Capture in the notch.
Plan on the desktop.
Hover the notch on your Mac, say or type what is on your mind, and it becomes a sorted task in about two seconds. When you need the full picture, the same tasks open in a calm, native desktop app. One-time purchase, no subscription.
3-day trial, every feature · No account, no credit card · macOS 15 or later
Hover the notch, then type your own task
Used daily by developers, designers and founders · One-time purchase · $0 per month, forever
Why lists do not stick
Capture is the whole game.
Most apps lose it at the first step.
The thought arrives mid-task.
You are in a call, a doc, a terminal. The to-do app is three clicks and one Cmd+Tab away. By the time you get there, either the thought is gone or the focus is.
Sorting is a second job.
Priority, project, date, estimate. Every field you have to fill by hand is a reason to skip it. So you skip it, and the list slowly stops meaning anything.
Out of sight, out of mind.
A list in a window you closed is a list you do not check. With ADHD it is sharper still: if it is not in front of you, it does not exist.
Notchable moves capture to the one place that is always on screen: the notch. The sorting is done for you. The timer sits where you cannot lose it.
How it works
Three steps.
Zero app-switching.
Hover the notch
The workspace opens over whatever you are doing. No dock icon, no window to find. Cmd+N puts the cursor in the composer.
Say it or type it
One task or a whole brain dump. "Reply to Jen, gym at 7 tomorrow, someday learn Spanish" becomes three tasks, not one.
It is sorted before you look
Date, priority, category and an estimate in about two seconds. Start a focus session and the notch keeps the timer with you.
The real thing, uncut.
The desktop app
The notch captures.
The desktop plans.
For the days when a glance is not enough, Notchable opens into a full, native macOS window. Same tasks, same data, no sync step. Free update, same one-time price.
Today
6Today
Overdue
Send invoice to Studio Kai
Today
Fix notch hover flicker on external display
Record demo video for landing page
Call dentist to reschedule
Pick up dry cleaning after work
Morning run
Today, Upcoming, Inbox
Today stays a short, honest list with overdue items on top. Upcoming is grouped by day. Inbox holds everything you have not triaged yet.
Projects, sub-tasks, recurring
Break big things into small wins, group them by project, and let the routine ones come back on their own.
Two-way Reminders sync
Check it off on your iPhone and it is done on your Mac. Rename it here and the reminder follows.
Triage with your hands
Drag a task onto Today, Upcoming or a project. Arrow keys move, Enter completes, Cmd+Z undoes. Double-click to rename.
Features
Built for people who
actually ship.
Every feature removes a step between having a thought and acting on it.
Voice capture that splits.
Say five things in one breath. Notchable turns them into five tasks, each with its own date, priority and estimate. Speech recognition runs on your Mac.
AI that reads dates like a person.
"Call mom at 9pm", "dentist next tuesday 9am", "pay rent by end of month" all land on the right day. No time words means no date; it never invents a schedule.
A focus timer that lives in the notch.
Start a session and the notch widens to show the ring and the countdown. It stays with you in every app and shrinks back when you stop.
Two-way Apple Reminders sync.
Tick it off on your iPhone or Watch and it completes on your Mac. Edit here and it updates there. One toggle, nothing else to set up.
A desktop app for planning.
Today, Upcoming, Inbox, projects, sub-tasks, recurring tasks, notes and a weekly review. Same data as the notch, no sync step.
Private by design. 25 languages.
Tasks live on your Mac, there is no account, and you choose on-device or cloud AI. The interface is translated into 25 languages.
Your data, your call
Pick where the AI runs.
Both editions store your tasks on your Mac and need no account. The only difference is where a capture gets read.
Cloud AI
Standard, $19.99 once
Grok 4.1 Fast through Notchable's server. The most accurate parser, about two seconds per capture, on any Mac.
- The text of a capture is sent, categorized and discarded. Notchable's server does not store it.
- Encrypted in transit. No account, no task history on our side.
- Falls back to a built-in rule parser when you are offline.
- Intel and Apple Silicon.
On-device AI
Lite, $9.99 once
A 1 GB model (Qwen3 1.7B) downloaded once and run on your Mac's GPU. Nothing you write leaves the machine.
- Works entirely offline after the first download.
- Unloads from memory after two minutes idle, so it never sits on your RAM.
- Same capture, same sorting; slightly less accurate on unusual phrasing.
- Apple Silicon, 16 GB memory recommended.
Speech recognition always runs on your Mac. Read the privacy policy.
Don't take our word for it.
Video Review
“I have a graveyard of task apps. Todoist, Things, TickTick, even a plain text file phase. Notchable is the first one I didn't abandon after two weeks. I just hover the notch, say what's on my mind, and I'm back to coding. Didn't realize how much time I was wasting Cmd+Tabbing around.”
Alex R.
Software Engineer
“My coworker watched me hover the notch and go 'wait what was that.' Now three people on my team use it. I look way more organized than I actually am.”
Maya K.
Product Designer
“Thought it was a gimmick honestly. Then I used it for a week and got annoyed every time I was on my iMac without it. That's when I knew.”
Jordan T.
Freelance Developer
“ADHD brain here. Every other task app requires too many steps and I'd just... not. This one I actually use because there's nothing to open. It's just there.”
Sam L.
Startup Founder
Pricing
One price. No subscription.
Todoist Pro is $48 a year. Three years of that is $144. Notchable is a one-time purchase with every update included.
Start here
Free for 3 days
Every feature unlocked. No credit card, no account. Download and try it on your real work.
Download free trialAfter 3 days it simply stops working. Nothing is deleted, and your tasks stay in Apple Reminders if sync is on.
When you are ready, pick the AI you want:
Lite
One-time. On-device AI.
- Unlimited tasks and projects
- Voice and keyboard capture
- Focus timer live in the notch
- Two-way Apple Reminders sync
- The desktop app
- Interface in 25 languages
- Every future update
- On-device AI (Qwen3 1.7B, about 1 GB download)
- Works fully offline after setup
- Nothing leaves your Mac
- Unloads from memory when idle
macOS 15 or later · Apple Silicon · 16 GB memory recommended
Standard
One-time. Cloud AI included.
- Unlimited tasks and projects
- Voice and keyboard capture
- Focus timer live in the notch
- Two-way Apple Reminders sync
- The desktop app
- Interface in 25 languages
- Every future update
- Cloud AI (Grok 4.1 Fast), the most accurate
- Works on Intel and Apple Silicon
- Built-in offline fallback
- Priority email support
macOS 15 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel
An honest comparison.
Todoist, Things and Reminders are good apps, and each one wins somewhere. What none of them do is capture from the notch, split a spoken brain dump, or keep a focus timer in view while you work.
| Feature | Notchable | Todoist | Things 3 | Reminders |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capture without leaving the app you are in | Partial | Partial | Partial | |
| Say several tasks at once and get them split | No | No | Partial | |
| AI sets the date, priority, category and estimate | Partial | No | Partial | |
| Focus timer visible while you work in any app | No | No | No | |
| Two-way Apple Reminders sync | No | Partial | ||
| Full desktop planning app | ||||
| iPhone, iPad, Windows and web appsTasks reach your iPhone and Watch through Reminders sync | Partial | Partial | Partial | |
| Shared lists and collaboration | No | No | ||
| Price | $19.99 once | $48 per year for Pro | $49.99 Mac, $9.99 iPhone, $19.99 iPad | Free with macOS |
Where they win: Todoist if you collaborate or work on Windows. Things if you want the most polished pure-Apple planner. Reminders if free is good enough. Read the full comparison
Questions, answered.
Yes. Download Notchable and use every feature for 3 days. No account, no credit card. When the trial ends the app stops working until you enter a license; nothing is deleted, and if Reminders sync is on your tasks are still in Apple Reminders.
One hover.
Every thought captured.
Try every feature free for 3 days. No credit card, no account. Download it, hover the notch, and say what is on your mind.
No credit card · No account · macOS 15 or later