Oreo

Live activities and widgets in your Mac's notch.

Free · $12.99 one-time, every Mac you ownmacOSmacOS 15+ · Apple Silicon

A macOS notch utility: Dynamic-Island live activities plus a drawer with widgets and a file tray. Apple Silicon, macOS 15+.

What it’s for, in plain terms

The notch on your MacBook is a hole in the screen you paid for. Oreo turns the space around it into somewhere useful: what's playing, what's running, and a shelf to park files on.

You want to know the song without leaving the document

Now playing lives in the notch and expands when you point at it. No app switch, no window, no cover art taking up a corner of the screen.

You're moving a file between two windows

Drag it into the notch and let go. It waits there while you find the other app, another desktop, or the right folder, then you drag it out.

System pop-ups keep landing over your video

Volume, brightness and AirPods connecting show up as small capsules at the top of the screen instead of the big translucent square in the middle of whatever you were watching.

You're waiting on something long

Timers and background tasks stay visible up there while you work, so you stop checking on them.

Getting the best out of it

Hover, don't clickAlmost everything expands on approach. If you find yourself clicking, you're working harder than the app expects.
Use the tray for the awkward movesDragging between spaces or full-screen apps is where the shelf earns its place. Park it, switch, take it out.
It's one price for all your Macs$12 once, not per machine and not per year.
Check your Mac firstIt needs a notch, Apple Silicon and macOS 15 or newer. On anything older there's nothing for it to live in.

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