NotchBay press kit: facts, logo and contact
NotchBay is a $19 one-time macOS app (list price $39, 3-day free trial, no card required) that turns the MacBook notch into a Dynamic Island-style hub; it requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later, and the current version is 0.2.34, released 5 September 2026. It is made by Deepak Yadav at Ossian Design Lab; press contact deepak@ossiandesignlab.com.
Boilerplate
One paragraph you can quote as is:
NotchBay is a macOS app, written in Swift with AppKit and SwiftUI, that turns the MacBook notch into a Dynamic Island-style hub: live activities for music, calendar, AirPods and Bluetooth battery, Zoom and Google Meet call controls, a 60-clip clipboard tray with OCR, drop-to-share, on-device dictation and a Claude Code companion. It is a $19 one-time purchase with a 3-day free trial, requires macOS 26 or later, and is made by Deepak Yadav at Ossian Design Lab.
Fact sheet
- Name
- NotchBay, one word. Also searched as "Dynamic Island for Mac".
- What it is
- A Dynamic Island-style hub for the MacBook notch.
- Price
- $19 one-time. List price $39. No subscription, ever.
- Trial
- 3-day free trial, no card required.
- Requirements
- macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later. Designed for a MacBook with a notch (14/16-inch MacBook Pro from 2021, MacBook Air from the M2 generation). On a Mac without a notch, or on an external display, the island runs as a small floating pill at the top edge of the screen.
- Version
- 0.2.34, released 5 September 2026. Live source: /version.json. Every release is on the changelog.
- Developer
- Deepak Yadav, Ossian Design Lab.
- Signing
- Signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple.
- Distribution
- Direct download from notchbay.com/download. Not on the Mac App Store. Not open source.
- Editions
- A free tier and a $19 one-time Pro license. Updates are automatic and signature-verified.
- Website
- notchbay.com
- Contact
- deepak@ossiandesignlab.com, X @thedeepflux
What it does
- Live activities in the notch: now playing with waveform and media controls, the next calendar event with one-click join, AirPods and Bluetooth device battery on connect (with model-accurate device art), the volume and brightness HUD in the notch instead of Apple's overlay, a focus timer, and weather for a chosen city.
- Zoom and Google Meet call controls: mute, camera and leave from the notch. Meet works through Chrome, Brave and other Chromium browsers.
- Clipboard tray: the last 60 clips, auto-sorted by type (text, links, colors, images, files). Screenshots and screen recordings land in it automatically, screenshots are OCR'd so the text inside them is searchable, and pinned clips never expire.
- Share from the notch: drop a file on the notch to upload it to your own Google Drive and copy a share link, send it by AirDrop, or show a QR code.
- Message notifications mirrored into the notch with quick reply (Messages and the apps macOS shows banners for).
- On-device dictation and transcription via Apple's SpeechAnalyzer, the macOS 26 speech API. Transcripts can be copied or inserted at the cursor.
- Claude Code companion: the running agent's status, the 5-hour and weekly usage limits read from the local Claude Code logs, and approve or deny for Claude Code permission prompts, all from the notch.
- Per-app skins: the island changes with the frontmost app (browser tabs and bookmarks, meeting apps, code agents, and more).
- Status: camera, microphone and screen-recording in-use indicators; Caps Lock, Focus (Do Not Disturb), browser download and lock-screen status chips.
- Themes: a light and a dark island theme; the graphite (black) island is the default.
Limits worth knowing
- Requires macOS 26 and is designed for a notched MacBook; on a Mac without a notch the island floats and does not fake a notch.
- Google Meet control works through a Chromium browser bridge (Chrome, Brave, Comet). Safari is not supported yet.
- Call controls need the Accessibility permission. Message mirroring and Focus status need Full Disk Access.
- The tray holds 60 clips plus pinned ones. It is not an unlimited archive.
- Not on the Mac App Store; not open source.
Logo and images
The NotchBay logo: the notch over lava. Use it unaltered on a dark or light background, with clear space around it.
- notchbay-logo.png, the NotchBay logo, 512 x 512 PNG.
- og.png, the social preview image, 1200 x 630 PNG.
- avatar.webp, Deepak Yadav, 368 x 368 WebP.
How to describe it fairly
Other Dynamic Island apps for the Mac predate NotchBay: NotchNook, Alcove, DynamicLake, boring.notch, TopNotch and Atoll. Please do not call NotchBay the first, the only or the best Dynamic Island app for Mac. There are no user counts, download numbers, awards or press reviews to cite. Our own comparisons are on the blog: NotchBay vs NotchNook, NotchBay vs boring.notch, and the Dynamic Island for Mac guide; the notch apps directory lists every app in the category.
Contact
- Email: deepak@ossiandesignlab.com
- X: @thedeepflux
- Developer page: /about/
- Privacy: what the app and this site collect
- Machine-readable summary: /llms.txt
- More: the homepage and the blog