Macadoodle is the notch app for Mac. It turns your MacBook’s notch into a home for your files, clipboard, music and calendar. Move the pointer up, and it opens.
Your keys stay in your Keychain.
Read for one request, then dropped.
Your voice becomes text on your Mac.
Apple Speech or Whisper. A cloud service only if you pick one.
Straight from your Mac to the model you picked.
Nothing passes through us.
Nothing is stored with us. And the code is GPL-3.0.
Only feedback you choose to send reaches us.
Five moments from one Tuesday. Take it slowly. Each one waits for you to try it.
Tuesday, early. Claude is running your tests.
See Claude Code and Codex work. Answer their questions and send instructions without leaving what you are doing. Watch tokens, cost and plan limits.
Late morning. A client call, with your screen shared.
A live transcript and answers to the questions you hear. Turn on Stealth and the app stays out of screen sharing.
After lunch. A poster has the details you need.
Copy text or a QR code from anything on screen. Copied links lose their tracking junk, and text can paste without formatting.
Mid-afternoon. A long export, and other work to do.
Turn any part of any window into a live activity, with an alert when it changes. Downloads, notifications and low accessory batteries show up too.
Evening. Your hand is already on the trackpad.
Hold three fingers on the trackpad, then draw a shape to run an action. Or knock on your MacBook, or open a wheel of actions around the pointer.
Make it yours
Every key can play a sound. The notch can wear a theme, keep your pages and hold your shortcuts. Try it all here, with sound on.
Themes
Behind the open notch and in Settings. Cards and controls sit on clear glass above it.
Pages and favorites
Group sections into tabs. Pin up to four favorites beside the page bar.
Pinned Actions
Up to three actions in the closed notch while it rests. A live activity takes their place.
Hide the notch Beta
The screen moves below the camera. The notch disappears into a black edge and the menu bar shows fully.
105 features in one app. Pick a group to see what it does.
Everything that moves, in one place.
When the display wakes on the Lock Screen, the camera looks for your face and the Mac unlocks.
Each agent raises a creature that grows from its API-value spend.
Music, timers, agents, downloads and your next event appear above the password field.
Show connected accessories and warn once when their battery falls to 20%.
Move the notch bars with the sound your player makes.
Browse the month and your upcoming appointments in the notch.
Agents, usage, and an assistant.
Follow plan limits, tokens, API value and live work of Claude, Codex, OpenCode and GitHub Copilot.
Tokens, cost at API list prices and plan limits for each coding agent, read from local logs.
Answer permission questions and send instructions to running Claude Code sessions from the notch.
A chat assistant in the notch that uses your own Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Kimi or local model keys.
Google's completions under the command bar's own results.
Look good. Sound sharp. Stay private.
Transcribes the call live and suggests what to say, automatically or when you press a hotkey.
Hides every Macadoodle window from screen sharing, recordings and screenshots.
Turn audio and video files into text with timestamps, recognized on your Mac.
Opens a floating mirror with your camera.
Read a script just below the camera that follows your voice or scrolls at a set speed.
Speak it, note it, send it.
Plain text notes with tags, pins and reminders that fire even with every window closed.
Speak to type into the app you are using, or search your clipboard, notes and agent sessions.
Speak a note in the notch and it becomes text, with the recording kept if you want.
Floating pads for short-lived notes.
Short triggers expand into full text.
Move stuff without opening anything.
Convert, resize, compress, crop and merge images, PDFs and audio on your Mac.
Copied links lose their tracking junk.
Keep a local, searchable history of what you copy, with pinned favorites.
Pick any color on screen.
Copy text or QR codes from anything on screen.
Cut and paste files in Finder.
Your windows, in order.
Windows arrange themselves as they open and close, in columns or a grid, on every display.
Click a Dock icon to minimize or cycle windows.
Window previews when hovering the Dock.
Focuses the window under the pointer.
Stops macOS from rearranging Spaces by most recent use, so they stay in the order you set.
The green button maximizes instead of full screen.
Every input, tuned.
Hold three fingers on the trackpad, then draw a shape to run an action.
Change what a key or combination does, in every app or some, with a safe mode that turns it off.
Plays a short sound for each key you type.
Knock on your MacBook once, twice or three times to run an action.
Slide one finger along the trackpad's edges to change volume and brightness.
Ignore accidental double key presses.
Know it. Tune it. Clean it.
Find and install updates for the apps you have.
Automatically use your preferred audio devices.
Switches Bluetooth off while the Mac sleeps, so headphones in a bag stop connecting to it.
Clear caches and junk files.
Lock keyboard and screen for cleaning.
Count connected external USB peripherals.
Pages, themes, workflows.
Moves the screen below the camera, so the notch disappears into a black edge and the menu bar shows fully.
Group the notch's sections into tabs, pin favorites and customize it from inside the notch.
Setup starts at the real notch: hover, drop a file and pick what you use.
Every missing permission says, step by step, where to go in System Settings and what to turn on.
Your settings are backed up automatically, and a reset keeps your notes and clipboard unless you ask.
Pick a backdrop for the open notch and Settings, from plain glass to aurora and silk.
You choose which features to turn on. Each one asks only for the permission it needs. Switch a few on and watch the list.
Nothing yet. Turn on a feature.
Hover the notch to look inside.
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Download Macadoodle, open the DMG, and drag the app to Applications.
Questions
Short answers about what Macadoodle is, what it needs and how to get it.
Macadoodle is a notch-first productivity app for the Mac. It turns the notch at the top of your MacBook into a home for files, clipboard, music, calendar, AI agents and more. Move the pointer up and it opens.
Macadoodle needs macOS 14 or later on an Apple silicon Mac. It is built around the MacBook notch.
Slide to pre-register in the Get Macadoodle section, then leave your name, email and what you do. We email you when Macadoodle is ready.
Only the ones the features you turn on need, such as Calendar, Accessibility, Screen Recording, Microphone, Speech Recognition, App audio and Camera. Each feature asks for its own permission.
Macadoodle is released under the GPL-3.0 license and is built on open source projects, which are credited on this page.
No. Macadoodle is an unofficial fork of Vorssaint and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Vorssaint project. It is not affiliated with Apple.
Credits
Macadoodle stands on work other people shared. Thank you. Each project keeps its own license, and every adapted file names its source.