Five months of NotchPad: what changed since launch
When I launched NotchPad on Product Hunt in February, it was intentionally small: notes, clipboard history, and reusable snippets inside the MacBook notch.
Five months and more than 20 releases later, it has grown into something much more complete.
Here’s what changed.
Notes became a proper workspace
NotchPad notes now support images, tables, interactive checklists, typography controls, search, pins, and richer formatting.
You can also drop in more than 50 file types—including Markdown, Word documents, PDFs, Swift, Python, and JavaScript—to turn them into notes.
Organization arrived
Notes can now be organized into folders manually.
On Macs with Apple Intelligence, NotchPad can also suggest folders using note titles and short summaries. Locked notes are skipped, existing folders are respected, and every suggestion is reviewed before anything changes.
AI became useful inside existing notes
NotchPad AI can rewrite, proofread, summarize, translate, generate titles, create tables, and clean up notes using Apple Intelligence on supported Macs.
The important part for me was keeping AI inside the capture workflow instead of turning NotchPad into another chatbot.
Clipboard History and Snippets grew up
Clipboard History now supports richer previews for copied text, links, colors, images, videos, and Finder files.
Snippets and clipboard items have visible copy controls, search, pinning, merging, and reusable file references. Sensitive text copied from 1Password, Bitwarden, and Apple Passwords can be encrypted with AES-256-GCM and revealed with Touch ID.
Apple Notes and NotchLive joined the workflow
You can browse, search, and edit Apple Notes directly from NotchPad.
NotchPad also works with NotchLive for voice capture: dictate and clean up a note in NotchLive, then send it back into NotchPad.
NotchPad can leave the notch
Floating Mode lets you move NotchPad anywhere on screen and snap it back when you’re finished.
Ghost Privacy keeps NotchPad visible to you while hiding it from screen shares and recordings—useful for talking points, demos, tutorials, and client calls.
What’s new in 1.5.3
The latest release focuses on making all of this fit together better:
Settings now open as a scrollable surface inside NotchPad.
Folders live inside the All Notes menu, leaving more room for notes.
New installs start with balanced Standard dimensions.
Onboarding is simpler.
The Dock icon is properly sized.
Optional anonymous diagnostics can be disabled and never include user content.
I’d love to know: which part of NotchPad has become most useful to you—notes, clipboard history, snippets, folders, or the presenting/privacy tools?
Download NotchPad: https://notchpad.app
Full release history: https://notchpad.app/releases
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