Itchy

Selcuk Sarikoz looked at the MacBook notch—everyone's favorite punchline since 2021—and said "what if that thing was actually useful?" So he built Itchy, a free macOS notch app that turns that controversial little cutout into a productivity hub you didn't know you needed.

Twelve built-in modules come packed in: Pomodoro timer, Now Playing with album art, Calendar, Mail, Live Activities, clipboard history, storage, notes, Bluetooth battery monitoring, quick toggles, weather, and even a prompter for presentations. Want your clipboard history living in your notch? Done. Need a Pomodoro timer staring at you while you work? Itchy's got you. Privacy-focused, stays hidden during screen sharing by default because nobody wants their productivity tools photobombing a client call—but you can toggle it visible whenever.

But here's the real flex: there's a custom SDK. Developers can write Swift modules, compile a .bundle, and ship their own Nook plugins. It's an open platform play on hardware that Apple literally never knew what to do with. The notch went from joke to platform in one move. Welcome to the notch economy—turns out those wasted pixels were just waiting for someone to care.