Your notch,
brought to life.

€3.99. Once. No subscription, no account, and every update is free.

Yes. Enjoy every feature, free for three days. After that, a licence keeps the magic going.

As many as you choose when you buy: one key for 1, 2, 3 or 5 Macs, and the more Macs, the less each costs. To move it to another Mac, deactivate it in Settings › Licence first.

Absolutely. Within 14 days of purchase, no questions asked.

Your key arrives in your receipt email and appears in your Lemon Squeezy orders. Just click the notch (or open Settings › Licence), paste it in and press Activate. To move it to another Mac, deactivate it in Settings › Licence first.

Not at all. On displays without one, you choose in Settings: nothing at all, a notch drawn at the top of the screen, or a floating capsule in the menu bar. You can also pick which display the island lives on, in Settings or from Isly’s menu bar icon.

Just about all of them. Music, Spotify, your browser and any other app that reports to the system. By default, Isly follows whatever played last. You can also pin it to Spotify or Apple Music, which adds shuffle and repeat, and favourites in Apple Music.

Drag files onto the notch to keep them close. Then drag them out wherever you need them, one or several at once. Drop them on the AirDrop side to send them instead. Right-click a file to compress it, convert or shrink a picture, remove its background or copy the text in it. Click a file and press Space for Quick Look; ⌘C and ⌘V copy and paste, and new screenshots can land on the shelf by themselves. And while you’re dragging files anywhere, give the pointer a shake and a basket appears to drop them in. Nothing is copied or moved.

Of course. Isly’s menu bar icon does everything the player does: play and pause, skipping, 15-second jumps, shuffle, repeat, favourites, the output and mute.

Just click the notch, or scroll down on it. Keep scrolling to move between the player, calendar, shelf and timer. Scroll up a little to go back a tab, or all the way to close. Swipe sideways on the closed notch to skip a song.

Isly isn’t notarized yet, so macOS asks before the first launch. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway. You only do this once.

Every one of them is optional. Accessibility lets Isly replace the system volume and brightness HUD. Calendar and Reminders access show your events and today’s reminders. Focus status lets it show when a Focus turns on or off. Pinning Spotify or Apple Music asks once to control that app. Mirror asks for the camera, and the calendar’s weather for your location, only once you turn them on. Connecting the Claude Code extension adds a hook and a status line to Claude Code’s settings file (~/.claude/settings.json), which Disconnect removes again.

Yes, it works just the same. If you’d rather it stay out of the way, turn on Settings › Displays › Narrow in full-screen apps: the music and the track preview then stay hidden, while volume and battery readouts still appear.

Almost nothing. There’s no account. To count trials, Isly tells isly.app when one starts on a Mac, and whether it becomes a licence, under a random ID made for that Mac; you can turn this off in Settings › Licence. With Spotify as the source, Isly loads the cover and one small public page per track from Spotify, to show the artwork and the explicit mark. If you turn on Lyrics, each song’s title, artist, album and length go to LRCLIB (lrclib.net) to find them. If you turn on the calendar’s weather, your approximate location goes to MET Norway for the forecast. The camera in Mirror never leaves your Mac.

Yes. Turn on the Shortcuts extension, and Shortcuts, scripts and other apps can start their own Live Activities with an isly:// link, like isly://activity?text=Deploying&symbol=hammer.fill. Build finished, timer done, washing machine ready: whatever you like.

English, German, French and Spanish. Isly follows the language your Mac is set to.

macOS 14 or later. The Liquid Glass effects, like the Lock Screen player’s glass, need macOS 26.

Always. With Reduce Motion on, nothing bounces and covers fade in instead of turning. With Reduce Transparency or Increase Contrast, the island stays solid black, without glass or blur.