Looking for a NotchPop alternative?

NotchPop is a small notch app with a one-time price. If you’re looking around, here’s what Hushtop does, so you can compare for yourself.

Hushtop’s Home panel in the notch: now playing, next event, last copied link, AI limits, dev servers, system stats and a focus timer, with the dock below.

If you’re coming from NotchPop

Hushtop is also a one-time purchase, and it covers more of the day: synced lyrics, meetings with a Join button, AirPods battery per bud, a drop shelf with AirDrop, clipboard history, keep awake that lets the Mac sleep when a job is done, and your Claude Code and Codex agents. If your Mac has no notch, it draws a floating island instead.

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.

Also compared: NotchNook, Alcove, The Boring Notch, CrewTower.