Macbrow
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Drop it on the notch. Grab it later.

Macbrow turns the notch into a shelf for files, a cleaner for your screenshots, a meeting alert, a music player and a calendar. Try the Shelf right here.

Try everything free for 14 days

No card, no account. macOS 15 or later.

Nothing on the Shelf yet.

Drag a file up to the notch. Or click it.

Hover the notch. It knows what you need next.

Real screens from Macbrow. The notch stays closed until you hover, drag, or a meeting is about to start.

Macbrow’s Shelf tab holding 8 items: three screenshots, two with an expiry badge (20 h and 3 h), a banner image, an invoice PDF, a folder named Brand assets and a text snippet.

The Shelf: park anything on the notch

Shelf Free
Files, folders, links, text and images. They survive restarts; drag them out, share or AirDrop them.
Screenshots that expire Pro
New screenshots wait on the Shelf with a countdown and go to the Trash if you never use them. Keep them 24 h, 3 days or 7 days.

Music, calendar and meetings

What hovering shows, and what the closed notch tells you.

Macbrow open under the notch: a song playing with progress, playback and volume controls, and the November calendar with the Weekly sync happening now and a Stand-up next.

Now Playing and today Music free Calendar Pro

Artwork, controls, volume and an output picker for speakers, AirPods, displays and AirPlay. Today’s calendar with a week strip.

The closed notch stretched into a meeting reminder: a dot in the calendar’s colour on the left and ‘in 1 min’ on the right.

A heads-up before every meeting Pro

The closed notch expands with the time left, 1 to 15 minutes ahead. Click to join Google Meet, Zoom, Teams or Webex.

Pro tools

A third tab of your choice, an on-device assistant and a drawer of integrations.

Macbrow’s Clipboard tab: four recent copies as cards (a code snippet, one file, a link to example.com and meeting notes), each with how long ago it was copied, plus pause and trash buttons.

Your last 50 copies Pro

Clipboard history, each copy with how long ago. Password managers are ignored.

Macbrow’s Focus tab: a ring with a 15:37 timer, a Timer and Pomodoro switch, and Pause and Reset buttons.

Focus timer or Pomodoro Pro

Counting down in the notch. Or make the third tab a Mirror to check your camera before a call.

Macbrow’s Assistant answering ‘What does my day look like?’ after checking the calendar: the Weekly sync under way, Stand-up at 12:30 and lunch at 14:00.

Ask about your day Pro

On-device with Apple Intelligence, macOS 26 or later. Nothing happens until you confirm it on a card.

Macbrow’s drawer open on Weather: 4 degrees and partly cloudy in Oslo, the next twelve hours and the next five days, data from MET Norway.

Pull down the drawer Pro

Reminders, Shortcuts, Weather, Checkmate, Dilo and LimitBar. Weather data comes from MET Norway.

The closed notch with a small blue pixel cat walking on its left side.

Also in Pro: a pixel pet that walks the closed notch and reacts to your day. Pro

Keep the Shelf for free. Unlock the rest once.

Pick a moment to see what you get.

Show what you get

Every download starts with all of it. No card, no account.From day 15, these stay free for good, and nothing you parked is deleted.Everything, for one payment of €7.99. Up to 3 Macs, no subscription.

  • ShelfFiles, folders, links, text and images that survive restarts.
    Free
  • MusicNow Playing, volume and output picker.
    Free
  • Clock, battery and basic appearance
    Free
  • Screenshots that expire
    Pro
  • Calendar and meeting reminders
    Pro
  • Clipboard history, Focus and Mirror
    Pro
  • AssistantOn-device, macOS 26 or later.
    Pro
  • The drawer, six integrations
    Pro
  • Pixel pet
    Pro

Small, quiet, and yours.

Questions

Is Macbrow free?

Yes. You get 14 days of everything, with no card and no account. After that the Shelf, music, battery, clock and basic appearance stay free, and nothing is deleted. Pro is €7.99, paid once.

Does my Mac need a notch?

Macbrow is made for MacBooks with a notch. On other displays it shows as a small pill in the menu bar.

Which macOS do I need?

macOS 15 or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel. The Assistant needs macOS 26 or later with Apple Intelligence.

How many Macs can use one license?

Up to 3. Changing Macs? Deactivate the license in Settings › License and activate it on the new one.

Where is the menu-bar icon?

There isn’t one. Hover over the notch to open Macbrow; settings and quit are inside it. Reopen the app to get to Settings.

Which calendars does it read?

The accounts in macOS Calendar, so Google, iCloud and Exchange work if you added them there. Calendar access is requested only when you click Connect Calendar.

Does anything leave my Mac?

No. The one exception is Weather, if you use it: it asks MET Norway for a forecast. Update checks send no information about your Mac.

Park it in the notch. Find it there tomorrow.

Free for 14 days, then free for good or €7.99 once.

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