I wrote this because like others, I found the "notch" on newer iPhones and MacBooks distracting - particularly when using a second display as a primary monitor (when there's no menu bar to balance out the unusable space at the top of the screen).
I realized that by creating a tinted bar the same height as the notch across the top of a background image, I could significantly diminish the distraction factor of the notch. Someone had written an app that did something like this, but I wasn't interested in keeping some piece of third party software running all the time just to achieve this.
Enter: notchbegone.com. By writing a tool to auto-generate background images with my desired top bar overlay, I could easily subdue the notch without any added overhead to my system.
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I wrote this because like others, I found the "notch" on newer iPhones and MacBooks distracting - particularly when using a second display as a primary monitor (when there's no menu bar to balance out the unusable space at the top of the screen).
I realized that by creating a tinted bar the same height as the notch across the top of a background image, I could significantly diminish the distraction factor of the notch. Someone had written an app that did something like this, but I wasn't interested in keeping some piece of third party software running all the time just to achieve this.
Enter: notchbegone.com. By writing a tool to auto-generate background images with my desired top bar overlay, I could easily subdue the notch without any added overhead to my system.
Tool: https://notchbegone.com
Source: https://github.com/alexdredmon/notchbegone