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NotchPop 1.2.2
Latest
Choose the tool the notch opens to, instead of the one you used last.
New
Settings → General → Opening has a Remember last tool switch. Turn it off and choose a tool under Open to, such as Calendar or Media, and the notch opens on that tool every time instead of the one you used last. Indicators, alerts and files you drag onto the notch still open their own tool, and a workspace that has the chosen tool switched off opens to Home.
NotchPop 1.2.1
137 fixes from a full review: WhatsApp group replies, alerts while you're away, tools that keep running after you turn them off, and more.
Fixes
A WhatsApp quick reply to a group message goes to that group, never privately to the sender or into another chat that happens to be open. When NotchPop can't tell which chat a message came from, it says so instead of guessing. WhatsApp replies show Sent only once the message has left, and an iMessage reply to an unnamed group says it goes to the whole group.
Messages from blocked senders and messages macOS marks as junk no longer pop a card, and resting the pointer on another card while you type a reply no longer takes the reply field away.
Closing the welcome tour with ⌥Space or a click ends it properly. Before, it silenced every alert for the rest of the session.
Alerts wait while the screen is locked or the display is asleep and show when you're back, instead of expiring unseen. A message stack that made way for the panel or a reminder comes back with all its chats, and opening the panel over an alert no longer leaves the panel pinned open.
A card no longer takes Return from a panel you're typing in. Alert previews in Settings no longer act on your real timers, meetings or plan limits, and the Volume and Brightness HUD previews work while the panel is open.
A reminder on screen when NotchPop quits comes back at the next launch. A reminder that comes due while you're typing one no longer throws your draft away, an overdue reminder shows its date, and opening the welcome tour over a reminder no longer loses it. The Meeting panel closes with the notch, and Calendar in the dock goes back to the agenda.
A screenshot dragged from the macOS thumbnail onto the notch is kept: NotchPop saves its own copy instead of linking to a temporary file that macOS deletes.
Shelf items on a drive that isn't connected stay on the Shelf. Folders and apps no longer open the drop panel, the drop panel closes by itself after a refused drop, and with Shelf and Images off, file drags no longer open it. Images remembers the output size you chose and no longer freezes the notch on images stored in iCloud.
Turning a tool off now stops its work: Clipboard stops reading what you copy, Sounds stop playing and don't start again at launch, Weather and Screen Time stop, Coding stops syncing and Analytics stops refreshing. A tool switched back on returns to its place in the dock, and turning off the tool on screen goes to Home.
Clipboard's type-to-search keeps the first letter you type, arrow keys and Return work with input methods in the search field, a spreadsheet cell holding a link is saved as the link, and very large copies no longer slow the notch.
Media's elapsed time follows the playback speed, lyrics load for tracks longer than an hour, and the AppleScript fallback shows the player that is actually playing. A player reporting an absurd duration no longer crashes NotchPop.
Stripe partial captures and lost chargebacks are counted correctly, Polar and Dodo no longer count a sale twice when it arrives during a sync, and Stripe test-mode charges stay out of revenue on Home and in Revenue by source. The Today chart follows 24-hour time, and AdSense works with Buddhist, Japanese, Hebrew and Islamic calendars and recovers after a failed first sync.
A saved AdSense account shows as connected from launch, tapping a Revenue tile for a source that isn't connected opens that source, and changing the display currency no longer contacts the exchange-rate service when no payment account is connected.
A Claude session waiting for you stays on the notch while other agents work, Codex activity shows for resumed sessions, and other Claude sessions no longer clear a waiting one. Claude Code hooks you removed or edited stay as you left them, and web pages can no longer show fake "Claude Code needs you" cards. After updating, restart any Claude Code sessions that were already open so they report to the notch again.
Codex plan-limit cards no longer repeat for the same window, the weekly reset label names the date when it's days away, token totals no longer count resumed sessions twice, and a revoked Anthropic key is no longer retried every minute. Day totals follow a time-zone change without a relaunch.
Meeting detection and the mute, camera and share controls work when Zoom, Meet or Teams is in another language. Declined and cancelled events are left out of the agenda, and Zoom calls opened from a calendar alert no longer get a second Join button.
Reminders typed with "tomorrow at noon", "tomorrow evening" or "tomorrow at 5" get the right time, and a reminder with a huge number in it no longer stops NotchPop saving.
"5m more" gives a real 5-minute break, a Focus card's buttons start the timer instead of toggling it, and a Pomodoro that ended while NotchPop was closed tells you so. The timer ear shows the break icon only during a break.
Stopping a server from Dev Servers no longer raises a "server stopped" alert, Stop works after a time-zone change, and healthy servers that don't speak HTTP show as running. Home's tiles now agree with their tools.
On a Mac without a notch, NotchPop stays on the main display instead of following keyboard focus between monitors, and on Larger Text display modes the notch lines up with the camera. On macOS 26 the glass alert surface no longer flashes black as a card closes.
Links saves localhost and local network addresses and finds icons for sites on other ports. Emoji search understands everyday words. The converter uses the same units as macOS (1 GB = 1,000 MB), accepts your region's decimal separator, and its Try again button works. Weather keeps your last known place instead of switching to San Francisco when it can't find you, and retries sooner after a failed update, and Scratchpad's undo no longer edits the wrong text.
Replacing your licence from an activation link checks the new key first, keeps your current licence if the new one fails, and never frees a seat on another Mac. A licence error clears once a later check succeeds.
Opening NotchPop again from Finder or Spotlight shows it, and an update check run from the disk image tells you to move NotchPop to Applications instead of blaming your connection. Choosing a Settings search result that's hidden by another setting highlights the switch that reveals it, and the activation window no longer hides the e-mail drafts it opens.
NotchPop 1.2
Apple's Liquid Glass for the open notch, alerts, HUDs and the dock on macOS 26 and later.
New
On macOS 26 and later, NotchPop uses Apple's Liquid Glass: the open notch, alerts, HUDs and the dock blur and bend what is behind them and light their own edges wherever they are see-through.
Alerts and HUDs are on glass by default, black at the camera and melting into glass below. Notch glass see-through and Dock glass see-through in Settings → Appearance bring it to the open notch and the dock.
Settings → Appearance previews the real glass over its sample desktop.
Improved
The black over the camera melts into a see-through panel instead of ending in a hard line.
With Reduce Transparency on, see-through surfaces on macOS 26 and later use Apple's frosted glass, as the rest of macOS does, instead of turning solid. Reduce effects in Settings → Appearance still makes every surface solid.
Fixes
On macOS 14 and 15, Settings → Appearance shows see-through surfaces as solid when Reduce Transparency is on, as the notch draws them.
NotchPop 1.1.9
Clearer text, buttons that react to hover and press, and smoother motion on every screen, plus seeking in Media, site icons in Links, and fixes for a launch crash, alerts that stopped after the notch opened, and a Mac that wouldn't sleep when idle.
New
Media's progress bar can be dragged to move through a track in players that support it, and clicking a Playing Next row brings the player forward.
Links shows a saved site's own icon, fetched from the site over HTTPS and kept on your Mac, or a coloured letter when it has none. Removing a site can be undone for 5 seconds while Links stays open.
Settings → General → Keyboard can change the ⌥Space shortcut that opens the notch, or turn it off, and says when another app's global shortcut already uses those keys.
Revenue and Screen Time charts show a bar's value when you point at it, Analytics shows it at once instead of in a tooltip, and the Coding heatmap shows each day's activity on hover.
In Settings → Dock & Tools, dock tiles can be dragged to reorder them, and each tool's Dock, Menu or Off choice is one compact pop-up.
A reminder's Snooze also offers 1 hour or tomorrow at 9:00, Focus's Countdown can be set with − and + from 1 to 90 minutes, and Emoji keeps a Recent page of your last 16 emoji.
Improved
Buttons across the notch and Settings light up on hover, shrink slightly when pressed and show keyboard focus, and small icon buttons are easier to hit.
Small text in the notch is larger and secondary text is brighter, more so with Increase Contrast on, and alert and message cards grow with Appearance → Content size.
The notch empties before it shrinks, alerts and HUDs open faster, and changing numbers roll into place. With Reduce Motion on, the notch fades open and closed and tools no longer slide, scale or bounce; with Reduce Transparency on, the notch, dock, alerts and HUDs are solid.
Readings beside the camera use white icons and keep colour for status. The Coding dot pulses for the first minute an agent waits for you, then stays orange, and a running timer rolls its digits once a minute.
Settings → Notch numbers custom resting slots outward from the camera on both sides, so Swap sides mirrors them. Your layout in the notch stays the same.
Shelf rows light up on hover and take an accent tint when selected, drag from anywhere on the row and show their … menu on hover. Files already on the Shelf are no longer announced as added again.
Dock & Tools no longer has its own see-through slider: Settings → Appearance holds all of them. Opacity is now Panel see-through, where 0% is solid, and your setting carries over.
Settings search finds individual settings, Disconnect sits in each account's … menu, and projects are now called workspaces, with New Workspace… and Rename Current Workspace… in the switcher.
Message and sale cards wait while a call that the meeting controls recognise is sharing your screen, and appear once sharing stops.
NotchPop does much less in the background: dev servers are checked often only while their list is open, Messages is read only while message alerts are on, Now Playing waits for changes, and the notch no longer redraws every second.
Fixes
NotchPop no longer crashes at launch when a timer was running at quit and a reminder came due while it was closed.
Opening the notch while an alert or a reminder is showing no longer stops alerts, reminders and HUDs for the rest of the session. A reminder that comes due no longer throws away a meeting card or a half-typed reply.
Your Mac sleeps when idle again: NotchPop's sound engine runs only while a sound plays, not from launch until you quit.
After the notch closes, typing goes back to the app you were using, and the notch no longer springs open after a drag or a click just beside it.
On displays without a notch, NotchPop sits just below the menu bar instead of covering menu titles and catching their clicks.
Revenue leaves out Dodo Payments refunds and lost chargebacks, fully refunded Polar orders, and Stripe charges that were never captured or were lost to a dispute; Stripe test charges show as Test mode, outside the totals. A payment in a currency without an exchange rate is named beside the total instead of blanking every total.
Figures that haven't loaded say so: Revenue by source shows “—” instead of $0.00, Home's revenue tile reads “2 of 3 sources” until every source answers, and Analytics labels older figures “Saved data”.
The Fully charged alert no longer appears at every launch, iMessages you had read no longer pop up as new after the Mac wakes, and a dev server restarting on a reload no longer reads as down.
A license moved to a new Mac, for example with Migration Assistant, reads “Activated on another Mac” and offers to move it here, and a license-server error no longer locks a paid copy.
Check for Updates no longer sticks on “Checking…”, and an update that fails to verify or install says so instead of blaming your connection.
Meeting alerts skip events you declined or that were cancelled, and reminders understand 24-hour times such as “tomorrow 10:15”.
Playing Next works in Music on Macs set to other languages, live streams no longer break Now Playing, and the play/pause key no longer acts twice.
Claude Code shows NEEDS YOU only when it asks for permission or input, and its hooks no longer reopen NotchPop after you quit it.
Screen Time counts only time you are using the Mac, and Weather no longer picks a same-named city in another country.
Clipboard history keeps every file of a multi-file copy, and inserting an emoji no longer replaces what you had copied.
The clipboard history shortcut can no longer be ⌘ plus a key, such as ⌘V, which took that key from every app, or ⌥ or ⌥⇧ plus a typing key. If yours was one of these, Settings → General → Keyboard asks you to choose another.
NotchPop no longer asks for Accessibility at every launch after you decline it, or to control Music or Spotify at first launch.
Hydration nudges now work: turn them on with the Hydration card's switch in Focus or in Settings → Alerts & Activities, and they arrive every 30 minutes. They are off by default.
NotchPop 1.1.8
The welcome tour now appears on a first install only, not after an update.
Fixes
The welcome tour appears on a first install only. Updating or reinstalling no longer brings it back; Settings → Replay Welcome Tour still shows it.
The tour's permissions screen lines up: both columns start and end together, and “On” sits where the Allow button would.
NotchPop 1.1.7
Live activities beside the notch, lyrics and Up Next in Music, a rebuilt welcome tour, and a start that no longer waits on the Keychain prompt.
New
Live activities sit beside the notch while it is closed: a focus countdown, coding activity from Claude Code and Codex, and microphone, camera and sharing controls for supported call apps. Each has its own switch in Settings → Alerts & Activities.
Music shows synced lyrics and the Up Next queue, and the artwork beside the notch is clickable.
The closed notch can show a different reading on each side of the camera. One reading on both sides is drawn once, icon on the left and value on the right.
The welcome tour is rebuilt as four screens: opening style and resting display are chosen together under a live preview, and permissions are named by what they turn on.
Improved
NotchPop starts straight away while macOS is still asking for Keychain access, and loads your accounts once you answer.
A saved DataFast, Stripe, Dodo Payments or Polar account opens on its dashboard while it loads, or when you are offline, instead of asking for a key it already has. Amounts that have not loaded read “—”, never $0.
Every tool keeps a clear margin under the camera and around the rounded corners, and panels grow with larger text and roomier density.
The notch opens, closes and resizes more smoothly, and alert cards are tidier.
Fixes
The volume HUD and keys work with outputs that only have per-channel volume, such as some Bluetooth earbuds, and follow a change of output device.
Analytics opens on the provider you last used, syncs at launch, and its demo comes back correctly after a restart.
Claude Code hooks installed by an earlier version are upgraded in place.
An account copied from another workspace connects without pasting its key again.
NotchPop 1.1.6
Revenue for any period, a Shelf that handles many files at once, glass alerts, and a long round of fixes across the notch and Settings.
New
Revenue shows Today, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, This month or All time, for the combined total or a single provider.
Shelf lists files as compact rows: select several to copy, AirDrop, convert or remove together, or drag them all out.
Images converts at the original size by default, with resize presets and a larger preview.
Choosing an emoji puts it straight into the app you were using.
Alerts and HUDs fade to glass at the bottom, with their own see-through setting in Appearance.
DataFast refreshes automatically, on the same schedule as Google Analytics.
Improved
Settings sliders are cleaner, each page opens at its top, and Settings reopens on the page you left.
Panels have rounder corners by default.
Every alert has a Preview button, and Payments and Coding settings fit narrow windows.
Fixes
DataFast connects with its current API and shows today's figures instead of all-time totals.
A volume or media HUD no longer hides a reminder that comes due.
Opening Shelf or Revenue from an alert no longer closes it straight away.
The notch no longer stays open after a cancelled file drag.
Leaving the Google Analytics demo keeps you signed in to Google.
Revenue's chart on the first day of a month and Dodo Payments history are correct.
NotchPop 1.1.5
A redesigned clipboard with image previews and keyboard shortcuts, plus cleaner Revenue, Home, Calendar and Settings screens.
New
Clipboard shows your copies as preview cards: pictures, file thumbnails, colours, links and text, with the app each came from.
Open clipboard history from any app with ⌥⌘V, and paste your ten latest copies with ⌥⌘1 to ⌥⌘0. Both are off until you turn them on.
Arrow keys, Return and typing work in the Clipboard tool, with filters for text, links, images and files.
Optional see-through panel and dock in Appearance settings.
Improved
Clipboard cards copy instantly, and images take far less memory.
Revenue's chart fills the panel, and the Home widget editor shows every widget at once.
Calendar, Coding, Sounds, Ticker and Payments settings are tidier, and tool names match everywhere.
Fixes
The Buy a license button is readable with the default Mono accent.
WhatsApp replies from the notch no longer get dropped after WhatsApp reloads the chat.
NotchPop 1.1.4
Smoother notch motion, Fahrenheit weather, currency-accurate revenue, and a round of reliability fixes.
New
Weather can show temperatures in Fahrenheit or Celsius.
Improved
The notch opens, closes and turns into the volume HUD as one continuous shape.
Revenue keeps each payment's currency and decimal places, and never totals with a guessed exchange rate.
Message cards keep contact photos with the right person and never run two replies in one chat at once.
Fixes
Reminders keep the full task text, and a running stopwatch keeps its time across relaunches.
The converter keeps decimal-comma input and shows "Invalid number" instead of changing the value.
Disconnecting an integration during a refresh stays disconnected; fast calendar and weather changes show only the latest result.
Analytics shows an unknown value instead of zero after a failed first sync.
Browser playback controls change the output volume, and album artwork stays inside its tile.
Home cards work with the keyboard and VoiceOver.
NotchPop 1.1.3
Claude activity refreshes reliably, Google sign-in completes visibly, and workspace analytics and revenue recover more smoothly.
Fixes
Claude Code refreshes without pausing the notch and connects automatically when a local session appears after launch.
Claude activity no longer counts streamed messages twice. Plan limits find sign-ins in custom configuration folders and use renewed Keychain credentials.
Connecting Google Analytics or AdSense shows the browser sign-in step and any error. The OAuth client secret is now required.
Cancelling Google sign-in stops at once instead of waiting five minutes.
Workspaces that lost Google Analytics in 1.1.2 get it back when they use the original workspace's property.
Revenue and the resting ears come back within 30 seconds of a workspace switch, even if the first sync fails.
Stripe errors say what's wrong: a rejected key, missing read access, or no connection.
NotchPop 1.1.2
Separate accounts for each workspace, flexible Home metrics, and more reliable analytics and payment figures.
New
Connect different analytics and payment accounts in each workspace, or reuse an account from another workspace.
Choose the figure each Home tile shows. Available updates also appear in the notch and on Home.
Fixes
Workspace switches clear the previous account's figures, and Google sign-in finishes only in the workspace where it started.
Pasted AdSense tokens work immediately; DataFast keeps its connected view through a temporary refresh failure.
Analytics settings show the correct provider's figures. Combined revenue no longer treats a foreign amount as USD when exchange rates are missing.
Polar keeps mixed-currency orders out of a single misleading total.
NotchPop 1.1.1
A centered, steady dock and a weather city search that understands typos.
Fixes
The dock is centered under the panel again, and the All tools library is no longer clipped.
The dock keeps one glass look instead of switching to solid black.
The weather Set button no longer collapses into an empty pill.
Improved
City search suggests matching places as you type and handles misspellings.
The chosen city is saved with its coordinates, so refreshes fetch exactly that place.
NotchPop 1.1.0
Safer message replies and alert delivery, better display handling, and more accessible notch controls.
Fixes
A new chat no longer discards a message card while you are typing a reply.
Queued alerts respect license and alert-setting changes before appearing.
Reply errors get space to display, and the notch follows display changes.
Dense tools and the dock can scroll on narrow displays.
Improved
Reduce Motion is respected across more notch interactions, with larger dismiss targets.
Settings shows alerts missed while the notch was busy; sales alerts include Polar in their description.
NotchPop 1.0.9
More reliable payment updates, safer Claude Code hooks and dev-server controls, and clearer refresh behavior.
Fixes
Stripe and AdSense keep the last good data visible when a refresh fails; Stripe also handles partial API failures and currencies correctly.
Claude Code alerts preserve your other hooks, support a custom configuration folder, and handle special characters in project names.
Manual refresh no longer checks providers when Revenue opens. New Polar payments can trigger sale alerts.
Distinct payments with the same title and amount now produce separate alerts.
Dev Servers avoids unrelated processes on common ports and checks a process before stopping it.
A server returning an HTTP error is shown as responding instead of not responding.
NotchPop 1.0.8
Claude plan limits with nothing to set up, a notch that opens at 90%, revenue that syncs on its own, and a calmer, more consistent look across every tool and Settings page.
New
Claude plan limits work automatically with the sign-in Claude Code already has. No snippet, nothing to turn on.
The notch opens when Claude or Codex passes 90% of a 5-hour or weekly limit, and again if it runs out.
Stripe, Polar, Dodo and AdSense sync on their own, every 5 minutes by default. Stripe and Dodo payments can trigger new-sale alerts.
Stop a running dev server right from the Dev Servers tool.
Claude Code finished and needs-you alerts set up in one click.
A redesigned Feedback page for bugs, ideas and questions.
Improved
Every tool shares one header style, and empty screens say what to do next in one line.
Coding connects to Claude Code or Codex by itself when it finds them.
Revenue shows when it last updated, opens on a connected provider and lists connected ones first.
Settings: one Dock / Menu / Off control per tool, grouped Alerts, AdSense inside Payments, and clearer Tool styles.
The dock's settings, pin and trial counter share one quiet pill.
Fixes
Claude plan limits never appeared for people using the Claude desktop app.
Dodo and Polar logos vanished on the selected Revenue tab.
The Settings → Notch preview crowded the notch's curved edges.
Settings → Analytics said "Manual sync" with automatic refresh on.
The DataFast connect screen cut off its last line.
NotchPop 1.0.7
Claude and Codex plan limits in the Coding tool, a new Keep Awake tool, a redesigned System tool with a one-click way into Activity Monitor, and a brand-new welcome tour.
New
Plan limits in Coding: your 5-hour and weekly limits for Codex and Claude, with reset times. Codex works on its own; for Claude, click Turn On once.
Keep Awake: stop your Mac from sleeping for 15 minutes to 8 hours, until you turn it off, or while a chosen app is open.
The System tool is redesigned around a live CPU graph, with an Open Activity Monitor button right beside it.
Choose which coding assistants appear in the Coding tool, in Settings → Coding.
A new welcome tour, drawn on the same cloud sky as notchpop.com.
Fixes
Settings → About said "Couldn't check for updates" even when NotchPop was up to date.
The welcome tour's resting-notch choice now shows up in Settings → Notch, and can't be hidden by an older setting.
NotchPop 1.0.6
Settings rebuilt in the style of macOS System Settings, notch clicks that pin the panel open, a proper activation window when the trial ends, and one haptic tick per click.
New
A new Settings window in the style of macOS System Settings, with clear sections, an icon on every setting, back and forward buttons and search.
Clicking the notch opens it pinned, so it stays open while you work. Click it again or press ⌥ Space to close.
When the free trial ends, an Activate NotchPop window offers your license key, trial status and plans in one place.
The accent colour in Settings → Appearance now colours the notch itself; the default Mono keeps the white look.
The welcome tour asks whether the notch should open on click or on hover.
Refinements
The volume and brightness HUD grows just below the menu bar, like the notch expanding.
The welcome tour has bigger text and clearer illustrations.
The theme picker is gone; it didn't change the notch.
Fixes
Clicking the notch gave two haptic ticks; it now gives one.
The dock did nothing visible while the Google Analytics or AdSense connect sheet was open.
After the trial ends, NotchPop no longer shows alerts, HUDs or tools until it is activated.
NotchPop 1.0.5
A redesigned Google Analytics connect flow, a smoother notch close, one consistent Disconnect button, and a full pass over every screen for empty space and misleading numbers.
New
Support from the app. Settings → Feedback emails bugs and questions to support@notchpop.com with your versions filled in, and posts ideas to the public board.
Connecting Google Analytics now turns the notch into a compact Google island, one step at a time, on the panel's own glass.
Stripe, Polar, Dodo and AdSense connect from one focused screen with the key field inline.
After you buy, the thanks page shows your license key with a one-click Activate in NotchPop button.
Refinements
Closing the notch is smoother: its contents fade out first, then the shell glides home.
Every connected account uses the same Disconnect button, and every disconnect, including deactivating your license, asks for confirmation first.
Switching tabs, categories, filters and days is smooth in every tool and in Settings.
Reminders, project sheets and disconnect confirmations sit on the notch's glass instead of a dimmed tool.
Coding, Notes, Calendar, Screen Time and Emoji have tighter, clearer empty states, and tools resize the moment you connect.
Settings → Coding lists Claude, Codex, Grok and Cursor with working Connect buttons.
Fixes
The Verify license screen now has Check again, and a key from a link that failed to activate is kept for a retry.
The checkout return page no longer shares your license key or email with analytics.
The Codex, Grok and Cursor logos disappeared on the selected Coding tab.
Home showed $0.00 with an upward arrow when no payment provider was connected, and only counted Stripe.
Analytics demo data was labelled Active; it now says Demo.
Weather, Units and the image converter no longer show zeros or contradictory messages while loading.
Cut-off text in Settings and Calendar, and remove buttons covering Home tile labels.
NotchPop 1.0.4
The notch now lines up exactly with your MacBook's camera housing, and the installer opens with its proper layout again.
Fixes
The resting notch, alerts and HUDs sat a few points too high and looked shorter than the hardware notch. They now match the notch height of your Mac model exactly.
The install disk image opens with its background and drag-to-Applications layout again.
NotchPop 1.0.3
Alerts sit flush with the notch and stay up exactly as long as you want, plus sturdier licensing behind the scenes.
New features
Alert duration: choose how long focus, dev server, battery, sale and other alerts stay open, from 3 seconds to until you dismiss them.
Refinements
Alerts and the open notch no longer cast a shadow, so they sit flush with the top of the screen like the hardware notch.
License checks now rely on a signed server token, making licenses harder to fake without changing anything for paying users.
Fixes
A license that was revoked and later re-enabled now starts working again on its own.
NotchPop 1.0.2
Soundscapes, rebuilt from the ground up: long, layered, seamless loops with real rain, waves, birdsong, café chatter, typing, distant fireworks and a lo-fi beat. Plus a sharper converter and a polished first-run tour.
New features
New Soundscapes engine: every sound is a 30-second layered loop rendered on your Mac, with no audible repeat or seam.
Rain with droplets and plinks, breaking waves with foam, a forest with four kinds of birdsong, a café murmur with cups and spoons, a real keyboard, distant fireworks, and an actual lo-fi beat with chords, bass and drums.
Room acoustics: café, office, forest and fireworks each play in their own space.
Converter: added INR, CAD, AUD, CNY, CHF and SGD, plus centimetres, millimetres, yards and stone.
Refinements
Sounds fade in and out smoothly instead of starting and stopping abruptly.
Converted values read naturally, with thousands separators and no scientific notation.
The welcome tour's light background now fills the entire notch, edge to edge.
Bug fixes
Converting a transparent image to JPEG gives a white background instead of black.
Converting a file from a read-only location (like a mounted disk image) now saves to Downloads instead of failing.
Live exchange rates use Frankfurter's current address directly instead of relying on a redirect.
Stop All now remembers that nothing is playing after a relaunch.
NotchPop 1.0.1
A new motion system for the notch. The panel now grows out of the camera on real spring physics, its contents sharpen out of a soft blur as it opens, and the dock floats beneath it on liquid glass.
New features
Spring-physics notch: opening, closing and switching tools now run on real springs, so the panel lands softly and can be interrupted mid-motion.
Blur-morph reveal: tool contents grow out of the notch at the panel's own scale and come into focus as it opens, then shrink back into the camera on close.
Liquid glass dock: the tool dock and its buttons use macOS liquid glass, with a soft rim and shadow so they float under the panel.
Refinements
Curvier silhouette: continuous corners throughout, wider shoulders that sweep into the menu bar, and rounder bottom corners on the open panel.
Tool switching: pages blur-crossfade while the panel springs to its new size, and the dock highlight glides to the selected tool.
Tactile dock: buttons squeeze on press and spring back on release.
New logo everywhere: the NotchPop ghost now appears in the menu bar, onboarding, Settings and the license screen.
Bug fixes
The panel's shadow no longer darkens its own surface.
The dock lane stays legible over busy windows behind the notch.
NotchPop 1.0.0
The complete native macOS productivity island is officially here. Transform your notch or floating screen bar into a private, on-device workspace for music, files, clipboard, focus, telemetry, and fast replies.
New features
Media Island: Full Spotify and Apple Music integration with interactive scrubber, live artwork, and CoreAudio speaker selector.
Drop Shelf: Instant drag-and-drop file tray with built-in on-device image conversion (PNG, JPEG, HEIC, PDF) and rapid AirDrop actions.
Focus Timer & Hydration: Pomodoro work sessions with collapsed notch countdown timer and custom alert chimes.
Developer Telemetry: Live status tracking for local Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor coding streaks without cloud sync.
Floating Island Mode: Automatic adaptation to iMacs, external displays, Mac minis, and non-notch MacBooks.
Refinements
Interactive Wordscroll Experience: Full-bleed scroll-driven word illumination and shelf customization preview.
Typography Standardization: Standardized on Inter font across all headlines, body copy, and UI elements for a unified, crisp aesthetic.
Tactile Trust Capsules: Restyled hero badges with animated live pulse indicators and native system icons.
Centered FAQ Experience: Redesigned FAQ into centered crisp white pill bubbles with 45-degree rotating plus actions.
Bug fixes
Fixed notch menu dropdown collision on multi-monitor setups with differing display scaling factors.
Resolved transient clipboard pasteboard race conditions when copying password items or concealed data.
Corrected audio device enumeration delays on CoreAudio driver re-initialization.
NotchPop 0.9.5
Multi-Mac licensing infrastructure, dedicated permissions center, and local iMessage & WhatsApp quick replies.
New features
Hardware-Bound Licensing: Added offline-first signed token licensing for 1, 2, and 5 Mac family packs.
Quick Message Replies: Inline reply HUD for incoming iMessage and WhatsApp notifications without switching focus.
Centralized Permissions Centre: Transparent view of all macOS capabilities used by each module with one-click settings access.
Refinements
Optimized idle memory footprint down to less than 28MB in standard menu bar daemon mode.
Added smooth spring physics for notch expansion and tool switching transitions.
Bug fixes
Fixed calendar event URL extraction when handling complex Google Meet and Zoom redirect links.
Prevented unnecessary Keychain authorization dialogs when launching after a system reboot.
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