Your Mac’s notch
Put to work.
See your day, control your music and keep files handy — all in one place, customised to suit you. Just 3 MB. No tracking. Pay once.
20-ish seconds, start to notch.
That's the whole video, and the whole setup
Download it free
Grab the 3 MB .dmg and drag NeatNotch into Applications. No account, no card.
Use everything for 14 days
Nothing is locked during the trial. Move your cursor to the top of the screen and it opens.
Buy now, or when you’re sure
Buy any time, even on day one. Paste the key from your email into Settings › License.
Sure, there are plenty of notch apps...But, any of them got a cassette deck?
Didn't think so. Your song loads onto a tape, the reels turn while it plays, and skipping swaps the cassette. Completely unnecessary. Ridiculously fun. And play, pause, next and previous are always one move of the cursor away.
When it's closed, it barely whispers.
A closed notch just hints that music is playing. You choose how loud that hint is — down to a single blue dot.
Every widget is your call.
Today's date, the weather, how far through the year you are, and your Mac's battery, RAM, CPU and SSD. Show all of it, or just the one thing you actually check. Try a few:
A shelf for files in transit. It tidies itself.
Drag anything onto the notch to park it. Drag it out to Finder, Mail or Slack when you're ready. Whatever you forget about quietly clears itself, so the tray never becomes another Downloads folder.
Written in Swift. Not a web browser in disguise.
Plenty of desktop apps ship a whole copy of Chrome under the hood. NeatNotch doesn't. It's a native Mac app, built in Swift, so it's small to download, light on memory and easy on your battery.
Smaller than a photo
Downloads in a blink and takes up next to nothing on your SSD.
Memory, playing or not
Leaves the RAM for the apps you actually opened.
CPU when idle
Your fans stay quiet and your battery barely notices.
Native, top to bottom
No Electron, no web views pretending to be an app. It feels like part of macOS because it is.
Light on your Mac. Out of your business.
Featherweight
You'll forget it's running. Until you need it.
Private, full stop
No analytics. No tracking. No usage data. Everything runs locally on your Mac. The only thing we ever see is a license activation.
No notch? No problem.
Works on external monitors and on Macs without a notch. Pick your primary display in Settings › General and it appears right at the top.
Made for Apple silicon
Built for M1 and newer, running macOS 14.6 or later. One license covers up to three Macs, depending on the plan you pick.
Pay once. It's yours.
Buy now, or try it free for 14 days and buy later. Same app either way: one payment, two years of updates, no subscription.
Answers before you ask
How does the free trial work?
Can I buy before my trial ends?
Is there a subscription?
Which music apps does it work with?
What are the minimum requirements?
Does it work with external monitors, or Macs without a notch?
Do you track usage or collect analytics?
How do I enter my license key?
Who is Eight Megabytes?
Press play on your notch.
Try every feature free for 14 days, or buy now and skip the wait. Either way it's one payment. No subscription, ever.