Hand Mirror makes the best use of Apple’s MacBook notch that I’ve seen


We’ve covered Hand Mirror before. It’s a simple, free Mac utility that lives in your menu bar. Whenever you click it, you see a small preview of your selfie camera. If you’re prepping for a video call with colleagues or just want to check how disheveled you appear to other coffee shop goers at 8AM, it’s a perfect little tool.
Hand Mirror’s developer Rafael Conde recently introduced a paid add-on to the app that unlocks some bonus features. (The main video preview feature is still completely free and works as well as ever.) One of those new tricks — called “notch trigger” — caught my eye. When enabled, Hand Mirror will bring up the selfie camera preview whenever you click behind the notch area on Apple’s MacBook Pro and M2 MacBook Air. In this mode, you can also hide the menu bar icon to free up space over there.
This alone convinced me to spend the one-time $4.99 fee on Hand Mirror Plus. Sometimes I forget about the app altogether when it’s in the menu bar alongside a ton of other icons. But relocating it behind the notch (where the camera is) seems like a much better way of remembering that I can always check my webcam view with a quick, single click.
Other Hand Mirror Plus perks include the ability to move the preview window somewhere else onscreen, switch up its appearance, pick a different app icon, and more.
We’ve covered Hand Mirror before. It’s a simple, free Mac utility that lives in your menu bar. Whenever you click it, you see a small preview of your selfie camera. If you’re prepping for a video call with colleagues or just want to check how disheveled you appear to other…
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