Who makes this
Updated 20 September 2026.
I make Dynamic Notch on my own, in Bologna. There is no company behind it and no support desk: the address at the bottom of this page reaches me, and whoever answers is the same person who wrote the code.
This page exists for a practical reason. There are a number of apps with similar names, and anyone arriving here from a search deserves to know who they are dealing with. Everything below you can check yourself, without taking my word for it.
Apple’s signature, which is not a self-declaration
Dynamic Notch is signed with a Developer ID in my name and notarized by Apple. That is not something I typed onto a website: it is an identity Apple verified, and you can read it off the file you downloaded. Open Terminal and paste:
spctl -a -vvv "/Applications/Dynamic Notch V2.0.app"The answer is this, and it has my name in it:
accepted
source=Notarized Developer ID
origin=Developer ID Application: Biagio Bentivenga (TTZX7TWRCM)It works on any signed app, so you can use it to check the others too.
A history with dates on it
Version 2.0 is from April 2026, 2.5 from September 2026: eight releases in five months, each with a note saying what changed and why. It is all in the changelog, including the times I fixed something I had got wrong.
The 2.0 launch on Product Hunt is public and dated, with 68 upvotes. That is not a huge number — but it is verifiable, which is the point of this page.
Three things a website cannot invent
The best way to tell who is behind an app is not to read its feature list: it is to read the problems it had to solve. These three cost weeks, and each one has a measured number behind it.
Clipboard history that refuses passwords. macOS marks some copies as concealed and others not at all: a password copied from a saved entry arrives with no marker whatsoever. I measured it with two separate processes, one writing marked copies and one reading: seven leaks in four hundred. No type-based filter can catch those seven, because the information does not exist. That is why the history also refuses anything copied while a password manager is the frontmost app.
Now Playing after Apple shut the door. In macOS 15.4 Apple put the interface that reports what is playing behind a permission: the call succeeds and answers with an empty dictionary. Measured on 10 September 2026. Dynamic Notch no longer calls it — it starts a system process that does hold the permission and has it relay the data back, once per session rather than per reading, because each launch costs 155 ms.
Detecting full screen when no signal says so. This was needed so a card never sits on top of a film. I sampled every public indicator while a browser entered and left full screen: they are all identical in both states. The only thing that changes is the type of the active space as read from SkyLight, 0 against 4.
Apps with similar names
They exist, and this is not an accusation against anyone: “dynamic” and “notch” are two ordinary words and the category is crowded. There is an open source project on GitHub with the same name, GPL licensed, written by someone else. And there are other sites at addresses close to this one.
I am not saying they are copies or that they are worse: some are good, and in my
comparison pages I write plainly about where they win. I am
only saying how to recognise mine: it is the one signed
Biagio Bentivenga (TTZX7TWRCM), with this changelog and this email address.
Write to me
[email protected] — for a problem, a refund, a missing feature, or to tell me a module is pointless. You get me, not a form.