Turn the notch into your focus surface.
A native macOS app that turns the MacBook notch into an ambient surface for calendar, todos, focus, and your own extensions.
Calendar,
in your notch.
Todos,
in your notch.
Focus,
in your notch.
Your day, glanceable
Upcoming events sit in the notch, two seconds away.
Focus by friction
Your top tasks are visible without opening anything.
Deep work, ambient
A countdown ring you can see without looking at it.
A timer for every kind of work.
Pomodoro is the default. The notch will also count meetings, builds, talks, or any countdown you can dream up.
Pomodoro. The classic. Configurable session length, automatic break tracking.
Meeting timer. Watch the clock without staring at it.
Build watcher. Ambient indicator while xcodebuild runs.
Talk timer. Stay on time at conferences.
An open surface.
A native Swift SDK ships with v1. Anyone can write a .notchext extension. It lives in the notch alongside Notchwell's defaults.
Build Status
Watch CI without alt-tabbing. Color flips red on failure.
Inbox
Unread counts for any inbox: email, Linear, Slack, Notion.
Now Playing
Spotify, Apple Music, anything with media keys. Click to pause.
Webhook Trigger
Bind any notch click to any HTTP call. Your script, your shortcut.
More examples and the SDK docs ship with v1.
Respects your Focus.
The macOS operating system knows when you're working, sleeping, or in a meeting. Notchwell listens to your macOS Focus and changes how loud it gets. You decide what each mode does.
Do Not Disturb
Goes quiet. Only critical timers stay visible. Everything else waits.
Work
Full ambient surface. Calendar, focus timer, build status, the works.
Personal
Only ambient stuff. Now playing, calendar, no work notifications.
Plus any custom macOS Focus you create. Configurable per mode.
Get early access.
Notchwell ships in 2026. Be among the first 100 to use it.