NotchIsland
Turn your MacBook's notch into a smart productivity hub
Details
- External ID
- 1248226
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- NotchIsland
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Apple
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Description
NotchIsland transforms your MacBook's notch into a live dashboard. Music, weather, timers, clipboard, drag-and-drop shelf, and more — in one shallow band that never covers your work. $6.99 one-time, no subscription.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS notch and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- notch-based productivity widget for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While basic native menu bar apps are simple, hooking into macOS notch geometry, non-activating floating overlays, smooth animations, and system event interceptors requires deep Swift and AppKit expertise.
What it would actually take: A production version requires a native macOS app in Swift using AppKit/SwiftUI that interacts with undocumented or low-level window management APIs (e.g., `NSWindow` level handling, `NSScreen.auxiliaryTopLeftArea` / notch metrics, and non-activating panel flags). It needs tight event listeners for mouse hovering near the hardware notch without stealing focus from active fullscreen or tiled apps, plus custom physics-based spring animations and system integrations (MediaRemote framework for music, clipboard listeners). Debugging multi-display edge cases and Apple's strict notch containment rules requires specialized macOS systems engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 97 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 98 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 251 days after the earliest competitor.
- NotchPop · ph · 2026-09-24 · 108 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- MacNotch · ph · 2026-03-26 · 198 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- OmniNotch · ph · 2026-09-25 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Peninsula - Your macbook notch remade · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Nibbii · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- island · github · 2026-09-29 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Notch Plus · ph · 2026-09-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Notch Buddy · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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