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Free for Mac and Windows

The notch of your computer, put to work.

Your plan, your focus, your music and your tasks, live at the top of the screen. Plan by talking. Everything stays on your computer.

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Free. This is the real app, recorded on a real Mac.

Features

One island. Everything you check all day.

Point at the notch and it opens. Move away and it tucks back in. Every recording here is the real app, with nothing staged.

Plan

Tell it your day. It plans it.

Each morning the island asks what needs doing. Type it, or talk to the AI and say everything you want to get done.

  • It listens, builds the plan around your meetings, says it back and asks whether it is right.
  • Press Edit to talk again. What you say next corrects the plan instead of starting over.
  • One tap on Looks good saves it, and new tasks are added for you.
Focus

Plant a tree. Stay with it.

A focus session grows a tree in the island. Finish it and it stays in your garden. Give up and it withers.

  • The Focus coach picks the task and how long to work, around your next meeting, then starts it.
  • Shield hides the apps and sites you choose while the tree grows. Any app, any website.
  • Pick a rhythm in one tap: Sprint, Pomodoro, Deep or Flow.
Tray

Drop it where it belongs.

Copy a screenshot and the island asks whether to keep it in the Tray or save it somewhere. Drag a file toward the notch and your folders appear.

  • Tiles for Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Movies, Music, iCloud Drive and any folder you add.
  • Drop on a tile and the file is there. Screenshots are moved, your own files are copied.
  • Drag anything in the clipboard list straight out into another app.
Music

Whatever is playing, right there.

Artwork, scrubber and controls for Music, Spotify or a song in your browser. Open the Music page and the volume is a dial.

  • Drag the ring for the Mac's volume, with a tick of haptics every 5 percent.
  • Press the middle to mute. The speaker you are using is shown beside the controls.
Controls

The switches you reach for, always there.

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, dark mode, keep awake, mute, AirDrop, lock and Settings, plus brightness and volume sliders, and live CPU, memory, disk and network numbers.

  • No menu bar hunting. One glance, one tap.
  • The numbers are your Mac's real ones, updated as you watch.
Try it

Turn it up.

The volume dial from the Music page, working right here.

Drag the ring. Press the middle to mute. This is the real dial from the Music page.

The app

And a calm window behind it.

Open NotchSprout from the menu bar for the whole picture: your plan, your focus history and every setting.

NotchSprout Home: today's tree, goals and what is nextNotchSprout Plan: plan with AI, brain dump and tasksNotchSprout Focus: the tree timer, the Focus coach and ShieldNotchSprout Island: arrange the closed and open islandNotchSprout Settings: general, permissions and alerts

Home. Your garden, your goals and what is next, at a glance.

And everything else it does.

Mail and meetings

A banner the moment it arrives.

Connect Gmail and Google Calendar, read only. New mail shows who it is from and the subject, and meetings come with a Join button.

GmailGoogle Calendar
Weather

The real weather, on Today.

Today's temperature and condition for where you are. It uses your approximate location, rounded to about 11 km.

Clipboard

History with AI actions.

Everything you copy, kept in memory only. Summarize it, fix its spelling, make it polite, translate it or pull out the to-dos.

Shield

Block any app or site.

Pick from every app installed on your Mac and any website. Block now, or only while a tree grows, or on a schedule.

Moments

It reacts to your Mac.

Plug in the charger, connect AirPods, a USB drive or a display, and the island shows it with the device's own icon.

Yours

Make it feel right.

Rearrange the pages, set how fast it opens and closes, and play every moment as a preview before you keep it.

Download

On your Mac. On your PC.

NotchSprout for Mac

The full app: everything on this page.

  • macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon
  • Gmail and Calendar alerts, AI planning by voice, Shield, Tray folders
Download for Mac

NotchSprout for Windows

The island for your PC, with no account.

  • Windows 10 or 11, x64 or Arm
  • Today, tasks, focus, notes, music, controls, tray and your coding agents
Download for Windows
Privacy

Read only. On your computer.

There is no NotchSprout server. What you do stays where you do it.

It stays with you.

Tasks, plans, notes, focus history and Shield lists are stored on your computer only. The clipboard history lives in memory and is never written to disk.

Google, read only.

Sign in shares just your name, email and picture. Gmail and Calendar can be read but never changed, and you can disconnect them at any time.

AI only when you ask.

The AI helper sends the text for one answer, such as task titles or what you said, and nothing else. Turn it off in Settings and nothing is sent.

Read the privacy notice

Questions.

Is NotchSprout really free?

Yes. There is nothing to buy and no plan to pick. It is free to download and free to use.

Which computers does it run on?

Macs with Apple silicon (M1 and newer) on macOS 14 or later, and Windows 10 or 11 on x64 or Arm. If your Mac has no notch, NotchSprout draws a virtual one at the top of the screen.

Do I need an account?

On the Mac you sign in with your Google account, and Google shares only your name, email and picture. The Windows app needs no account at all.

Why does my computer warn me when I open it?

This first release is not signed with an Apple or Microsoft certificate yet. On a Mac, open System Settings, then Privacy and Security, and press Open Anyway once. On Windows, choose More info, then Run anyway.

What does the app send anywhere?

Nothing goes to a NotchSprout server, because there is none. The weather uses your approximate location, rounded to about 11 km. The AI helper sends only the text for one answer, and only when you use it. You can switch it off in Settings.

Does this website track visitors?

Yes, lightly. The website uses Google Analytics to count visits, countries and downloads. The apps themselves send nothing to Google Analytics. Visitors in the EU, UK and Switzerland are not tracked unless they allow it.

Does the AI planner need anything?

It is optional. It needs a key for the AI service, and every other feature works without it: the island, tasks, focus, Shield, music, Tray, weather and alerts.

Can it change my email or calendar?

No. Gmail and Google Calendar are read only. NotchSprout can look but never send, change or delete anything, and you can disconnect either at any time.

How do I delete my data?

On the Mac, open Account and choose Delete all my data. It ends every Google permission and erases everything NotchSprout stored. On Windows, uninstall the app and delete its folder in AppData.

Put your notch to work.

Free for Mac and Windows.

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