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notchman vs Atoll. Side by side, facts from their own site.
Atoll is a free, GPL-licensed notch app whose README credits The Boring Notch as its foundation. It adds clipboard history, timers, calendar previews, battery and charging live activities, privacy indicators for the camera and microphone, and a lock-screen weather widget. It needs a MacBook with a notch.
Facts about Atoll are from its own site, read on 2026-10-04. If something is out of date, email hello@notchman.com.
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| notchman | Atoll | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 until 15 October, then $19.99, one-time | Free, open source (GPL-3.0) |
| Focus | Twenty-one daily tools in a tabbed panel | Dynamic Island: media, live activities, widgets |
| Now playing | With karaoke lyrics, album glow and hover controls | Apple Music, Spotify, Cider |
| File shelf | With AirDrop | |
| Clipboard history | With snippets, Paste as… and Grab text | |
| Calendar and timers | ||
| Dictation and rewriting in any app | ⌥⌘K and ⌥⌘L | |
| Tasks, reminders, notes | Not stated | |
| Claude and Codex usage limits | ||
| Teleprompter and camera mirror | Not stated | |
| Works on Macs without a notch | Needs a MacBook with a notch | |
| Requirements | macOS 14+, Apple silicon and Intel | macOS 14+ |
Only in notchman
- Dictation into any app (⌥⌘K) and rewriting any selected text with one shortcut (⌥⌘L)
- AirDrop from the shelf
- Tasks, reminders and notes
- Claude and Codex usage limits
- Teleprompter and camera mirror
- Works on external displays and Macs without a notch
- A signed, notarised build with automatic updates
Choose notchman if
Choose notchman if you want to talk instead of typing (⌥⌘K) and fix any text with one key (⌥⌘L), in every app, and keep your tasks, notes and timers one hover away, on any Mac and any display.
Questions. About the two.
Is Atoll the same as The Boring Notch?
It's built on it: Atoll's README credits The Boring Notch as its foundational codebase, and adds widgets such as clipboard, timers and weather.
Does Atoll work on an external display?
Its README asks for a MacBook with a notch. notchman works on any display, drawing a small tab where there is no notch.
Can I run both?
Not usefully. Both take over the notch area, so pick one.
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Updated 2026-10-04. Atoll is a trademark of its owner; this page is an independent comparison.