NotchIsland

What it does

NotchIsland turns the MacBook notch into a Dynamic Island: Now Playing from any app or browser, a notification shade, live activities, a ⌥ Space launcher, timer, calendar, shelf and more. Free and open source for macOS 13+.

NotchIsland lives inside the MacBook notch and grows out of it: what's playing, what just arrived, what's charging, what's next. One black surface, flush with the bezel, that only shows up when it has something to say. Hover for a glance, click for the full shade, press ⌥ Space to launch anything. The island stays true black so it blends with the bezel and disappears when it's idle. The TV app, Music, Podcasts, QuickTime Player, Spotify, VLC and whatever is playing in Safari or any Chromium browser: Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera. Anything that publishes to Control Center shows up, no permission needed. Every app, and every browser tab with media, is its own source; the island…from edwardrem.github.io

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