Pin one thing
Pin the match you care about beside the notch. When a wicket falls, it takes the whole row for a moment — then gets out of the way.
macOS · native · v0.1 beta
The notch,
put to work.
Live scores and market prices, running quietly through the top row of your MacBook — behind the notch, out of your way.
Download the beta for Mac
Apple-verified build · coming soon One extra step the first time you open it →
Sample scores and prices.
01 — How it works
At rest in the top row.
Under your pointer, it opens.
Rests behind the notch
A thin black band either side of the notch, matching the hardware. Text slides through it and passes behind the camera. Full width in full-screen apps.
Steps aside for your menus
Move the pointer up and the band folds into the notch and drops into a strip below it, uncovering every menu title and status icon underneath.
Opens into a panel
Rest on the strip and it opens: everything you follow, with batters and bowler, gaps and freshness. Click any line for the full story. Right-click to pin.
Install
One extra step, once.
The beta isn't verified by Apple yet, so macOS asks you to approve it the first time. After that it opens like any other app. The Apple-verified version is coming soon.
- 1
Move it to Applications
Open FanNotch.dmg and drag Fan Notch onto the Applications folder.
- 2
Open it once
macOS says it can't verify the developer. Click Done. Nothing has gone wrong.
- 3
Approve it
Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the line about Fan Notch, click Open Anyway and confirm with your password or Touch ID.
- 4
That's it
It opens out of your notch with a short welcome: what to show, which sports, how it should look. It asks for no other permissions — no screen recording, no accessibility, nothing. Right-click the strip under the notch for Settings and Quit.
02 — Built for people who notice
Small, quiet, exact.
Sports and markets
Cricket, F1 and Indian indices and shares. One thread, or sports on the left and prices on the right. Your choice.
Still, if you like
Scroll, page through, or hold one item perfectly still. Speed from a slow drift to zero.
Never blank
Offline? It keeps the last scores, dimmed, and refreshes the moment you're back. It never shows a spinner in your notch.
No permissions
No screen recording, no accessibility, no location. Outgoing network only. Your keys live in your Keychain.
Truly native
Swift and Core Animation. The window server does the scrolling, so your battery barely notices.
03 — Pro
Free to keep.
Pro for everything.
The free plan follows one sport, with your markets, in Scroll mode. Pro follows every sport at once and opens up the rest. One key covers three Macs.
Thanks for buying Pro. Your licence key is on its way by email: paste it into Fan Notch → Settings → General.
Monthly
$1.99a month
On sale soonYearly save 37%
$14.99a year
On sale soon- Every sport at once
- Refresh every 15 seconds or every minute
- Page and Pinned modes, and the split row
- Pulses, and big moments taking over the row
- Notifications
Pro goes on sale with the Apple-verified build. Until then the beta has everything included.
04 — Specs
Measured, not promised.
- CPU, scrolling
- < 1%0.3% measured at a 5-minute refresh
- CPU, still
- < 0.3%0.1% measured
- Memory
- ~25 MBapp footprint
- Launch to scores
- < 0.5 slast session's ticker from disk
- Refresh
- 15 s – manual5 minutes by default; slower for fixtures and tables
- While asleep or locked
- 0 timersno fetching, no animation
- Requires
- macOS 14+MacBook with a notch; draws one on other screens
- Built with
- Swift 6AppKit, Core Animation, SwiftUI for settings
05 — Where the data comes from
Documented sources only.
No scraping. Every provider is used through its published API, within its limits, with its credit shown.
- Indian pricesUpstox, through your own free read-only token. Nothing can place an order.
- Formula 1 sessions & resultsOpenF1 — an unofficial, community project. Live timing with your own OpenF1 account.
- F1 standings & calendarJolpica-F1, the successor to Ergast. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- CricketComing next.
06 — Questions
Fair questions.
Will it cover my menu bar?
At rest it sits beside the notch and can cover a menu title or status icon. The moment your pointer goes up there it folds away and drops below the notch, so everything underneath is clickable. You can also set how far it reaches, or keep it in the strip below the notch.
Does it need any permissions?
None. It needs outgoing network access and nothing else. Keys and tokens are stored in your Mac's Keychain and only ever sent to the service they belong to.
What about Macs without a notch?
It draws a notch-shaped black pill at the top of the screen, or stays hidden — your choice.
How do I get live Indian prices?
With an Upstox account, generate a free read-only Analytics Token (valid for a year) and paste it into Settings. No daily login.
Why does macOS warn me when I first open it?
Apps from outside the App Store are checked by Apple before they open. This beta hasn't been through Apple's verification yet, so macOS asks you to approve it yourself, once, in Privacy & Security. The Apple-verified version is coming soon and won't need this step.
Is it free?
The beta is free.
Your notch was doing nothing.
Download the beta for MacApple-verified build coming soon · first-launch steps