Notch Radio turns your MacBook's notch into a live radio. Hover it and it morphs into a full player with album art, real track titles and transport controls. Move away and it folds back into the hardware.

Why the notch

Every radio app wanted a window. A window you minimise, then lose, then hunt for in Mission Control when the track changes. So we put the radio in the notch.

Collapsed, Notch Radio is a thin pill against the notch. Hover it and it opens into a peek card, then a full player. The geometry is resolved from the real screen on every display rather than hardcoded, so it fits the hardware instead of approximating it.

What makes it different

- The player is not a window. It lives in the notch, one hover away from whatever you are doing.

- It knows what is playing. Track titles are read live from the broadcast itself, with album art found for each song.

- No account, no server. No analytics, no ads, no tracking; nothing about what you listen to is ever sent to us.

- You pay once. No subscription, nothing renews.

Also in the box

- Thousands of stations from the Radio Browser community directory, searchable by name or genre

- Now Playing and your keyboard's media keys

- Full keyboard control in the player

- Launch at login, with your last station ready

- No notch? It draws one sized to your menu bar

Pricing

- Free, for ever: up to 5 stations. No account, no time limit.

- $19.99 once: unlimited stations, live track titles, per-song album art, stations added by stream URL, country filtering, and the placement options, including the menu bar instead of the notch.

- 14-day free trial of the paid features, inside the app.

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Built at Unicrow.