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Notch and desktop widgets

Your email, right in the notch.

New mail grows out of your MacBook's notch the moment it lands. Read who it's from, reply, open a link or mark it read, and get back to what you were doing. No window to switch to.

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New mail in the notch, with the widgets on the desktop
01

Mail, codes and sends, right where you look

New mail slides out of the notch with the sender and subject. A sign-in code shows big with a Copy button, and when you send, a paper plane with Undo shows it on its way.

Mail, codes and sends, right where you look
02

Know the moment it's read

Turn on read receipts and the notch tells you who just opened what you sent, while you keep working in the window you're in.

Know the moment it's read
03

Your inbox on the desktop

Three widget sizes: your unread count, every account at a glance, or the newest mail with sender and subject. Click a row to open that conversation.

Your inbox on the desktop
The details

Everything notch and widgets does

Mail that comes to you A new message slides out of the notch with the sender, subject and the first lines, then tucks itself away.
Reply from the notch Write a quick answer right there. It goes out from the right account, with your signature.
Open links, mark read Links in the message are one click away, and Mark as Read clears it without opening bytemail.
Codes and receipts too Sign-in codes show with a Copy button, and a read receipt shows when someone opens what you sent.
Desktop widgets Small, medium and large widgets show your newest mail on the desktop, readable on any wallpaper. Click one to open it.
Yours to switch off Turn the notch off in Settings › Notch. On a Mac without a notch, notifications and widgets do the job.
Questions

Notch and widgets: common questions

Which Macs does the notch work on?

MacBooks with a notch in the screen. On other Macs, bytemail uses macOS notifications and the desktop widgets instead.

Does it cover the menu bar?

Only for a moment, while new mail shows. Then the notch goes back to normal.

Do the widgets update by themselves?

Yes. They follow your inbox as mail arrives, and stay current while bytemail runs.

More in bytemail
AI assistant Summaries, drafts, Rewrite and translation, with Apple Intelligence, ChatGPT, Claude or a local model. Read receipts See when what you sent was opened, without the false alarms from Apple's privacy proxy. Keyboard shortcuts Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail or Superhuman keys, or your own.

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