WinNotch 0.5.0 · For Windows 10 & 11
A small black island at the top of your screen. It shows what's happening right now, and opens into a whole workspace when you hover. Move away and it tucks itself back in.
Live activities
Charging, headphones connecting, a muted mic, a finished download, the end of a focus session, a low battery. Each plays inside the same 204 × 38 shell, then gets out of your way.
Coding agents
Connect Claude Code or Codex once from Settings. When a run finishes or stops to ask something, the notch tells you. Click it to jump straight back to the terminal it came from.
Already looking at the agent? WinNotch stays quiet.
Now Playing
Artwork and a live wave sit beside the clock while Spotify plays. The wave takes its colours from the album cover, so every record looks a little different.
Press a volume key and the notch shows a dotted level instead of the Windows pop-up. Drag the segments to set it exactly.
Notch modes
Like a laptop's performance modes. Alt M slides the notch from Time to Stats to Large sport. Over a fullscreen game it keeps a mode of its own, and can stay out of the way entirely.
Sports
Follow your teams and their live scores sit in the notch: football, basketball, cricket and every other sport ESPN covers. When your side scores, the notch celebrates.
A burst in the dotted face, then the scorer, the assist and the minute, once. Football can even show referee cards.
Click a game for its timeline, line-ups on a pitch and the match stats, without leaving the notch.
Search
Find tasks, past notes, saved text and macros. Do quick maths, convert units, or start with + to capture a task without opening anything else. It all works offline.
Screen text
Press Alt Shift T and drag over anything on screen: a video, a screenshot, a locked PDF. Check the text, then copy it or add it to today's note. Recognition runs on your PC with Windows OCR.
The workspace
Tasks, focus and notes. Your music, a shelf for files, live system graphs, launchers and a proper calculator. All one hover away, all the same size, no windows to manage.
Privacy
No WinNotch account. Tasks, notes and settings sit in one file in your Windows profile, with backup and restore in Settings.
It only goes online for these:
One price
No subscription. Every feature on this page, yours to keep, on up to three of your PCs.
Checkout isn't open yet, so no payment is taken here.
Questions
No. WinNotch draws its own island at the top of your primary display. It runs on Windows 10 version 2004 or newer and Windows 11, on x64 PCs.
At rest it's 204 × 38 pixels, flush with the top edge. You can drag it anywhere along the top, size it from 90% to 110%, hold a click-through key to reach what's underneath, or let it hide for fullscreen video. It never appears in the taskbar or Alt+Tab.
Games keep a notch mode of their own. Press Alt M over a game to go from Hidden to Stats, Large sport and Time. Hidden keeps the notch out of the game completely.
Settings adds a small hook to Claude Code and a notify command to Codex. When a run finishes or asks a question, the notch shows it. Clicking the notice brings back the window the agent is running in.
Tasks, notes, focus, search, the calculator and the shelf all work offline. Sports scores and currency refreshes need a connection.
Now Playing connects to the Spotify desktop app, both the standalone and Microsoft Store versions, through Windows media controls.
Some depend on your PC. Brightness works on supported internal displays. Bluetooth battery, GPU usage and temperatures depend on your devices and drivers; WinNotch shows "unavailable" rather than guessing.
The price is $5 USD, once. Checkout isn't open yet, so this site doesn't take payments. The licence and refund terms are on Terms & refunds.
Up to three of your own. Each PC uses its own licence key: the key in your receipt email is for the first, and you make a key for each of the others on your licence page, where you sign in with the same Google account you bought with. You can free a PC there and use its key on another one.
Email support within 14 days of buying. I'll help get it working, and if it can't run on 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, you get a full refund. Your purchase also includes every update to the major version you bought. The details are on Terms & refunds.