NotchBar

are we done yet?

Your notch answers that now. Live event progress, right where you're already staring.

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macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · free & open source

10:27
Organic Chemistry 23 min left

What it does

Live progress

Hover the notch: what you're in, when it ends, and how much of it is left.

Countdown in the menu bar

The time left, next to the clock — 23 min, then 1h05. No hovering required.

Told before it ends

A notification five minutes before an event starts, and five before it's over. Off until you ask for it.

Barely there

The notch stays black until you hover, and NotchBar wakes up once every 30 seconds. Your battery won't notice.

Install

  1. Download NotchBar.dmg and open it.
  2. Drag NotchBar into your Applications folder.
  3. Open NotchBar. macOS blocks it the first time — expected for an app Apple has not notarized.
  4. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, then click “Open Anyway” and confirm.

NotchBar is ad-hoc signed, so Gatekeeper rejects the quarantine flag your browser attached to the download. You do this once; afterwards it opens with a normal double-click. The curl command below skips the step entirely.

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Prefer the terminal? Homebrew also keeps NotchBar up to date. The last line clears the quarantine flag Homebrew sets — re-run it after each upgrade. brew tap periicles/tap && brew trust periicles/tap && brew install --cask notchbar && xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/NotchBar.app

No Homebrew? This does the same, and nothing is piped into a shell. curl -fsSL -o /tmp/NotchBar.dmg https://github.com/Periicles/Notchapp/releases/latest/download/NotchBar.dmg && hdiutil attach -quiet -nobrowse -mountpoint /tmp/NotchBar.mount /tmp/NotchBar.dmg && cp -R /tmp/NotchBar.mount/NotchBar.app /Applications/ && hdiutil detach -quiet /tmp/NotchBar.mount && rm /tmp/NotchBar.dmg

Changed your mind? Turn off Launch at login, then drag NotchBar to the Trash. Full steps.