✨ What's New
🎵 Music & Media
- Compact player – Added a compact, player-focused layout for the opened notch with playback, shuffle, and media-output controls.
- Remaining time – Added an option to show remaining playback time instead of duration.
- Now Playing reliability – Improved availability detection, fallback behavior, connection recovery, and user-facing recovery notices when Now Playing is unavailable.
- Artwork reliability – Fixed artwork disappearing during lightweight Now Playing updates and stale artwork caused by Safari Private Browsing and browser helper processes. — @rogedev, @SpaceCypher
- YouTube Music / Pear – Improved observer persistence, WebSocket reconnection, connection-state handling, and authentication compatibility. — @cjuriartec
- Lyrics – Synced lyrics now follow their actual playback timing for smoother line-by-line scrolling.
- Real-time audio waveform – Added a waveform visualizer option that uses real-time captured audio on supported macOS versions (14.2+), and significantly improved the performance of the original visualizer.
- Dynamic audio output – You can now control the active audio route, including speakers, wired headphones, AirPods, Bluetooth devices, and external outputs. — @colinchambachan
- Media gestures – Added horizontal gestures for media controls and improved gesture behavior across the music area.
📅 Calendar & Reminders
- Weekly calendar view – Added an optional week-based calendar view with a configurable week start: System, Sunday, or Monday. — @TemujinCalidius
- Join meetings from events – Calendar events can detect supported meeting links and open them directly from the notch. Supports Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Whereby, and Jitsi. — @Subhanshu20101
- Calendar navigation – Added vertical scroll navigation for the date picker and improved week-based navigation behavior.
- Reminder date reliability – Improved all-day reminder handling across local time zones and daylight-saving boundaries so reminders retain their correct calendar date.
🎛️ OSD (formerly HUD) & System Controls
- Renamed HUD to OSD – Now uses the more appropriate term in English, which was already used in some localizations.
- Smoother brightness control – Brightness adjustments now use smoother stepping with reduced jumps and improved hold behavior. — @benjaminfrombe
- BetterDisplay & Lunar – Added and improved real-time brightness event streaming and control through external display providers.
- Key reliability – Improved key interception and recovery.
- Audio and display routing – Improved handling of built-in and external display/control sources and their availability.
🔔 Notification Mirroring
- Notifications in the notch – Mirrors visible notification banners in the notch with the sending application's icon.
- App filtering – Choose whether to mirror notifications from all apps or only selected applications.
- Notification queue – Multiple incoming notifications can now be queued and browsed from the expanded notification.
- Closed-notch indicator – New notification activity feedback appears while the notch is closed.
- Notification reliability – Improved banner discovery, XPC delivery, focus handling, stale-banner handling, and Notification Center interaction.
- Accessibility-aware mirroring – Notification mirroring now checks Accessibility authorization in real time and provides a direct way to grant access when required.
🔋 Battery
- Charging wattage – Shows the connected power adapter's reported wattage in the battery popover. — @isaacau502
- Time until empty – Added a battery discharge estimate alongside time to full charge. — @lasersushi
- Better charge formatting – Charge estimates now use localized hour/minute formatting instead of a raw minute count. — @lasersushi
- Battery health – Improved maximum-capacity detection and correctly handles cases where battery-health information is unavailable.
📦 Shelf
- More reliable Shelf interactions – Improved selection, hit testing, multi-item dragging, context menus, double-click behavior, and Quick Look synchronization.
- Reverse Shelf ordering – Added an option to keep newer Shelf items at the front. — @yannip1234
- Shelf controls – Added the ability to disable Shelf behavior entirely when it is not needed.
- Sharing improvements – Improved Quick Share provider discovery and application-icon handling.
📷 Camera & Mirror
- Improved camera reliability – Reworked the camera for increased reliability, particularly on multiple-display setups.
- Camera recovery – Improved permission handling, camera selection, disconnect/reconnect recovery, interruption handling, sleep/wake recovery, and display lifecycle management.
- Camera selection – Added camera selection for the Mirror feature, with an Automatic mode that prefers the built-in camera. — @ReubenCowell
- Mirror controls – Added a setting to switch between mirrored and natural camera output. — @anmolmalhotra97
⚙️ Settings & Appearance
- Reworked Settings navigation – Settings are now organized into dedicated sections for Notch, Appearance, Media, Calendar, Shelf, Mirror, Battery, OSD, Notifications, Shortcuts, and About.
- Dedicated Notch settings – Added a dedicated Notch section for sizing, hover behavior, gestures, animation, and window behavior.
- Appearance controls – Moved accent-color customization into Appearance and expanded custom accent-color options.
- Animation control – Added a setting to control the notch opening-animation speed. — @Amorfx
- Language selection – Added an in-app language selector with a restart prompt when required.
- Bug report button – Added an in-app bug report button in the About section which opens the GitHub Issue form page with app version and os version pre-filled
🔄 Software Updates
- Update channels – Added channel-aware update support for Stable, Beta, and Nightly builds, with the available channels determined by the current build. — @notluquis
- Safer updates – Improved the updater with additional installer security improvements.
🚀 Accessibility & Onboarding
- macOS 27 compatibility – Accessibility permission references now use the current macOS terminology (Device Control and Data Access) and localization, with a fallback for compatibility.
- Improved permission checks – Accessibility-dependent features now properly check authorization instead of sometimes relying on stale permission state.
- Improved onboarding – Refined permission handling and onboarding flows, including audio-capture permission setup.
🛠️ Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed Shelf files being dragged into WhatsApp as text paths instead of actual file attachments. — @ShehanCes
- Fixed inconsistent Home ↔ Shelf tab-switch animations. — @ShehanCes
- Fixed album art alignment in the live activity view
- Fixed calendar month/year alignment and expanded the clickable area for calendar dates. — @mlbonniec
- Fixed Apple Music favorite actions. — @karadoganyi
- Normalized notch gesture direction when macOS Natural Scrolling is disabled. — @karadoganyi
- Fixed long Quick Share provider names not being centered correctly. — @daemonsloth
- Fixed notch content being vertically offset on some displays. — @KoukeNeko
- Fixed the DMG background lookup and clarified the copy-to-Applications installation flow.
- Removed the deprecated Homebrew quarantine-installation flag and updated related installation guidance. — @ftery0
- Improved locale-aware formatting across settings, battery, OSD, progress indicators, and accessibility labels.
- Improved localization coverage for media controls, Shelf actions, native dialogs, and settings.
- Improved concurrency safety, lifecycle management, and internal architecture to reduce races, retain cycles, and unnecessary background work. — @Dbhardwaj99
- Updated dependencies used by the project.
👋 New Contributors
@adam-dziuk · @karadoganyi · @benjaminfrombe · @daemonsloth · @mlbonniec · @KoukeNeko · @Amorfx · @ftery0 · @anmolmalhotra97 · @colinchambachan · @ReubenCowell · @cjuriartec · @lasersushi · @Etzeo · @yannip1234 · @TemujinCalidius · @ShehanCes · @isaacau502 · @SpaceCypher · @morriisan · @Dbhardwaj99 · @rogedev · @Subhanshu20101 · @notluquis
Thank you to everyone who contributed code, translations, testing, bug reports, and feedback to this release!