Changelog — FloatPill

3.0

28 September 2026

Already have it? Update from the notch: your licence, settings and permissions stay exactly as they are.

Dynamic Notch is now FloatPill. The name now says what you see most: the small pill that floats under the closed notch. Nothing else changes — same app, same modules, same licence.
No more two copies. If you install the new download next to the old app, FloatPill moves the older copy to the Trash for you. It goes to the Trash, not away for good.
Updating from the notch no longer gets stuck. When the new version is already in Applications, the card offers Open instead of spinning forever.
A copy that macOS runs from a temporary location no longer offers to install itself, which could have removed the very app it was running from.

2.6

21 September 2026

Already bought it? This is your update: the licence stays where it is. The first time it starts, a short tour opens in the notch — skip it if you know your way around.

How much Claude you have left, right in the notch. A small ring next to the gear shows how much of your session you have used, and hovering it shows the week too. While Claude or ChatGPT is in front, a card under the closed notch keeps the number in view. It turns orange past three quarters and red when you are nearly out. The numbers come from the Claude and ChatGPT apps already on your Mac: no password, no sign-in, nothing sent anywhere. For ChatGPT these are the Codex limits — plain chat has no meter to read.
It tells you when you are back. When a limit you had hit resets, the notch says so — “Claude is back” — even if the app is closed.
“Claude is done”, “ChatGPT needs you”. Start a long task, switch to something else, and the notch tells you when the agent finishes or asks for your permission. It stays quiet while you are already looking at the app. To turn it on, press one button in Settings and paste the message it copies into Claude Code or ChatGPT: they set themselves up. ChatGPT then asks you to approve it with /hooks.
A short tour on first launch. Eleven screens walk through every module, what appears under the notch and the new Claude and ChatGPT features. It opens once, and you can see it again from Settings.

Claude is a trademark of Anthropic and ChatGPT of OpenAI. FloatPill is not affiliated with either.

2.5

20 September 2026

Download 2.5

Already bought it? Nothing changes for you: your licence is found where it has always been, and no trial starts on a Mac that has seen a key.

Seven days free, and nothing to fill in. A fresh install now runs for a week with every module unlocked — no account, no email, no card. On the last day a card appears under the notch; when the week is over the notch itself opens and asks for a key, instead of a system dialog in the middle of the screen that looked like it belonged to some other app.
You can buy from inside it. The moment the trial ends is the moment you decide, and until now the only alternative to “Activate” was “Quit”: to pay you had to close the app and go find the site. There is now a Buy button where it matters, and a key can be entered from Settings at any point during the week without waiting for the trial to run out.

2.4.2

12 September 2026

Already bought it? This is your update: the licence stays where it is, so replacing the app in Applications will not even ask for your key.

A safety net inside the updater. macOS refuses writes inside an app bundle that is already installed — measured while testing this release: swapping the app in place fails with “Operation not permitted”, while removing it and copying the new one succeeds. An app replacing *itself* is allowed, but if the system ever says no, the update now takes the long way round instead of giving up halfway.

2.4.1

12 September 2026

It follows what is actually playing. With a video running on Prime, Netflix or any other site, pressing “Watch in the notch” opened an old YouTube tab instead — the notch looked among YouTube tabs only and, finding none playing, fell back to the first one it saw. It now asks the browser which tab is playing, whatever the site, and says plainly when that video cannot be moved into the notch. Netflix, Prime and the like never will: their video is DRM-protected and has no embeddable player.
Pause from the notch now stops any site. A consequence of the same fix: stopping a video works everywhere, it is only playing it elsewhere that does not.
Updates install themselves. The card under the notch gains an Update button: it downloads the new version, checks it is signed by the same developer certificate — a package signed by anyone else is refused — puts it in place of the old one, and restarts. Your licence is untouched. From this version on; updating to 2.4.1 is still a manual download.

2.4

12 September 2026

The notch now sees what your browser is playing. A video in Safari, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi or Arc — YouTube, a livestream, a lecture — appears under the notch with its title and its controls, the way Apple Music and Spotify always have. Nothing to switch on, and it covers Deezer and the other players that never provided track data either.
Watch it in the notch. One click lifts a YouTube video out of the tab into a small player under the notch, resuming at the exact second the tab had reached and pausing the tab so nothing plays twice. Drag the bottom-right corner to resize it — it remembers the size — and hand the video back to the browser, at the second you got to, whenever you want.
It asks when you leave the browser. Step away from a playing video and a small pill offers to carry it under the notch. Say no, or say nothing for ten seconds, and the plain pill with the title stays; it will not ask again for that video.
Nothing sits on top of a film. While any app is full-screen the cards under the notch stay out of the way, with one deliberate exception: an alarm or a reminder waiting for your answer still comes through.
Exact control of the tab, if you allow it. Browsers keep “Allow JavaScript from Apple Events” switched off in their Developer menu. Turn it on and FloatPill pauses precisely the tab you are watching, keeps it matched to the notch player second by second, and hands the video back without reloading the page. Leave it off and everything still works, with less precision.

2.3

6 September 2026

It tells you when there is an update. Until now nothing did: you had to notice on your own and go back to your receipt. A card now appears under the notch when a newer version is out, and Settings shows the version you are running with a button to check on demand. The app asks this site once a day and nothing else — no account, no identifier, no telemetry.
Text files can be dropped into the tray. They used to vanish in silence. A .txt is the one common file that also counts as plain text, so the tray read its contents instead of taking the file, decided the text was not a web link, and discarded it without a word. Images and documents were never affected, which is exactly why it went unnoticed for so long.
Files keep their names. A dropped image was stored under a generated name and came back out of the tray called “image.png” — its real name never reached the app at all. It is preserved now, both in the list and when you drag the file back out to a folder.
Dragging a file out of the notch actually drops it. The panel is a good deal larger than the notch you can see, and while open it was catching the drop across all of it: the file showed a green “+” over your folder and then landed nowhere. The notch now closes the moment the file leaves its edges.
A discreet notch, if you want one. New in Settings: at rest the notch shrinks to a small tab at the edge of the screen and opens as the pointer approaches. It frees up the menu bar on Macs without a physical notch, and cuts down accidental openings on the ones that have it.
Settings rebuilt. Grouped into General, Appearance, Under the notch and Privacy — and Quit moved to the bottom, where an action that closes the app belongs, instead of halfway down the list between two switches.

2.2.1

6 September 2026

The closed notch no longer spills outside the real one. The panel was centred on the screen — but the notch is not centred on the screen. On a MacBook Pro the strips either side of it measure 665 and 662 points, so the pill sat a point and a half to the left and its edge showed against the black. Its height came from the menu bar, which is a point taller than the cutout, so it also showed below. Both are now measured from the cutout itself, and the pill sits inside it with a margin.
It is black now, not light grey. On a Mac with a notch the closed pill is meant to disappear into the cutout, and a translucent material never could. On a Mac without one it keeps that material, so it settles into whatever is behind it instead of sitting there as a black slab.

2.2

6 September 2026

Now runs on macOS 14 Sonoma and later. The app used to ask for macOS 26.4, which it never actually needed: nothing it does relies on anything newer. Nothing about the app itself changed — on macOS 26 it looks and behaves exactly as before — it simply installs on a great many more Macs, including the ones macOS 26 left behind.

2.1

5 September 2026

Italian, English and Spanish. The app declared itself English and then spoke Italian: dates came out in English inside an all-Italian interface, and voice memos were transcribed into invented English. It is now properly localised, permission prompts included, and you can switch language from Settings.
Calendar and reminders. A new module shows today’s events under the notch before they start, and lets you create a reminder — typed or dictated — with an exact time, a repeat and an early alert.
An Install button. Running from the disk image left macOS unable to register the app at login. The app now notices and offers to copy itself into Applications, instead of asking you to drag it there.
Much lower idle cost. The equalizer and the progress line on the media card were redrawing the whole card through a blurred material; moved to Core Animation, the app’s own CPU use at rest fell from 6.4% to 0.33%.
A notch shape on Macs without a notch, measured from the screen instead of assumed.
Licence fixes. Every background re-check used to burn one of your activations, and a Lemon Squeezy key from any other product would unlock the app. Both corrected.
Signed and notarised properly. The disk image itself is now signed, notarised and stapled, not just the app inside it.

2.0

April 2026

The rewrite: Smart Tray, clipboard history, voice memos, focus timer, media player and webcam mirror, all inside the notch.