider. There’s no account and no analytics.

Read the privacy policy

Will NotchDesk ask for lots of permissions?

No. Calendar access is asked for when you first open it, and Accessibility when you first paste a clip. The permissions that are new in 1.3 are asked for only when you turn on the feature that needs them, and you can say no and keep using the rest: the camera for the camera check, Bluetooth for headphone notices, location for the weather or Time to leave, Input Monitoring for snippets, and iCloud Drive for sync.

Two features are on from the start and ask the first time they’re used: Reminders (when the agenda first shows) and Now Playing (macOS asks whether NotchDesk may talk to Music or Spotify while one of them is open). You can turn either off in Settings.

The tools in 1.4 also ask only when you use them: Screen Recording the first time you capture the screen, the camera the first time you open the Mirror tab, permission to control System Events the first time you switch Dark Mode from Quick Toggles, and Accessibility if you want Lock Screen to lock straight away. Download alerts are on from the start, so macOS asks once whether NotchDesk may read your Downloads folder; say no, or turn the alert and the tile off in Settings → Downloads, and everything else carries on. Every permission, explained

My Mac doesn’t have a notch. Does it still work?

Yes. NotchDesk works best on a MacBook with a notch, but on other displays it shows a small island at the top center of the screen that you hover in the same way. The menu bar items work on every Mac.

With an external display connected, the notch stays on your MacBook’s built-in screen by default. In Settings → Displays you can put it on your main display or have it follow the mouse instead, and switch it off on any display. With the lid closed, it moves to an island at the top of your main display.

macOS won’t open NotchDesk. What do I do?

NotchDesk isn’t notarized by Apple yet, so the first time you open it macOS may block it. You need to do this once for each version you download (including updates):

  • macOS 14: in Applications, right-click NotchDesk and choose Open, then click Open again.
  • macOS 15 or later: try to open NotchDesk once, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway.

Step-by-step install guide

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Version 1.4, for macOS 14 and later, on Apple Silicon and Intel.