NewLaTeX Grab, Diagram Grab & Live Flights

Your notch,
finally useful.

Cove turns your MacBook notch into a fast, native Dynamic Island. Live activities, widgets, a file shelf, capture tools and on-device AI. Free forever. Pro is $5, once.

Download for MacGet Pro · $5 once

macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon (M1 and later) · No account · No subscription

Tap the notch to open Cove. Pick a live activity below it.

Live activities · Free

Everything happening on your Mac, at a glance.

Cove listens for events instead of polling, so live activities appear instantly and cost nothing when idle.

  1. Music, right where you look

    Album art and live audio bars for Apple Music, Spotify and your browser. Hover to scrub, skip or pause.

  2. Timers that stay out of the way

    Start a countdown from the notch and keep working. It ticks quietly until it's time.

  3. Follow a flight, live

    Copy a flight number or keep one in your calendar. Cove shows progress, time left and landing alerts.

  4. AirPods, connected

    Battery for each AirPod and your other Bluetooth gear the moment they connect.

  5. Know who's listening

    An indicator names the app using your mic or camera, and you can mute the mic from the notch.

  6. Downloads at a glance

    Progress from Safari, Chrome, Arc, Edge, Brave, Firefox and Opera, without opening the browser.

  7. Charging, beautifully

    Plug in and the notch tells you exactly where you're at. Low battery? You'll know first.

Widgets & tools · Free

A whole toolbox, one hover away.

Pull down the notch for widgets, a file shelf and capture tools. All free, all native, all fast.

Shelf

Drag files into the notch, then drag them out wherever you need them. AirDrop and Quick Look built in.

hero@2x.png
Invoice.pdf
demo.mov

Maps & Leave-by

Live ETA and route to your next event, and a nudge when it's time to leave.

Leave by 10:12 · 18 min

Weather

Local conditions and forecast from MET Norway, no account or API key needed.

To-dos & Notes

Capture a task or a thought without switching apps.

Quick Launch & Shortcuts

Pin your favourite apps and run Apple Shortcuts from the notch.

Area Capture

Press ⌃⇧A, drag a region, and it opens straight in the editor.

Image Editor & Markup

Crop, rotate and mark up with pen, highlighter, arrows, boxes, circles, text, steps and mosaic.

Color Picker

Pick any colour on screen and copy its HEX in one click.

On-device AI

Smart tools. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Dictation, translation, OCR, LaTeX and diagram extraction all run locally on Apple Silicon. No account, no upload, no waiting on a server.

LaTeX Grab

Equations, tables and pages → LaTeX or Markdown

Pro
Screen∫∞0e−x²dx=√π2
LaTeX

Dictation

Hold a key, speak, and it types into any app

Free
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Messages

Text Grab

OCR any region, or scan a QR code off the screen.

Diagram Grab

Every figure in a PDF, as true vector SVG.

Translate

Apple Translation or a free local model.

Processed on this Mac. Cove never uploads your screen, voice or files.

Cove Pro · $5 once

15 power tools for less than a coffee.

Pay once, keep it forever. No subscription and no upsells. The price is locked.

Edit, convert and compress without opening another app.

Get Cove Pro · $5See every Pro feature
Engineering

Native and light. Built different.

SwiftUI and AppKit for the interface, Rust for the heavy lifting. Cove stays out of your way and off your battery.

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features free, forever

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Pro power tools

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accounts or subscriptions

Event-driven

No background polling for media, battery, calendar or Bluetooth. Timers use one-shot dispatch, never a 1 Hz tick.

Rust core

File pipelines, fuzzy search, image LUTs and license checks run in a native Rust core with fat LTO.

Tiny footprint

The panel's view tree exists only while it's open. arm64-only, -Osize builds and dead-code stripping.

Private by design

On-device AI, password managers ignored, and the license is verified offline. No phone-home checks.

Compare

Free where it counts. Pro where it matters.

Cove matches the popular notch apps on the basics for free, then goes further with real work tools.

Cove compared with Notchy
FeatureCove CoveNotchy
PriceFree + $5 Pro (once)Free
Now Playing, timers, calendar, HUDs
File shelf with AirDrop
Weather
Maps ETA + leave-by reminders
Live flight tracking
Mic & camera in-use indicator
Full image editor + markup
Curves / HSL photo adjustments
Video → HEVC / GIF / audio
LaTeX Grab (screen/PDF → LaTeX)
Diagram Grab (PDF → vector SVG)
On-device dictation into any app
Clipboard history
AI usage limits (Claude Code, Codex…)
Native Rust core for heavy lifting

Based on each app's published feature list, October 2026.

Cove vs NotchNookNotchNook: $25 one-time
Cove vs AlcoveAlcove: $17 one-time
Cove vs SeamSeam: $29 one-time
Cove vs DynamicLakeDynamicLake: Subscription · recurring
Cove vs Boring NotchBoring Notch: Free · open source
Pricing

Simple, honest, once.

No subscriptions, no trials that run out, no surprise price rises. Ever.

Cove

Everything you need in the notch.

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  • Live activities: music, timers, calendar, battery, AirPods
  • Volume & brightness HUD
  • Mic/camera indicator & download progress
  • Weather, Maps ETA, to-dos, notes, Quick Launch
  • File shelf with AirDrop & Quick Look
  • Area capture, image editor & markup
  • On-device dictation & translation
Download free

Cove Pro

Best value

The full toolbox. Pay once, keep it forever.

$5USD · one-time

Price locked. Includes all future updates.

  • Everything in Free
  • LaTeX Grab, Diagram Grab & Text Grab
  • Photo Adjustments: curves, HSL, white balance
  • File & video pipelines (Rust)
  • Clipboard History with fuzzy search
  • Live Flights, AI Usage, Focus Sessions
  • Floating Lyrics, System Monitor, Mirror
  • Color Picker Pro, Quick Calc, Custom Accents
Get Cove Pro · $5

One license = one Mac, for life. Secure checkout by Stripe.

Multi-Mac

Coming soon

For people with a desk Mac and a laptop, or a whole team.

Discounted packs

  • Several Macs on one purchase
  • Move seats when you upgrade
  • Team invoicing
Tell me when it's ready
HyFabricAlso from Kimlabs

HyFabric, built into Cove.

A high-performance network fabric with a native Rust client. Pick a location, connect from the notch and watch live throughput and latency. The widget is free in Cove; plans are on hyfabric.net.

Explore HyFabric
  • QUIC transportFast connections, quick reconnects
  • Verified edge nodesNode attestation before traffic flows
  • Choose your locationSwitch from the Cove widget
Roadmap

Buy once, keep getting more.

Pro includes every future update. Here's what we're building next.

Up next

Command Palette

Press a hotkey anywhere and type to jump to any widget, start a timer, run a Shortcut or open a tool.

Up nextPro

Multi-Mac licenses

Discounted packs for people with more than one Mac, and seat transfers when you upgrade.

Planned

Localisation

Cove in Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese to start.

PlannedPro

Teleprompter

Scroll your script right under the camera so you keep eye contact on calls.

Up nextPro

Per-app Volume Mixer

Turn one app down, mute it, or overdrive up to 150% without touching the system volume.

Full roadmap
FAQ

Questions, answered.

Cove is a native macOS app that turns your MacBook notch into a Dynamic Island. It shows live activities like music, timers, calendar, battery and downloads, and opens into a panel of widgets, a file shelf, capture and editing tools, and on-device AI. It's built by KIMLABS DEVELOPMENT in Sydney, Australia.

Cove

Make the notch the best part of your Mac.

Download Cove free in seconds. Upgrade to Pro for $5 whenever you're ready.

Download for MacGet Pro · $5 once

macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon (M1 and later)