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Drop Notch for macOS
Version 2.0.28 · macOS 14 or later
Download for Apple Silicon Intel Mac? Get the Intel build
  1. Open the .dmg and drag Drop Notch into Applications.
  2. First launch: macOS stops it once, because it is not from the App Store. Click Done, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and press Open Anyway. The walks through it.
  3. Press ⌥ Space and sign in with this same account.

Not sure which Mac you have? Apple menu → About This Mac. “Chip: Apple M…” is Apple Silicon; “Processor: Intel” is Intel.

At a glance

A device is a Mac running Drop Notch. Signing in here does not use one.

Drop Notch
$14.99, once. Up to three Macs, and every update after it.
Nothing to pay
Nothing on this account yet.

Payments go through Polar, which emails your receipt. Refunds come back to the card you paid with.

Installing
  1. Open the disk image from your Downloads and drag Drop Notch into Applications. It has to live there to update itself.
  2. Open it once, and let macOS refuse it. The app is not notarised yet, so the first launch says Apple could not verify it. Click Done.
  3. Allow it. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to “Drop Notch was blocked”, press Open Anyway and confirm. On macOS 14 you can instead right-click the app and choose Open. This happens once.
  4. Press ⌥Space and start typing.
If macOS says it is damaged
It is not. Run this once in Terminal, then open it again.
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Drop Notch.app"
Signing in on a Mac
Open Settings from the menu bar icon, and sign in under Account. Your licence follows the account, so there is no key to type. That Mac then holds one device seat, which you can free from the Devices page.