Turn your MacBook's notch into a quick launcher. Shove the cursor into the notch — or press ⌥Space — and a floating panel of your folders and apps appears. Launch, browse, drop files in, and it gets out of your way the moment you leave.
- Notch trigger — push the cursor all the way into the notch to open the panel. A deliberate gesture, so it never pops up while you use the menu bar.
- Works without a notch — on external displays, the top-center edge acts as the trigger zone (width adjustable in Settings).
- Global hotkey — ⌥Space toggles the panel anywhere, no accessibility permission required.
- In-panel browsing — click a folder to browse inside the panel: breadcrumb navigation, sorting, hidden-file toggle, search, and Quick Look preview.
- Drag & drop, both ways — drag files out to Finder or other apps; drop a file onto a folder tile to copy it there. You can even start a drag, shove into the notch mid-drag, and drop — all in one motion.
- Workspaces — separate sets of folders/apps for different contexts, switchable from the panel header.
- Stays out of your way — non-activating panel (never steals focus), auto-hides like the Dock, pin to keep it open. English & Korean UI.
- Native and tiny — pure Swift/SwiftUI + AppKit, zero dependencies, ~1 MB app.
- Download the latest
TopDock-x.y.z.zipfrom Releases and unzip into/Applications. - First launch is blocked by Gatekeeper (the app is not notarized): open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway.
- macOS will ask for access to folders (Desktop, Downloads, …) the first time you browse them — this is the standard per-folder privacy prompt.
Requires an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 14 or later.
git clone https://github.com/shr0eq/TopDock.git
cd TopDock
xcodebuild -project TopDock.xcodeproj -scheme TopDock -configuration Release buildThe bundle identifier keeps the project's original codename
(com.wonyoungchoi.NotchHub) so upgrades preserve user settings and
macOS privacy grants.
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Open panel | Push cursor fully into the notch (or top-center of an external display) · ⌥Space · menu bar icon |
| Open item | Click (folders browse in-panel; ⌘-click reveals in Finder) |
| Context menu | Right-click → Open · Reveal in Finder · Quick Look |
| File something away | Drag it onto a folder tile (copies, originals untouched) |
| Add items | Drop onto the empty grid area, or Settings → Items |
| Keep panel open | Pin button in the header |
| Switch workspace | Workspace menu in the header |
Notch geometry comes from public NSScreen APIs (safeAreaInsets,
auxiliaryTopLeftArea/RightArea); the trigger is a 2 pt strip at the very top edge,
watched by a global+local mouseMoved monitor with a dwell timer. The panel is a
borderless, non-activating NSPanel hosting SwiftUI, kept below the system drag
layer so drops route to it. Design notes and the pitfalls we hit along the way
(in Korean) live in docs/.
MIT — © 2026 Won-Young Choi. Built with the help of Claude Code.