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MacBook owners who want a useful notch without paying for a separate utility.

Why it deserves attention

Boring Notch reclaims the notch area: hover it and it expands into music controls with album art, upcoming calendar events, a quick camera mirror, battery status, a drag-and-drop file shelf and redesigned HUD sliders for volume and brightness. It is GPLv3, completely free, has passed 50,000 downloads with about 2.5K GitHub stars, and installs in seconds — no account, no telemetry, no subscription. The caveats: it only makes sense on MacBooks that actually have a notch, deeper customisation is limited compared with paid notch apps, and as a community project it depends on volunteer maintenance for new macOS releases.

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