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⇧⌘V
Version 1.1 · Native Swift · macOS 14+
Essential tools
for creators,
one notch away.
Six 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 · Free
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Everything you've copied, one keystroke away.
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TEXTKick_Master_v4 — bounce notesnow
#A3E6352m
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
Drag straight out into Logic, Ableton, Photoshop or Premiere.
Midnight Drive — AlbumMusic
Client · Aurora IdentWork
Sample Library 2026Audio
One click opens it in Finder.
- 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
- Clipboard
- Color
- Assets
- Projects
- Image Info
- Audio Info
All six live in the one panel — hover a glyph to switch.
The six 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
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 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 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
Shortcuts
Three keys, all of them yours.
⇧⌘VOpen Clipboard
⇧⌘CPick Color
—Open Notch (unassigned)
All three are configurable in Settings ▸ Shortcuts. 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 network code, no account and no analytics.
Swift and SwiftUI only
System frameworks, nothing else. No Electron, no bundled browser, no runtime to keep alive — a 4.1 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.
Get Notch For Creators
One drag into Applications and it's in your menu bar.
Download the .zip
Universal binary — Apple silicon and Intel. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
Prefer a disk image? Take the .dmg — but read the note below first.
Read this before the first launch
This build is signed ad-hoc and not notarised, because notarising needs a paid Apple Developer ID. Two things follow from that, and neither is a sign that anything is wrong with the app:
- Take the .zip, not the .dmg. macOS refuses to even mount a downloaded disk image that isn't notarised — it calls the file damaged and offers you the Trash, with no way through. The zip has no such gate.
- Unzip it and drag the app into Applications.
- Open it once and let it be blocked. Then go to System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, and click Open Anyway next to the app's name. It opens normally from then on.
Or clear the quarantine flag yourself and skip all of it:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/NotchForCreators.appOne known limit of an unsigned build: Launch at login won't register. macOS requires a Developer ID signature for that, so the switch in Settings ▸ General will refuse to stick until the app is properly signed.