NotchFlow

Your Mac's notch, finally doing something useful 🎶

A calm little island that lives in the notch. It shows whatever you're listening to — Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube in a browser, anything — and opens into a gorgeous player when you reach for it.

The notch is just… there. NotchFlow turns that dead space into a glanceable music island — quiet when you don't need it, beautiful when you do. No accounts, no tokens, no fuss.

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✨ What it does

• 🎵 Shows what's playing — album art and a live equalizer hug the notch while music plays, just like iPhone's Dynamic Island.
• 🪄 Opens on hover — reach for the notch and it springs into a full player: cover, title, artist, and the app it's coming from.
• ⏯️ Real controls — play, pause, skip, and go back with a single tap.
• 📊 Drag to seek — scrub through the song on a smooth, live progress bar.
• 🔊 Volume at your fingertips — slide to set the system volume, right there.
• 🎨 Matches the music — the player gently tints itself to a colour from the album art.
• 🌫️ Stays out of the way — invisible when idle, and clicks pass right through to your menu bar.
• 🎧 Works with everything — Spotify, Apple Music, browsers, podcasts… if macOS can play it, NotchFlow shows it.
• 🧩 Made to grow — built on a small plugin system, so more widgets (battery, weather, calendar…) are on the way.

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👀 A closer look

Hover the notch → the island grows into the player above. Move away → it tucks itself back into the bezel.

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🎛️ Make it yours

Open Preferences from the menu-bar icon. Everything is one click:

Setting	What it does
Launch at Login	Starts NotchFlow automatically when you turn on your Mac.
Expand on Track Change	When a new song starts, the island peeks out for a moment so you catch what's playing.
Tint from Album Art	Borrows a colour from the cover so the player matches the mood of each song.
Always Show on Desktop	Keeps the island visible when you're on the Desktop / Finder.
Idle Opacity	How bright the island is when you're not using it — slide from 0% (invisible) to 100% (always solid).
Auto-hide Delay	How many seconds it waits before fading out once you stop — anywhere from 0s to 30s.

💡 Tip: hover to open, drag the bars to seek or change volume, and quit anytime from the menu-bar icon.

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📥 Get it

1. Download the latest NotchFlow.dmg
2. Open it and drag NotchFlow into Applications.
3. Launch it — a little island appears at your notch. That's it. 🎉

First time only: since the app isn't signed with a paid Apple certificate, macOS asks once. Right-click the app → Open → Open.

Prefer to build it yourself?

git clone https://github.com/VIK-DD/NotchFlow.git
cd NotchFlow
swift run                    # try it instantly
./scripts/make_dmg.sh        # or build the installer → build/NotchFlow.dmg

Needs Xcode 14+. Open the project with open Package.swift.

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💻 Works on

Runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel — one universal app, no Rosetta.

macOS	Name	Version	Status
🟢	Monterey	12	✅ Fully supported (minimum)
🟢	Ventura	13	✅ Fully supported
🟢	Sonoma	14	✅ Fully supported
🟢	Sequoia	15.0 – 15.3	✅ Fully supported
🟡	Sequoia	15.4+	⚠️ Island works, but Apple limited system Now Playing, so song info may not appear

Chip	Status
🍎 Apple Silicon (M1–M4)	✅ Native
💻 Intel	✅ Native

No notch? No problem — NotchFlow shows a neat little pill at the top-center instead.

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🗑️ Uninstall

Quit from the menu-bar icon and drag NotchFlow to the Trash. (Turn off Launch at Login first if you had it on.)

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📜 License

MIT © 2026 VIK-DD — do whatever you like with it.

Made to be calm, fast, and yours · Made in Moldova 🇲🇩