Otifier

Auto-copy verification codes from macOS notifications to your clipboard.

Stop squinting at your phone to type the six-digit code your bank just texted you. Otifier lives in your menu bar, watches macOS notification banners as they appear, and copies any verification code straight to your clipboard — ready to paste.

It works with anything that surfaces as a macOS banner: mirrored iPhone SMS, email previews, app push notifications, etc.

Demo

Features

• 100% local — no network calls, no telemetry, codes never leave your Mac
• Just works — no setup beyond granting Accessibility permission once
• Universal — any macOS notification banner, including mirrored iPhone texts
• History — recent codes in the menu bar; click any one to re-copy

Install

Download the latest DMG, drag Otifier to Applications, launch, and grant Accessibility permission when prompted.

Download: latest release

To launch on login, add Otifier to Login Items in System Settings — or use the toggle in Otifier's menu.

Or build from source

Requires macOS 13+ on Apple Silicon and Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install).

make app
open .build/Otifier.app

How it works

iPhone notification → mirrored to Mac → notification banner
    → AX tree poll (1.5s) → verification code match → clipboard

Otifier polls the Notification Center's Accessibility tree every 1.5 seconds. When a banner contains a verification code, it copies the code and shows a small confirmation notification.

Detection rules

OTPs are matched via regex with keyword gating to avoid false positives:

• Patterns: code: 123456, OTP: 1234, G-583920, bare 4–8 digit codes
• Keywords: verification, code, OTP, one-time, 2FA, sign in, 验证码, …
• Filtering: rejects repeated digits (1111), order/tracking numbers, codes shorter than 4 digits

Privacy

Otifier reads notification banners locally via the Accessibility API and writes to your clipboard. That's it.

• No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting
• No network calls except for checking app updates at otifier.com
• Verification codes are never sent anywhere

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome.

make test          # run the test suite
make otifier       # build a CLI version (prints detected codes to stdout)
make ax-explorer   # diagnostic tool to dump the AX tree of notification banners

The CLI and AX explorer are handy when debugging why a particular notification isn't being captured — run ax-explorer --watch 30 while a banner is on screen to inspect its Accessibility structure.

License

MIT.

Acknowledgements

Otifier embeds Sparkle for in-app updates, © Andy Matuschak and the Sparkle Project, distributed under the MIT License.