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NOTCHCAFE / CHANGELOG

What’s new at the café.

Every NotchCafe release, newest first. NotchCafe updates itself from Settings or the menu bar with Check for Updates. Your notes, preferences, and license carry over. Installers and checksums are on GitHub.

NotchCafe 1.4.21

  • Daily focus cups track your completed sessions for the day.
  • Choose a daily goal of 1–6 cups in Focus timer settings.
  • A companion brings you a coffee bean when you complete a focus session.

NotchCafe 1.4.20

  • Pets can climb the furniture and ledges painted into LoFi scenes.
  • Rare scene moments: lightning, shooting stars, and passing birds.
  • Improved rain overlay behavior across settings, animation preferences, and screenshots.

NotchCafe 1.4.19

  • LoFi controls redesigned as a hi-fi console, with inline menus and a combined scene readout.
  • Cafe Window, Cassette Deck, and Radio Dial now use painted artwork with gentle animations.
  • A compact dot strip shows the current musical key and chord progression.

NotchCafe 1.4.18

  • Settings redesigned with a native sidebar, grouped pages, and shorter descriptions.
  • All companions in one list, each with its own count and switch.

NotchCafe 1.4.17

  • Match the LoFi studio to your local weather with an optional toggle.
  • The LoFi Rain effect now shows rain on the desktop and in the notch, like Rainy Mood.
  • The chord board and key stay on the chord that’s actually playing.
  • Companions lie down before dozing and wake before walking on.
  • A tidier Notch tab when no events are upcoming or no track is loaded.

NotchCafe 1.4.16

  • Independent rain, thunder, jungle, and fire effects in the LoFi studio.
  • Companions stagger their nighttime naps.
  • Desktop rain hides while macOS screenshot tools are open, so window capture reaches the app underneath.

NotchCafe 1.4.15

  • Curious poses for companions, plus short roaming pounces for Miso and Biscuit.
  • Rainy Mood keeps animating during screenshots, while window capture skips the rain.
  • Unused rain windows close when playback stops or motion is turned off.

NotchCafe 1.4.14

  • Better LoFi and playback control sizing in Full Screen Mode.
  • Full-screen content stays above the menu bar while focused.
  • Media progress updates pause while nothing is playing.

NotchCafe 1.4.13

  • The expanded notch keeps the same width across Notch, LoFi, Shelf, and Notes.
  • Fixed clipped player controls, lyrics, footer text, and companions.
  • Taller café content scrolls inside the panel.

NotchCafe 1.4.12

  • New: an offline LoFi studio with six animated scenes: Midnight, Coast, Forest, Snow Cabin, Rainy Library, and Lantern Garden.
  • Music, Atmosphere, World, and Manual modes, with layer mixing, key, tempo, and volume.
  • A large 16:9 LoFi card in Full Screen Mode.

NotchCafe 1.4.11

  • New: the Focus Garden, with flowers and pots to unlock.
  • Meet Lottie the sheep.
  • Lyrics for supported tracks, and café controls beside the full-screen YouTube player.
  • Improved pet affection, occasional gifts, notes, and file shelf controls.

NotchCafe 1.4.10

  • Smoother companion animations in raincoats and while drying off.
  • Pets finish drying before switching from Rainy bookshop to Midnight café.

NotchCafe 1.4.9

  • Press Play on the idle music player to start the café soundtrack on YouTube.
  • Open the café soundtrack anytime from the player menu.

NotchCafe 1.4.8

  • Adjust companion size in Settings → Pets.
  • A new minimalist café app icon.

NotchCafe 1.4.7

  • Raincoats for every companion, with an animated wet-to-dry transition.
  • Calendar content respects your calendar settings before expanding the panel.

NotchCafe 1.4.6

  • Calendar cards move to the next event as meetings end, with Join links for later events.
  • A new Settings → Permissions page brings every permission together.
  • Randomized rain splatter sounds in Rainy Mood.
  • Companions perch on visible controls without blocking them.

NotchCafe 1.4.5

  • New: cozy scenes pair ambient sound, lighting, and companion moods.
  • Rain falls inside the notch and splashes on the cards.
  • Raincoats, toys, and weather reactions for companions.
  • Improved YouTube detection.

NotchCafe 1.4.4

  • A DMG installer for manual installation.
  • A more balanced collapsed Live Activities layout around the camera.

NotchCafe 1.4.3

  • Synchronized steam rising from both coffee cups.
  • Double-click a Shelf file to open it.

NotchCafe 1.4.2

  • New: Do Not Sleep, toggled from the coffee cup.
  • A quieter, richer rain ambience.

NotchCafe 1.4.1

  • Check for Updates, with verified in-app installation.
  • Improved calendar banner and focus controls.

NotchCafe 1.4

  • New: Miso and Biscuit, the first companions.
  • Optional local weather, with Rainy Mood that can start automatically when it rains.
  • Original bundled rain ambience and visual rain.

NotchCafe 1.3

  • Focus sessions survive app restarts.
  • Optional launch at login.
  • Multiple named notes with pinning and search.

NotchCafe 1.2

  • Maintenance release.

NotchCafe 1.1

  • Setup guidance for Calendar and music permissions at launch.

NotchCafe 1.0

  • The first public release: music, focus, file shelf, notes, calendar countdowns, and Live Activities in your notch.

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