Free macOS app

Your notch, now a dashboard

Ledge turns the MacBook notch into an interactive hub. Hover and it expands into live modules — what's playing, your calendar, the weather, a file shelf, clipboard history, timers. Move away and it melts back into the notch.

Download for macOS View on GitHub

macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · Universal & notch-less Macs

First launch: Ledge isn't notarized yet, so macOS may flag it. In Applications, right-click (or Control-click) Ledge → Open → Open. You only do this once.

Prefer Homebrew?

brew install --cask shaferllc/tap/ledge
Ledge
Now Playing

Midnight City

M83

📅Calendar

Sat, Jul 18

Next · 9:00 Standup

MTWTFSS
⛅️Weather

72°

San Francisco

H:78 L:61 · Partly cloudy

Hover the notch to expand ↑

Ledge's expanded dashboard: Now Playing, file shelf, calendar, weather, system stats, clipboard, and timer modules in a row
The expanded dashboard — scroll to see every module

Alive in the notch

The notch reacts to what you're doing — not just a launcher, a living surface.

Hover to expand

Move the cursor to the notch and the dashboard drops down like a shade. Leave and it collapses.

Volume & brightness HUD

Changing volume or brightness flashes a bar right in the notch, not a floating box mid-screen.

Drag to stash

Drag a file toward the notch and it opens as a drop target for the Shelf.

Live activity

While music plays the collapsed bar widens to show album art and an equalizer beside the notch.

One notch, twenty-plus modules

Turn on what you want, drag to reorder, pick an accent color and size.

Now Playing

Scrubber, spectrum, and play/skip for Spotify or Music

Calendar

Today's events with one-click Join for Zoom/Meet/Teams

Weather

Current conditions plus hourly and 6-day forecast

File Shelf

Stash files, then drag out, AirDrop, Zip, or reveal

Clipboard

Recent copies — text, links, colors, images — pin favorites

System

Live CPU, memory, battery, and top process

Timers

Pomodoro, stopwatch, and quick countdowns

And more

Network, Storage, World Clock, Notes, Bluetooth, Camera…

Up and running in a minute

  1. 1

    Download & open

    Grab the DMG and drag Ledge into your Applications folder. First time only: right-click Ledge → Open to clear macOS's unidentified-developer check.

  2. 2

    Launch it

    Ledge lives in the menu bar — no Dock icon. It settles into the notch (or a small pill on notch-less Macs).

  3. 3

    Grant a few permissions

    A one-time welcome asks for Calendar, Reminders, media control, Location, and Camera — grant only what you want.

Download Ledge

Free & open source · Source on GitHub