01 Free macOS app
Your notch, now a dashboard.
Ledge turns the MacBook notch into an interactive hub. Hover and it expands into live modules — what's playing, your calendar, the weather, a file shelf, clipboard history, timers. Move away and it melts back into the notch.
Requirements
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · Universal & notch-less Macs
Homebrew
First launch
Ledge isn't notarized yet, so macOS may flag it. In Applications, right-click Ledge → Open → Open. You only do this once. Downloading needs a free account — just your email — which also gets you the licence key Ledge asks for.
02 Demo
Hover the notch.
The same interaction as the app — the notch drops open like a shade, then collapses when you leave.
Midnight City
M83
Sat, Jul 18
Next · 9:00 Standup
72°
San Francisco
H:78 L:61 · Partly cloudy
Hover the notch to expand ↑
03 Behaviors
Alive in the notch.
The notch reacts to what you're doing — not just a launcher, a living surface.
Hover to expand
Move the cursor to the notch and the dashboard drops down like a shade. Leave and it collapses.
Volume & brightness HUD
Changing volume or brightness flashes a bar right in the notch, not a floating box mid-screen.
Drag to stash
Drag a file toward the notch and it opens as a drop target for the Shelf.
Live activity
While music plays the collapsed bar widens to show album art and an equalizer beside the notch.
04 Modules
One notch, twenty-plus modules.
Turn on what you want, drag to reorder, pick an accent color and size.
Now Playing
Scrubber, spectrum, and play/skip for Spotify or Music
Calendar
Today’s events with one-click Join for Zoom/Meet/Teams
Weather
Current conditions plus hourly and 6-day forecast
File Shelf
Stash files, then drag out, AirDrop, Zip, or reveal
Clipboard
Recent copies — text, links, colors, images — pin favorites
System
Live CPU, memory, battery, and top process
Timers
Pomodoro, stopwatch, and quick countdowns
And more
Network, Storage, World Clock, Notes, Bluetooth, Camera…
05 Install
Up and running in a minute.
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Download & open
Sign in with your email to get the DMG and your free key, then drag Ledge into your Applications folder. First time only: right-click Ledge → Open to clear macOS’s unidentified-developer check.
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Launch it
Ledge lives in the menu bar — no Dock icon. It settles into the notch (or a small pill on notch-less Macs).
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Grant a few permissions
A one-time welcome asks for Calendar, Reminders, media control, Location, and Camera — grant only what you want.
Free & open source · Source on GitHub