Notchly

Details

Role

Author

Started

August 2026

Language

Rust

Platform

macOS, Windows

Licence

MIT

Overview

Notchly borrows the shape of the MacBook notch and turns it into something useful: a panel that sits on the edge of your screen and opens on hover. Closed, it is a small handle — or nothing at all but a bare line, if you would rather it disappeared entirely. Hover it and it slides open into a strip, one row per widget, each showing its own live reading.

Rest on a row and that widget expands beside it in full. The panel docks to the top, bottom, left or right edge, and you decide what the closed handle shows when it is idle.

The part I care about most is the extension model. A widget is not a plugin API to learn — it is a folder of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. If you can build a web page, you can build a Notchly widget, which keeps the barrier to writing your own close to zero.

Highlights

• Docks to any screen edge; hover to expand from handle to full strip
• Built-in widgets for clock, now playing, system stats, quick launcher and clipboard history
• Custom widgets are plain folders of HTML, CSS and JS — no plugin API to learn
• Configurable idle handle, so it can be as loud or as invisible as you want
• No Dock or taskbar icon; it lives entirely on the screen edge
• Built on Tauri, so the shell is Rust and the widgets are web technology

Built with

• Rust
• Tauri
• TypeScript