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⇧⌘V
Version 1.4 · Native Swift · macOS 14+
Essential tools
for creators,
one notch away.
Seven focused tools live at the top of your screen, inside the notch. Reach up and they are already there — no window to find, no app to launch, nothing to leave behind.
Apple silicon & Intel · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · 15-day free trial
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TEXTKick_Master_v4 — bounce notesnow
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LINKsplice.com/sounds/packs/…11m
FILEVocal_Take_07.wav24m
- HEX
- #A3E635
- RGB
- 163, 230, 53
- HSL
- 82°, 78%, 55%
Recent
Vocal_Take_07.wav18.4 MB
Cover_art_final.png4.1 MB
Stems_Midnight_Drive.zip212 MB
Midnight Drive — AlbumMusic
Client · Aurora IdentWork
Sample Library 2026Audio
- Dimensions
- 3000 × 3000
- Format
- PNG
- File Size
- 4.1 MB
- Color Space
- sRGB
- Bit Depth
- 8 bit + alpha
- Resolution
- 144 DPI
- Tempo
- ≈124 BPM
- Format
- WAV · PCM
- Sample Rate
- 48 000 Hz
- Bit Depth
- 24 bit
- Channels
- Stereo
- Bitrate
- 2 304 kbps
- Frame Rate
- 23.976 fps
- Codec
- H.264
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Duration
- 00:01:32:14
- Color
- Rec. 709
- Bitrate
- 42.5 Mbps
- Clipboard
- Color
- Assets
- Projects
- Image Info
- Audio Info
- Video Info
All seven live in the one panel — hover a glyph to switch.
The seven tools
Everything you reach for mid-session.
Each one is a single view inside the notch. Turn off the ones you don't use and the resting notch shrinks to fit exactly what's left.
Color
Sample any pixel on screen through the system loupe. HEX, RGB and HSL, with recents and favourites kept beside it.
⇧⌘C
Assets
A temporary shelf. Drop files in from anywhere, then drag them straight out into Logic, Ableton, Photoshop, Premiere or Final Cut.
Drag in · drag out
Projects
Permanent shortcuts to the folders you actually live in. One click opens them in Finder — no more digging through the sidebar.
Always one reach away
Image Info
Dimensions, format, file size, colour space, bit depth and DPI — read from the header without ever decoding the pixels.
Keeps what you've inspected
Audio Info
Duration, tempo, format, sample rate, bit depth, channels and bitrate, for every file you drop on it.
With real BPM detection
Video Info
Codec, resolution and aspect, colour primaries and transfer, bitrate and the audio track — read from the container without playing a frame.
23.976, not 24
Tempo
The BPM, even when
the file won't say.
Audio Info reads the file's tempo tag when it has one. When it doesn't — which is most of the time — the tempo is worked out from the audio itself. Spectral flux gives the onsets, and the spacing that best explains them, judged over its own multiples and checked against the low end, is the beat.
It runs on a 45-second window from a quarter of the way into the file, off
the main thread, and takes a few hundredths of a second. An estimate is
marked ≈ and can be read as double or half time, because
half- and double-time are the same evidence counted two ways.
Sparse or free-tempo material is reported as no tempo, rather than guessed at.
Vocal_Take_07.wav
≈124BPM
The notch
One object, four states.
Every state is the same view changing size, so it reads as one physical thing rather than a window appearing. Switching tools only cross-fades the contents — the motion is always the panel resizing.
Resting
A notch in the menu bar, sized to exactly the tools you have enabled, with their glyphs inside it. On Macs with a camera housing it takes the housing's width and hangs a shallow chin below.
Hover
Swells slightly, glyphs come up to full strength. Rest the pointer on it and it opens after half a second, so reaching a tool never needs a click. The dwell time is yours to set — including off.
Expanded
The same glyphs grow into the selector, then into a tool. Opening by hover deliberately does not take keyboard focus — you may still be typing in the app you were working in.
Collapsed
Closes on a click outside, on Escape, on an app switch, or — when it opened itself under the pointer — as soon as the pointer leaves. Click into it and it waits to be dismissed.
A tool carrying something says so on its glyph, so the resting notch tells you what's live without opening it. There are deliberately only two: the number of files staged on Assets, and the colour itself as a dot on Color — a number would tell you nothing about a colour.
Drag & drop
Drag a file at it and
it opens into targets.
Hold a file near the top of the screen and the notch leans out into the destinations that make sense for that file. You choose by where you let go.
| Dragged | Offered |
|---|---|
| An image | AssetsImage Info |
| An audio file | AssetsAudio Info |
| A video | AssetsVideo Info |
| A folder | AssetsProjects |
| Anything else | Assets |
macOS claims the very top edge during a drag for its Spaces switcher, so the notch never makes you reach it: the drop area extends 150 pt below the bezel and the landing zones open as soon as a file arrives there.
Assets
Audio Info
Vocal_Take_07.wav
The other half
Everything the notch has been handed, kept.
The notch is for the thing in front of you. The control panel is for all of it — a real Mac window over the same library, opening on a dashboard that leads with what your work is made of rather than how much of it there is.
Proportions, not totals
Four thousand assets reads the same whether it is stills or stems. One bar, split by kind, with the count and the weight of each under it — and every row of that legend is a way into the filter it names.
The tempo stays
A track dropped on the notch to find its BPM keeps that number here, as the figure on the card. A tempo worked out rather than read is marked ≈, so an estimate never passes for a reading. Click one and it reopens in the notch.
A fortnight of work
Files added per day, for fourteen days. A running total only ever goes up and says nothing about this week; this says which day the shoot landed, and which week nothing came in.
Shortcuts
Two keys set, nine more yours.
⇧⌘VOpen Clipboard
⇧⌘CPick Color
—Open Notch, any other tool, the control panel, Import Assets, New Project (unassigned)
All eleven are configurable in Settings ▸ Shortcuts. The other nine stay unassigned until you choose, because a global hot key takes its chord away from every other app. They are registered through Carbon hot keys, so they need no Accessibility permission.
Built the honest way
Local, native, and quiet.
Nothing leaves the Mac
Everything is processed and stored in ~/Library/Application Support/NotchForCreators.
There is no account and no analytics. The only network traffic is the update check
against this site, which you can turn off, and — once you buy a licence — the
licence check with Lemon Squeezy, which sends the key and your Mac's name.
Swift and SwiftUI only
System frameworks, nothing else. No Electron, no bundled browser, no runtime to keep alive — a 5.3 MB download that idles like a system utility.
Clipboard with manners
Capture honours the concealed and transient pasteboard markers password managers set, skips apps you exclude, and can be limited, cleared on quit, or turned off entirely.
Pricing
Try it for 15 days.
Keep it with one payment.
Every tool works for the whole trial. When it ends the notch asks for a licence key, and buying one takes a minute.
15-day free trial
It starts the first time you open the app. No account, no email and no card, and it counts down with no network at all.
One payment, no subscription
The licence is bought through Lemon Squeezy, which shows the price at checkout. Updates are free, and the app never sees your payment details.
Two Macs
One licence key activates on two Macs. Deactivate one in Settings ▸ Licence and its place is free for another.
Get Notch For Creators
One drag into Applications and it's in your menu bar. The first 15 days are free.
Download the .zip
Universal binary — Apple silicon and Intel. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
Prefer a disk image? take the .dmg — signed and notarised too, and it opens with the app and Applications side by side.
Nothing to allow, nothing to explain
The app is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarised by Apple, and so is the disk image around it. Both downloads open the way anything else on your Mac does: no warning about an unidentified developer, no trip through System Settings, and nothing to type into Terminal. Drag it into Applications and open it.
Notarising is Apple checking the build for malware and issuing a ticket that travels inside the file, so the check still passes with no network. It is also what Launch at login needs — macOS only registers a login item for a properly signed app, and that switch in Settings ▸ General now sticks.