Notchless app icon

For every Mac with a notch.

Your whole
menu bar.

The notch hides the icons you need. Notchless puts every one of them one click away.

Download for free See how it works

macOS 14 or later. Apple silicon. Under 500 KB.

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The Notchless panel: three apps listed behind the notch, ten more in the menu bar, each shown with its icon and name
Click the notch

The notch eats your menu bar.
macOS doesn't tell you.

When icons don't fit, macOS drops them. The apps keep running. You just can't reach them. On a 14-inch MacBook that happens with a dozen apps, a long app menu, or one wide icon.

3 of 13icons were invisible on the Mac in the demo above.
1 clickto see all of them again, notch or not.
0apps to quit, rearrange, or uninstall.

Features

Built to stay out of the way.

Opens the way you work.

Click the icon next to the notch. Hover the notch itself. Or press a shortcut from anywhere. It closes on its own when the mouse leaves.

●Click the Notchless icon
Hover the notch
⌘Press your shortcut

Light.

Native Swift. No Electron, no web view, no background polling.

468 KB

Keyboard first.

Open it and start typing. Return opens the match. Arrows move. Esc closes.

⌥⌘N↩esc

Hidden items stand out.

An orange dot marks every icon the notch is covering. Those sit on top, so you find them first.

Right-click any icon to hide or show it

Private.

No network code. No account. No analytics. It reads your menu bar through Accessibility and nothing leaves your Mac.

Set up in a minute.

A short onboarding walks you through permission, how to open it, and which icons stay in the menu bar. Change any of it later in Settings. Launch at login is one switch.

1Grant Accessibility
2Pick what stays visible
3Choose a shortcut

Search

Find any icon by typing its name.

No hunting for a tiny glyph. Open Notchless, type the app name, press Return. The menu opens right where it lives.

Notchless search: typing tod filters the panel down to Todoist

You decide

Keep what you use. Tuck away the rest.

Pick which icons stay in the menu bar and which live behind the notch. Your menu bar gets quieter. Nothing gets lost.

Onboarding step: a grid of menu bar apps, lit ones stay in the menu bar, dimmed ones move behind the notch

How it works

Built on the Accessibility API.

Notchless asks macOS which icons exist and where they sit. Then it shows them in a panel that grows out of the notch.

It finds every icon.

Through the Accessibility API, including the ones macOS pushed off screen.

It shows them where you look.

The notch opens into a panel. Hidden icons first, the rest below.

It clicks for you.

Pick one and its real menu opens, as if you had clicked it in the menu bar.

Specs

Built for the notch.

SystemmacOS 14 or later
ChipApple silicon
App sizeUnder 500 KB
PermissionAccessibility

Get your menu bar back.

Free to download, with no account to create.

Download Notchless

Version 1.0 · 1.3 MB zip · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon

First launch

  1. Unzip and drag Notchless to Applications.
  2. Open it. macOS will say it can't check the developer. The app isn't notarized yet.
  3. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
  4. Allow Accessibility when asked. That's how it reads the menu bar.