HushtopLooking for a Boring Notch alternative?
The Boring Notch is free and open source, and for many people it was the first notch app they tried. If you’re looking around, here’s what Hushtop does, so you can compare for yourself.
If you’re coming from The Boring Notch
Hushtop is a paid app, and this is what the money buys: one maker shipping updates on a schedule, signed and notarized builds, a help centre, and modules that go past music: meetings, AirPods, a file shelf, clipboard history, vitals, and your Claude Code and Codex agents. Try it free for 7 days first; the trial needs no account.
What Hushtop does
- Music with synced lyrics in the notch, for Spotify, Apple Music and a browser tab.
- Meetings with a countdown and Join, AirPods battery for each bud and the case, timers and charging.
- A drop shelf, cut and paste for files in Finder, and clipboard history.
- Your Claude Code and Codex agents: every session, the one that needs you first, and your limits.
- Vitals, network and keep awake for your Mac.
- A floating island on displays without a notch.
How it’s built
- Native, in Swift. No Electron and no web views.
- No telemetry and no tracking. To check your license it sends only your key and an anonymous Mac ID.
- One permission at setup, Accessibility. Everything else asks when you turn that feature on.
- Signed and notarized by Apple.
How you pay
Try it free for 7 days with no account and no card, then pay $9.99 once for your Mac, tax included, with every update for life. If the trial ends without a license, Hushtop keeps the notch, music and the volume HUD working. See pricing.
Compare for yourself
Every app here has its own strengths, and features change. Check each app’s own site for what it does today. The full Hushtop feature list shows everything that ships now.