Everything CoinNotch does, feature by feature
CoinNotch puts live crypto prices in the macOS menu bar and notch area. Its core features are a one-second live ticker, multi-coin watchlists in cycle or side-by-side mode, threshold and percentage price alerts, an expandable panel with a chart and 24-hour stats, currency and precision options, battery-friendly polling, and a privacy-first design with no account or wallet. It is free, native on Apple Silicon and Intel, and runs on macOS 13 and later.
CoinNotch does one thing, keep crypto prices in front of you, and it does that thing thoroughly. This page is the complete tour of what the app offers, from the core ticker to the smaller touches that make it pleasant to live with. Everything here is in service of a single idea: the price should be something you glance at, never something you go looking for.
The live notch ticker
The heart of the app is a live price chip that sits in the menu bar beside the notch and updates about once a second from an aggregated, volume-weighted market feed. The price flicks green or red as it moves, so you read direction before you read the number, and it is there across every app, every Space, and every fullscreen video. On Macs without a notch it simply sits in the menu bar as usual. This is the feature everything else is built around.
Multi-coin watchlists
Pin as many coins as you like and show them two ways. Cycle mode rotates your whole list through a single chip, keeping the footprint tiny while every coin passes through your peripheral vision. Side-by-side mode shows several coins at once for people with the screen space. Drag to reorder, so your most important asset leads. A dedicated guide to tracking multiple coins covers this in depth.
Price alerts
Set threshold alerts that fire when a coin crosses a fixed price, or percentage-move alerts that fire on a big swing inside 24 hours. Both arrive as quiet native macOS notifications and run locally on your machine, riding the price feed the app already maintains so they cost nothing extra in battery. The alerts guide explains when to use each.
The expandable panel
Click any coin to open a panel with a sparkline chart, the 24-hour high and low, market cap, and the percentage move, plus a timeframe toggle that reaches back over different windows. It turns a single number into a fuller picture of the day without sending you to a separate chart site. Reading these stats together is covered in the 24-hour range guide.
Put crypto in your notch, free
macOS 13 and later. Apple Silicon and Intel. No account, no wallet, no tracking.
Download for MacCurrency and display options
Quote prices in US dollars or any major fiat, with conversions using live FX rates. Choose how compact the chip is, from a bare price to price-plus-percentage to a full symbol-and-price chip, and set the decimal precision per coin, none for a five-figure asset, several for a sub-dollar one. The app follows your system appearance, blending into dark or light menu bars automatically.
Battery and privacy
CoinNotch is a native macOS app with a tiny memory footprint, not a web view wrapped in a window, and it pauses polling when your Mac sleeps and can back off its interval on battery. On privacy, it has no account, never touches a wallet, requests no sensitive permissions, and keeps settings local, the full story is in the privacy review. It is free, runs on macOS 13 and later on both Apple Silicon and Intel, and is also available through Setapp.