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Soffit.

A quiet status layer for the top edge of your Mac.

One surface. One thing at a time.

Clipboard

Items: 6
Up and down arrows move through the list, Return pastes. With Command or Control: C copies without pasting, P keeps this one, Delete removes it.

  • swift test --parallel

    Visual Studio Code

  • The finished underside of an overhang.

    Visual Studio Code

  • ditto -c -k --keepParent build/Soffit.app Soffit.zip

    Terminal

  • https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nspanel

    Safari

  • defaults read com.apple.dock autohide

    Terminal

  • Meet at 4, not 3. The room moved.

    Messages

Kept in memory only.

History100 items

Timers

00:05.1

The timers, open.

Stopwatch · paused

00:05.1
Closed, and still reading it back.

A stopwatch with laps, and a countdown.

Focus blocks25 / 5 / 15 × 4

Now playing

A scrubber you can drag.

Soft Architecture

Nell Havard

1:11
-2:37

Shelf

2 files

Screenshot 2026-09-18 at 16.01.12.png
Q3 invoice 0932.pdf

Drag files onto the notch from any app and they wait there.

Shelf24 tiles

Volume and brightness

Volume and brightness in the notch, instead of the panel in the middle of your screen.

Up and down arrows change the volume while this row has focus.Volume 50%

Steps16

Battery

A warning before the battery runs out, and again, and again.

Warns at20 / 10 / 5%

Status

The time, the date, the battery and the volume, for when nothing else is happening.

80%

On Power

45%

Volume

Sidekick

Googly eyes, or a cat, panda, owl, frog or dog, watching your pointer from the menu bar. As big as your menu bar allows.

The left eye answers a left click.

Two things need Accessibility: replacing macOS’s volume and brightness panel, and pressing ⌘V for you. Now playing asks once to talk to Music and Spotify. Nothing else asks for anything.

How to install it