Your MacBook notch, upgraded.

A macOS utility that transforms the MacBook notch into a dynamic control center — media player, widgets, HUD, file drop zone, and more.

• Inline controls for Spotify and Apple Music
• Album art, track info, and progress bar
• Swipe gestures to skip tracks
• Works on macOS 14+ with app-specific fallbacks when MediaRemote returns empty data

Open the widget drawer to access:

• Clipboard History — recent copies, one-click paste
• Timer / Stopwatch — quick countdown or stopwatch
• Calendar — today's events via EventKit
• Notes — quick capture scratch pad
• Shortcuts — run your Shortcuts from the notch
• Color Picker — pick and copy colors from screen
• Unit Converter — length, weight, temperature, etc.
• Webcam Mirror — quick camera preview
• System Stats — CPU and memory at a glance

• Volume and brightness sliders replace the default macOS HUD
• Best-effort native HUD suppression
• Appears in-notch, dismisses automatically

Drag files onto the notch to trigger actions:

• Built-in: compress image, OCR text extraction
• Shortcuts: pipe files through any Shortcut
• Shell scripts: custom processing pipelines
• Chain actions together with pipeline support

The notch adapts automatically:

• App-based — show specific widgets per frontmost app
• Time-based — different layouts for morning, work, evening
• Focus Mode — respect macOS Focus settings

• Camera and microphone in-use indicators
• Screen recording indicator with pulsing dot

• macOS 14.0 (Sonoma) or later
• MacBook with notch (M1 Pro/Max or later)

xcodebuild build -project Hoop.xcodeproj -scheme Hoop

Or open Hoop.xcodeproj in Xcode and hit Run.

Hoop runs as a menu bar agent (no dock icon). An NSPanel overlay sits on top of the notch and responds to hover, click, or global hotkey. The panel uses a custom concave notch shape with spring animations for expand/collapse transitions, backed by NSVisualEffectView for vibrancy.

Services are @Observable singletons managed by NotchWindowManager. Media playback uses Apple's private MediaRemote.framework via dlopen, with Spotify distributed notifications and Apple Music AppleScript polling as fallbacks.

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Made by Damola Olutoke