Notchy

✨ New in 0.3: Claude Code status in the notch · per-app volume · copy text from the screen · rain alerts · keep-awake · keyboard-cleaning lock · countdowns · snippets · a teleprompter under your webcam · notchy --peek for your own scripts.

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What it does

🎵 Music from any player. Spotify, YouTube in the browser, anything that shows up in Windows' media controls. Cover, a live equalizer, play/pause/skip, and the cover's color tints the notch. Hover the progress bar to see the time, hover a long title to read all of it. Two players open? Click the cover to switch.

🎤 Live lyrics. Synced lyrics appear line by line, even in the small notch while you work.

🔔 Notifications, in the notch. WhatsApp, Teams, Outlook… mirrored within half a second. Click one and it opens that chat or email, just like the real notification.

📞 Calls and meetings. A call pill with mute for Teams, WhatsApp, Zoom and Meet; a meeting reminder with a quick camera check and a Join button.

🧩 Two things at once. Music, a timer, a call or a download can sit side by side in the small notch; swipe to switch which one leads.

🤖 AI coding assistants in the notch. See when Claude Code, Codex, Aider, or your own scripts are working, get a heads-up the moment they need approval, and a peek when done. Settings gives you ready-to-paste hooks.

🔉 Sound page: a volume slider and mute for every app that's playing (Spotify loud, Zoom quiet), plus the output switch.

📋 Today page: your next meeting, today's tasks, water, and countdowns ("Payday in 16 days").

⏱️ Focus timer with one-tap timers (1, 3, 5, 10, 15 min), 💧 water reminder, ✅ to-do list with reminders and a week strip to plan the next days, 📅 calendar reminders from your calendar link.

📁 Shelf to park files you'll drag somewhere else (right-click to share), 📋 clipboard history (up to 50 items, text and images; passwords from password managers are skipped), 📝 snippets you type often, ⬇️ download progress from your browser, and drop a file on the notch to share it.

⚡ Shortcuts page: lock, sleep, screenshot, your own apps and links, plus ☕ keep awake (30 min to "until I turn it off"), 🧽 keyboard-cleaning lock, 🔤 copy text from the screen (Windows' own OCR, offline) and 🌗 dark mode in one click.

🎬 Teleprompter: your script scrolls right under the webcam, so you read while looking at the camera.

🌧️ Little heads-ups: rain coming in ~30 minutes, unplug the charger at 80%, a 20-20-20 eye break, and a summary of notifications you missed while presenting.

🕌 Prayer times (off by default): a heads-up 10 minutes before and a soft chime when it's time, for the weather location. Worked out on your PC (Kemenag RI, MWL and more), no internet needed. Turn it on in Settings → Prayer times.

🔊 Quick status: volume, brightness, Caps Lock, keyboard language, charging, Wi-Fi, headphones and earbuds battery, optional Bluetooth connect and low-battery alerts (mouse, keyboard, earbuds), camera and mic in use, mic mute, screenshot preview, weather, one-click audio output switch, and live network speed (↓/↑) in the open notch, optionally also in the small notch during heavy downloads or uploads.

🖱️ Gestures and keys: scroll on the notch for volume, swipe on the music page to skip songs, press and hold to keep it open, and Ctrl+Alt+N opens it from the keyboard (arrows change page, Esc closes).

🎛️ Only what you use. Every page and alert can be turned on or off in Settings, and each one has its own settings.

💊 Your style: keep the notch against the top edge or let it float just below it as a pill, and add a small status ring for battery, today's water, CPU or memory.

🖥️ More than one screen? Keep the notch on the main screen, the second one, or let it follow your cursor from screen to screen.

👀 Eyes with character. Five eye styles (Classic, Anime, Pixel, Cat, Cartoon), winks, and little reactions to alerts. The eyes can wake up only when you're idle or follow your cursor all the time; pick how bouncy the notch feels, and optionally let its glow follow your Windows accent color.

🌐 English or Indonesian, switchable in Settings. Clock follows your Windows 12/24-hour setting.

🫥 Stays out of the way. It opens only when the cursor stops on it (not when you sweep past to a browser tab), tucks into a thin line when there's a tab or button right under it, hides for full-screen video and games, and dozes off when you're idle.

For your scripts and AI tools

Anything that can run a command can put a message in the notch. Text only: nothing is ever run.

notchy --peek "Build finished" --icon done --sound
notchy --peek "Backup failed" --detail "Disk is full" --icon error

Icons: done, error, info, bell. There's also a link form, notchy://peek?text=Hello&icon=info, for apps that open URLs.

AI assistants: turn on AI status in Settings → Keyboard & system and copy the hooks shown there. Supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, Aider, or custom scripts:

• CLI flag: notchy --agent working | waiting | done [--app "MyAgent"] [--text "Detail"]
• URL (CMD): start "" "notchy://agent?app=MyAgent&state=waiting&text=Approval%20needed"

The notch pulses while your AI works, startles the mascot and pings you when it needs approval, and flashes a gentle green peek when finished.

Install

1. Download Notchy_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe from the latest release. Only download it from there.
2. Run it. Windows may warn you, because Notchy is new and not code-signed:
   • In the browser ("isn't commonly downloaded"): open your downloads, click … next to the file → Keep → Show more → Keep anyway.
   • When you open it ("Windows protected your PC"): click More info → Run anyway.
3. That's it. No admin rights, no account. Notchy updates itself from now on.

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