Every version.

Hover the notch while music is playing.

It hangs a card down now instead of stretching the pill sideways: artwork and title, a scrubber you can drag, and transport with 15-second skips. A notch is a hole at the top of the display, so the room it has is underneath it. This release also fixes four things that were quietly broken — one of them a crash.

• Dragging a file from Cursor, Mail, Photos, Slack or a web page crashed the app. Those drags hand over an IOU rather than a file, and the code that caught the handover claimed a thread it was never called on. Plain Finder drags take a different path, which is why the Tray looked healthy
• Clicking the notch did nothing while media played — the click arrived and was dropped between two layers that disagreed about which one opens the drawer
• The now-playing pill often never appeared. Without Full Disk Access the app cannot read whether a Focus is on, so it guessed — and guessed “on” at every launch. A Focus suppresses media pills, so the notch stayed empty and nothing said why. It was also postponing every Notch Buddy reminder indefinitely
• Dragging the progress bar jumped to the start of the track — the seek was sent in the wrong unit, so 1:30 asked for 90 microseconds
• Four player layouts for the Desk widget — Stacked, Compact, Artwork and Minimal — in Settings → Now Playing, where the progress-bar style now does something too: Artwork and Gradient draw from the album’s own colour
• Select several files in the Tray — hit Select, or ⌘-click one — then copy, preview, remove or drag the whole selection out in one gesture
• Activities appear on every display rather than whichever screen the pointer happened to be on; pausing leaves the pill up for the inactivity timeout with a stopped waveform; closing the drawer brings the resting pill back
• Notch Buddy reminders no longer wait for the music to stop, and no longer fire the instant your Mac wakes from sleep
• ⌥-dragging the whole shelf out of the Tray clears the rows it moved, instead of leaving them pointing at files that are gone

iPhone Live Activities are withdrawn.

Reading a Live Activity meant holding a screen-capture stream on the menu bar, and macOS shows its screen-recording indicator for as long as one is open — so your Mac reported “OreoNotch — Currently Sharing”, with a Stop Sharing button, over a delivery tracker. That is not a fair trade for a feature that was off by default, so it is gone for now.

• The iPhone Activities pane no longer appears in Settings
• No capture stream is opened, so the recording indicator never shows
• Accessibility and Screen Recording are no longer used for anything in the app — you can revoke both if you granted them only for this
• Everything else from 0.4.0 stays: the Pomodoro clock, the reminders and the Notch Buddy

A focus clock in the Desk, and something living under the notch.

Two ways to keep time, and one small companion to carry the news. Everything here is off or opt-in until you go looking for it — the notch behaves exactly as it did until you turn something on.

• A Pomodoro clock in the Desk, beside the Timer — a ring, the minutes left, and a pip for each block in the set. Start, pause, skip and stop from the widget, or from the notch’s right-click menu when the drawer is shut. Block and break lengths are yours in Settings → Reminders
• It survives a sleeping Mac. The clock stores when a phase ends rather than counting down, so shutting the lid mid-block wakes up on the right side of the break instead of however far a timer happened to get
• Reminders for water, movement and your eyes — the 20-20-20 rule — plus one you write yourself. Each has its own wording, interval and a preview button, so you can see the thing before committing to it
• Nothing piles up while you’re away. Locked, idle or in a Focus, the clock resets rather than saving a backlog: lunch doesn’t cost you six reminders in a row when you sit back down, and none of them fire the instant you do
• No notifications, no permission to grant. A reminder is drawn on your own screen by the app that’s already there

And a Notch Buddy, if you want one. A small character hanging off the notch — a spider on a thread, a cat holding the edge, an astronaut on a tether, or any emoji you like. Off by default, in Settings → Notch Buddy.

• It knows what the Mac is doing. Bobs while music plays, holds a mug while keep-awake is on, sleeps through a Focus, droops on a low battery
• It never takes a click. The buddy’s window is transparent to the mouse, so whatever is underneath stays yours
• Reminders work without it. With the buddy off it comes down only to deliver one, then leaves again
• A long to-do is readable again. Click a task to open it in place: the text wraps to its full length and can be edited there
• Escape leaves the field, not the drawer. Pressing it while typing in the Desk used to close the whole thing and take what you’d written with it

Your iPhone’s Live Activities, in the notch.

A delivery on its way, a timer counting down, a flight boarding — when something is happening on your phone, macOS tucks it into the corner of your menu bar. Oreo now shows it in the notch instead, and clicking it opens the full card.

• Off until you switch it on, in Settings → iPhone Activities. That is deliberate: macOS gives apps no way to read what a Live Activity says — only which app it belongs to — so Oreo reads the pixels of the one already in your menu bar. That needs a capture stream, and macOS shows its screen-recording indicator for as long as one is open. Oreo opens it only while an activity is on screen, and closes it the moment the activity ends
• Click through to the real card. That view is drawn by macOS, not by Oreo — the pill opens it rather than imitating it
• Needs Accessibility and Screen Recording, and a relaunch after you grant them. Without Screen Recording you still get the app’s name, just not its countdown
• Needs macOS 26 or later, and your iPhone nearby and signed into the same Apple Account — this is the activity macOS is already mirroring, not a second copy
• Not in the App Store version. Reading the menu bar needs Accessibility, and a sandboxed app can never be granted it

Files dragged out of the Tray arrive whole. Dragging a single file from the Tray into WhatsApp attached it as a 0 KB document. Oreo was handing the receiving app two things at once — the file, and a promise of the file — and WhatsApp took the promise, which asks Oreo to write into WhatsApp’s own private folder, somewhere it is not allowed to write. The write was refused and you got the empty placeholder. Oreo now hands over the file and nothing else.

• Dragging several files at once was never affected — that path already sent the files themselves
• Apple Weather’s mark now draws properly under the forecast instead of losing its logo to a blank space

Drop a PDF on the notch, get a Word file.

Hold a document over the notch and a new lane appears, already pointing the right way — To Word for a PDF, To PDF for a Word file. Drop it and the converted file lands in the Tray, ready to drag straight into Slack or an email.

• PDF becomes Word, RTF or plain text. Fonts, sizes and weights come across, so it opens as a document you can edit rather than a wall of text
• Word, RTF, ODT, HTML and text become PDF — on the paper size the document was actually written for, so an A4 letter stays A4
• Pick what each one turns into in Settings → Drop actions
• A scanned PDF says so instead of handing you an empty document — there is no text in a photograph of a page
• Dragging from anywhere works now. A file out of Slack, Mail or Photos, or an image straight off a web page, used to leave the notch stuck on “Drop to add”. Those apps hand over a promise of a file rather than the file; Oreo takes both now, and names a web image after the page it came from
• Already bought? The licence card has a restore button that finds your key in iCloud, so a second Mac needs no email archaeology

Pictures and tables don't survive a conversion. Text and formatting do. Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later on Apple Silicon.

Your licence key pastes now.

⌘V did nothing — not in the licence box, not anywhere else in the app. If you bought Oreo and tried to paste the key from your email, the only way through was typing all thirty-odd characters by hand. Fixed.

• Paste, copy, cut and select-all work everywhere — the licence box, the to-do line, every field
• Your key goes straight into the notch. Open the Desk, paste, done — no trip to Settings, and a Paste button next to the field if you would rather click
• The Desk and the Tray need a licence now, the way activities always have. Nothing you have set up changes, and it all comes back the moment your key lands
• A fresh install opens with Music, To-dos and Weather. If you have already chosen your own widgets, they stay exactly as you left them

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later on Apple Silicon.

Your other Macs unlock themselves again.

If you bought through the UPI checkout, your second Mac was quietly failing to pick up the licence from your Apple account, so you had to type the key again. Fixed.

• One licence still covers every Mac you own — sign in with the same Apple account and the rest unlock on their own
• The activation limit is gone from your receipt. It was never a cap on how many Macs you could use, but it read like one
• Nothing to redo if you already typed your key in

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later on Apple Silicon.

Housekeeping found during a full pass over the app.

Nothing here changes what OreoNotch does. It removes things that were never meant to reach you.

• The Debug menu is gone. Developer tooling — test activities, a burst test, a geometry dump — was sitting at the top of the menu in every shipped build
• Two developer switches that could wipe or seed your synced to-dos and notes no longer exist outside development builds
• Buy in the app now goes to the same checkout the site uses, so it picks UPI or card by where you are instead of dropping you on the price list

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later on Apple Silicon.

OreoNotch now needs a licence from the start.

The seven-day trial is gone. A licence is required before OreoNotch starts showing activities — there is no countdown, and nothing to lose track of.

• No trial clock, so nothing expires and nothing is taken away a week after you have got used to it
• The working notch on the front page is the try-before-you-buy: it is the real thing in every state, not a screenshot
• Thirty days to change your mind, no reason required — the refund is the safety net now, and it is meant to be used
• Nothing changes if you already have a licence

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later on Apple Silicon.

You can pay by UPI now.

Buying OreoNotch went through Gumroad, which takes cards and not UPI — so for a lot of people in India there was no straightforward way to pay at all. There is now: the price section has a UPI option alongside the card one, handled by Dodo Payments.

• UPI, cards and net banking through Dodo Payments, or cards through Gumroad as before
• The licence is the same either way — same price, same key box, same one licence for every Mac you own
• OreoNotch works out which store issued your key from the key itself, so there is nothing to pick when you activate

Nothing changes if you have already bought. Your existing key keeps working and this update does not ask you for it again.

iCloud moved to where it should have been.

Every build before this one talked to Apple's development iCloud database — a place meant for testing, not for anybody's real data. Nothing was lost and nothing leaked; it was simply the wrong drawer, and one an errant click in a developer console can empty.

• Sync and licences now use the production database, which is where they belong
• If you ran an earlier build, your synced to-dos and notes start fresh — the old ones were in that development database. What's on this Mac stays on this Mac
• Licence activation is now genuinely bound to your Apple account, so a shared key won't work for anyone else

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later on Apple Silicon.

Now called OreoNotch, and your licence follows you.

The app is named OreoNotch on both the App Store and here. Your settings, to-dos and licence are untouched — it is the same app with the same identity underneath, not a new one.

• Your licence unlocks your other Macs by itself. Activate once; any Mac on the same Apple account picks it up from your own iCloud, with nothing to type
• A licence key now belongs to the person who bought it. A shared key won't activate for anyone else
• The app said "up to five Macs" — it never enforced that, and the licence has always covered every Mac you own. Now it says so
• The licence field showed the wrong key format

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later on Apple Silicon.

You can buy it now.

The store is live, and licence activation works end to end. 0.1.1 shipped with no payment provider attached, so entering a key answered "licensing isn't configured in this build".

• Licence activation works — enter your key in Settings → License
• Refunded and charged-back purchases stop working, as they should
• "Buy Oreo" in the app now reaches the price page rather than a parked domain

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later on Apple Silicon.

The icon, and a licence you can actually activate.

Housekeeping, all of it visible. 0.1.0 shipped without an app icon — the build predated the artwork by an hour and nothing in the pipeline noticed, so macOS showed the generic placeholder.

• The app icon is there. 0.1.0 had none at all
• Licence activation works. It was built with no API attached, so entering a key answered "licensing isn't configured in this build"
• The installer window is laid out properly instead of opening as a large empty box
• "Buy Oreo" and "Lost your key?" pointed at a parked domain. They now reach this site

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later on Apple Silicon.

The first one.

Everything below is in this build. It's a first release, so it is also the version most likely to have something wrong with it — the support page has a diagnostics report that tells us what happened without telling us what you were doing.

• Live activities for sound, display, keyboard backlight, now playing, battery, Bluetooth connections, Focus, calendar, the file tray, timers, downloads, screenshots, weather, and idle/lock
• The Desk with eleven widgets — media, calendar, to-dos, timer, notes, shortcuts, mirror, Quick Apps, weather, clipboard and sound output
• The Tray, a file shelf at the top of every screen, with drop lanes for AirDrop, compress, convert, strip EXIF, PDF, zip and unzip
• iCloud sync for to-dos and notes across your Macs
• Clipboard history that skips concealed clips by flag
• System volume and brightness HUDs suppressed and replaced
• Signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later on Apple Silicon.