NotchOS 1.0.16

• Claude monitor: follow your Claude Code sessions in the glance, and see Claude's reply in the notch when a session finishes or needs you. Turn it on in Settings → General → Claude.
• The glance stays open as you move onto it, and the song in it has play, pause and skip buttons. Click its artwork to open the player.
• New Library style, Expanded: every app side by side in a wider notch, ready to use. Choose it in Settings → Library.
• Album art now always matches the song playing.

NotchOS 1.0.15

• When two live activities run, the second now gets its own bubble beside the notch. Tap it to open it.

NotchOS 1.0.14

• Previous and next in the music player now slide when you tap them, like in Apple Music (they stay still with Reduce Motion on).

NotchOS 1.0.13

New: Quick Notes. Hold ⌃Space and speak: your words appear in the notch as you talk, and you can type into the same note. Return saves, Esc discards. Notes live in Library → Notes, and can also go to Apple Notes.

New: Voice Memos. Press ⌃Space then V to record your voice, and again to stop. Memos are kept in Library → Notes and saved to Apple's Voice Memos (add the one-time shortcut from the set-up guide or Settings).

New music player. Album art and title with a live equaliser, time played and time left around the seek bar, and favourite and AirPlay on either side of the controls. The expanded notch and the Music page now match.

New set-up guide. Seven short pages that set NotchOS up as you go, with every permission explained. Only Accessibility is required.

Quick Notes and Voice Memos are part of NotchOS Pro (included in the trial).

NotchOS 1.0.12

Stability fix: please update.

• NotchOS no longer quits by itself when headphones, AirPods or a speaker connect. This was the cause of NotchOS silently closing every few hours.
• Fixed a rarer crash when album art, favourites and the playback position were fetched from Music or Spotify at the same moment.

NotchOS 1.0.11

• AirPods, Beats and HomePod: NotchOS now leaves the connect animation to macOS, which already shows its own, so you no longer see two. Turn it back on in Settings → Devices → "Apple devices too".
• Other headphones and speakers still get the NotchOS animation with their battery.

NotchOS 1.0.10

New

• Edge light: a soft glow around all four edges of your screen that lights your face on video calls. On screens that support HDR it's brighter than white.
• Five brightness levels, or Auto, which keeps your face well lit using the camera while it's on.
• Turns on with the Mirror, from Library → Light, or with ⌃Space then L.

Arrives as a direct update in NotchOS 1.0.8 and later.

Universal: Apple Silicon and Intel. macOS 14 or later, MacBook with a notch.

NotchOS 1.0.9

Polish

• A cleaner Pomodoro focus-sound panel.

Arrives as a direct update in NotchOS 1.0.8 and later.

Universal: Apple Silicon and Intel. macOS 14 or later, MacBook with a notch.

NotchOS 1.0.8

New

• Direct updates: NotchOS now updates itself. When a new version is out you'll see what's new, then click Install and Relaunch. Every update is signed, so a tampered download is refused. Turn automatic checks on or off in Settings → General → Updates.
• Binaural beats in Pomodoro focus sounds (best with headphones).

This is the last version you need to download by hand: from 1.0.8 on, updates arrive inside the app.

Universal: Apple Silicon and Intel. macOS 14 or later, MacBook with a notch.

NotchOS 1.0.7

Fixes

• Pomodoro now ends with the Pro trial like every other Pro feature.

Includes everything in 1.0.6: haptics, presentation mode, team clocks and Glance.

Universal: Apple Silicon and Intel. macOS 14 or later, MacBook with a notch.