Ezkiel Notch 1.7.0

Reminders at the time you type, and five kinds of eyes.

• Type the time into the task: "call mum at 3pm", "ingatkan kul 3", "gym jam 7 malam", "besok jam 9", "15 menit lagi". The reminder shows as a chip before you press Return; × keeps those words as part of the task. Indonesian, Malay and English.
• Pick time… in Hunt: Today or Tomorrow, the hour and the minute (5-minute steps).
• Five eye styles (Settings › General › Closed face → Eyes): Lion, Sparkly (anime eyes with a twinkling ✕ star, glitter, a slow soft blink and an ambient glow around the notch), Cat, Cute and Robot. Each tile is a live preview.
• Roar counts WhatsApp while it's open: with "Apps that aren't open" on, the Dock fills in any app that keeps its number only there.
• Clear done in Hunt is now a small icon, so the reminder row fits.

Already on 1.5 or later? Settings › About → Update now.

Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel), macOS 13+. Ad-hoc signed: first launch via right-click → Open (or System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway), or run xattr -cr "/Applications/Ezkiel Notch.app".

Ezkiel Notch for Windows 0.10.1 (Preview)

Liquid Glass on Windows too. Preview.

• Liquid Glass: Settings › General, with the Island style on. The island turns see-through and tinted dark, with a soft sheen and a thin rim, like the Mac's. With the Sparkly eyes, their pink glow shines through it. (Windows can't blur what's behind the island, so the glass is tinted rather than blurred; text stays readable.)

Already on 0.9 or later? Settings › About → Update now.

Windows 10 (2004) or 11, x64 or ARM64. Download the zip for your PC, unzip it anywhere and run EzkielNotch.exe. This Preview isn't signed yet, so Windows asks the first time: More info → Run anyway.

Ezkiel Notch for Windows 0.10.0 (Preview)

Typing that works, reminders at the time you type, and five kinds of eyes. Preview.

• Typing fixed: the shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+N), the tray and the menu now open the island ready to type, with the caret in Hunt's New task. Clicking a field always gives it the keyboard, also with another app in front, on touch screens and with a pen. The island stays open while you type and doesn't close when it was opened with the keyboard and the mouse is elsewhere; Esc leaves the field first.
• City and other fields keep what you typed when Settings refreshes; City has a Search button.
• Type the time into the task: "ingatkan kul 3", "gym jam 7 malam", "besok jam 9", "7pm", "15 menit lagi". The reminder shows before you press Return. Pick time… sets an exact hour and minute.
• Five eye styles (Settings › Closed face → Eyes): Lion, Sparkly (anime eyes with a twinkling ✕ star and an ambient glow around the island), Cat, Cute and Robot.
• A quick click or tap on the closed island always opens it; left-handed mouse settings are respected; a failed save says so.
• If typing still doesn't reach the island on your PC, %APPDATA%\EzkielNotch\focus.log says why: send it to us.

Already on 0.9? Settings › About → Update now.

Windows 10 (2004) or 11, x64 or ARM64. Download the zip for your PC, unzip it anywhere and run EzkielNotch.exe. This Preview isn't signed yet, so Windows asks the first time: More info → Run anyway.

Ezkiel Notch 1.6.0

Notch or Island, and Ezkiel finally has eyes.

• Island: Settings › General › Style → Island. A floating pill like the Dynamic Island, rounded all round, just under the top edge (or under the camera on a notched MacBook). Switching morphs smoothly.
  • Pick Small, Medium or Large, a Tight, Medium or Roomy gap, and a shadow.
  • Liquid Glass: turn it on for real glass on macOS 26 (a dark blur on older macOS).
• Ezkiel's lion eyes in the middle of the closed notch. They blink, open wider when you hover, nap when you're away, squint when happy, narrow while Den runs, glance around while an AI agent works, and glow amber when it needs you. Prefer the lion or nothing? Settings › General › Closed face.
• Tidier peeks: on an Island or a display without a notch, peeks are one neat row sized to their text (AirPods, screenshots, downloads…).
• Charging ring: the battery level sits inside a ring that fills up and keeps circling while charging.
• Roar sees closed apps: turn on "Apps that aren't open" (Settings › Roar) and WhatsApp, Teams and others count even when they're closed. It reads the Dock's badges and needs Accessibility. Only the numbers are read.

Already on 1.5? Settings › About → Update now.

Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel), macOS 13+. Ad-hoc signed: first launch via right-click → Open (or System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway), or run xattr -cr "/Applications/Ezkiel Notch.app".

Ezkiel Notch 1.5.0

Updates in one click.

• Update now: when a new version is out, open Settings › About (or click the update peek, or the menu-bar lion) and press Update now. The app:
  • downloads the new DMG from this GitHub release;
  • checks its SHA-256 against the release's SHA256SUMS.txt;
  • checks the app inside (bundle ID, the promised version, an intact code seal);
  • swaps itself in place and reopens.
• Your data and settings stay. If any step fails, nothing is changed and you see why.
• No more "Open Anyway" after updating: a copy the app installs itself isn't quarantined, so macOS doesn't ask again.
• Progress and Cancel while it downloads. If the app can't replace itself (it's not in Applications, or the folder isn't writable), it opens the download page instead.
• Checksums for every release: they now ship with a SHA256SUMS.txt.

Note: one-click updates start working from 1.5.0. To get 1.5.0 itself, download it once from this page (1.3.1 and 1.4.0 show a Download button that opens it).

Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel), macOS 13+. Ad-hoc signed: first launch via right-click → Open (or System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway), or run xattr -cr "/Applications/Ezkiel Notch.app".

Ezkiel Notch 1.4.0

Bahasa Indonesia, weather, and three small helpers for calls.

• Bahasa Indonesia: Settings › General › Language → Indonesia (or Auto to follow macOS). The whole notch, peeks and menus are translated.
• Weather: the temperature in the header, with today's range and rain chance on hover. Type your city in Settings › Features. It uses Open-Meteo, so no account and no Location permission. Off until you pick a city.
• Prowl: a green dot while a camera is on and an orange one while a microphone is on, beside the lion in the closed notch. No permission needed.
• Mirror: check your face and hair before a call, right in the notch (button in Hunt, or the menu-bar lion). The camera runs only while it's open, and nothing is recorded.
• Sound output in Purr: switch between AirPods, the MacBook speakers, a display or AirPlay in one click.

Includes everything in 1.3.1 (safer data, calm in fullscreen, update check).

Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel), macOS 13+. Ad-hoc signed: first launch via right-click → Open (or System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway), or run xattr -cr "/Applications/Ezkiel Notch.app".

Ezkiel Notch 1.3.1

A calmer, safer notch. No new tabs. This release fixes what users of notch apps complain about most.

• Your data is safe: if the data file can't be read, it's kept (never overwritten with an empty one) and yesterday's backup is restored, with a peek telling you so. A single damaged task or note no longer wipes its list.
• Calm in fullscreen: videos, games and slides get no wings, no pill on displays without a notch, and only urgent peeks (low battery, a meeting, a due task, an agent that needs you).
• Quiet during focus: Roar and finished agents wait while Den runs.
• Hide from screen sharing: a new option keeps the notch out of Zoom, Meet and screen recordings.
• Calmer defaults: the wings show only while something is live, and the hover delay is 250 ms. Your own choices are kept.
• Update check: GitHub is asked once a day. You get a peek and a Download button in Settings › About, and you can turn it off.
• Scout fixes:
  • "Working" no longer sticks after Esc in Claude Code.
  • Opening the agent's terminal clears "needs you".
  • A dismiss button for live agents.
  • Hooks do nothing (instead of erroring) if the app is moved, and stale links repair themselves.
  • Links can't choose an app to open.
• Roar fixes:
  • System Settings and App Store update badges aren't messages.
  • Relaunching an app or waking the Mac doesn't peek old counts.
  • No duplicate rows.
• Less background work: polling pauses while the screens sleep. Purr asks for Spotify/Music access only when you open it, and VoiceOver reads peeks aloud.

Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel), macOS 13+. Ad-hoc signed: first launch via right-click → Open (or System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway), or run xattr -cr "/Applications/Ezkiel Notch.app".

Ezkiel Notch 1.3.0

The notch now tells you when people and agents need you: Roar for unread messages, Scout for AI agents.

• Roar (new tab, ⌘3): unread counts from WhatsApp, Telegram, Teams, Mail, Slack and any app with a Dock badge.
  • Only the number is read. No permission, no Full Disk Access, never the message.
  • A peek with the app's icon when a count goes up, but not while you're in that app. Click it to open the app.
  • The total shows in the closed notch. You can mute any app.
• Scout: Claude Code and Codex CLI report to the notch.
  • Connect: Settings › Roar › Connect. It adds a small hook to ~/.claude/settings.json or a notify line to ~/.codex/config.toml, backs the file up first and keeps everything else in it.
  • Closed notch: shows an agent working ✦ or waiting for you ✋.
  • Peeks: when it finishes or needs you while you're in another app. Clicking brings back the terminal or editor it ran in.
  • Badges from AI desktop apps (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) show here too.
• Any script can post: open "ezkielnotch://notify?title=Build%20done&body=All%20green", or "/Applications/Ezkiel Notch.app/Contents/MacOS/EzkielNotch" --notify "Build done" "All green".
• Tabs are now ⌘1…⌘8.

Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel), macOS 13+. Ad-hoc signed: first launch via right-click → Open, or run xattr -cr "/Applications/Ezkiel Notch.app".

Ezkiel Notch 1.2.0

Every feature now has its own name and colour, the open notch is smaller and calmer, and four new things: Rally, Pounce, AirDrop and Den stats.

• Den (focus) shows today's minutes, your streak and the last 7 days; a running session survives restarts.
• Hunt (tasks) + Rally: your next meeting on top, a peek 5 minutes before with Join for Zoom, Meet, Teams and Webex, and "in 5m" in the closed notch. Opt-in, asks for Calendar access.
• Stash (files) + Pounce: new screenshots and finished downloads appear with Copy · Stash · Show and a draggable thumbnail. Opt-in. AirDrop and Share from Stash.
• Scratch (notes + Catch), Purr (music + Chorus lyrics, artwork-coloured glow), Oasis (water), Whiskers (small notifications beside the camera).
• Smaller: 440pt wide, and only as tall as the open feature. Apple-style accents and icons, a monochrome menu-bar lion.
• Lighter: about 0.1% CPU when idle.
• Undo after deleting a note, task, clip or Stash item.
• New default shortcut ⌃⌥N (⌥⌘I clashed with the browsers' Web Inspector); pick another in Settings.
• Many fixes: peeks that could get stuck, keyboard after a hover-open, lyrics centring and retry, stale artwork, low-battery warnings, and more.

Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel), macOS 13+. Ad-hoc signed: first launch via right-click → Open, or run xattr -cr "/Applications/Ezkiel Notch.app".

Ezkiel Notch 1.1.0

Synced lyrics, small system overlays, a smaller and calmer notch, and a redrawn Ezkiel.

• Synced lyrics in the Music tab (from LRCLIB): the notch splits in two, each line lights up as it is sung, click a line to jump. The closed notch sings along underneath.
• Overlays for volume, Caps Lock and keyboard language. No Accessibility permission needed.
• Peeks when Wi-Fi drops or comes back and when AirPods or headphones connect, with the icon and value beside the camera.
• Smaller open notch (500×246 instead of 600×318), icon-only tabs, flat styling.
• Redrawn lion with clearer moods, readable at menu-bar size.
• Every new feature can be switched off in Settings. Lyrics only contact LRCLIB while they are on.

Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel), macOS 13+. Ad-hoc signed: first launch via right-click → Open, or run xattr -cr "/Applications/Ezkiel Notch.app".