Ledge - music, your next meeting, and more in the MacBook notch
Your MacBook's notch, put to work - music, timers, calendar and weather where your eyes already are. - egemertbalcik/Ledge
Quick read
Ledge is a free, open-source macOS app that uses the MacBook notch as a live status area for music, timers, meetings, weather, notes and quick controls. You would visit the repo to download the signed DMG, inspect or build the source, and learn about its permissions, requirements, and implementation details.
- Shows now playing, timers, next meeting and weather in the notch
- Keep Awake holds the Mac and can keep lid-closed activity running
- Source includes build instructions, permissions, and GPL-3.0 license
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A closer look at Ledge - music, your next meeting, and more in the MacBook notch
What Ledge puts in your MacBook notch
Ledge is an open-source notch app for MacBook that shows live status items in the notch area: now playing (with cover art, title, scrub bar and transport/send-to-AirPods controls), a timer, your next meeting with a camera mirror on the Join button, weather, notes, Keep Awake (including lid-closed mode), AirPods, and volume and brightness readouts.
It is designed to be quiet when nothing is happening and appear where your eyes already look: the black bar around the notch.
How it works and what it asks for
Ledge is GPL-3.0 source code; the repository includes the full source. It ships signed and notarized and records no audio or screen.
It uses a few private macOS frameworks to offer features macOS does not expose publicly, and installs a small helper when needed (for Keep Awake lid-closed a root helper manages a 90-second lease). Permissions are requested by the feature that needs them from Settings, and nothing is asked at launch.
Only four network calls occur: weather (Open-Meteo, location rounded), place name (Apple), cover art, and update checks.
Who it’s for and how to get it running
You need a MacBook with a notch running macOS 26 or later; Ledge draws only on that built-in display. It is not sandboxed and may break on macOS updates, and it cannot be sold on the App Store.
To try it: download the DMG, drag Ledge into Applications and open it from Finder (starting from a terminal hands permissions to the terminal). It keeps itself up to date with Sparkle and exposes Settings and Quit inside the app.
Questions people ask about Ledge - music, your next meeting, and more in the MacBook notch
- Does Ledge record my camera, microphone, or screen?
- No; Ledge records nothing from the camera, audio or screen, and the camera mirror opens only when you press Join.
- Will it work on an external monitor?
- No; Ledge draws only on the MacBook's built-in display with a notch and nowhere else by design.
- Do I need special build tools or signing to build it?
- Yes; the project requires Swift 6.2 and an Apple Development signing identity to build.
Ledge - music, your next meeting, and more in the MacBook notch was shared on NexURLs by Nexis on October 26, 2026, in Music.
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What is Ledge?
Ledge (github.com): Ledge is a free, open-source macOS app that uses the MacBook notch as a live status area for music, timers, meetings, weather, notes and quick controls. You would visit the repo to download the signed DMG, inspect or build the source, and learn about its permissions, requirements, and...
Who shared Ledge on NexURLs?
It was shared by Nexis in October 2026. Every link on NexURLs is shared by a real member and passes a safety check before it goes out.
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