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Notchmeter

AI usage rings in your Mac's notch, with the math shown

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Rings beside the MacBook notch for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot: used share, pace tick, run-out projection, reset time, cost from local transcripts, and an Advice strip that says what to do next. Free, MIT, never signs in.

PH · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 1 view

Niche: desktop and display utilities · 171 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Observability & eval
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Developer Tools
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a native macOS Swift/SwiftUI utility that reads local SQLite databases, JSON log files, and CLI transcripts left by coding assistants to calculate burn rates and display notch overlays.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 289 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #142 of 290 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 217 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Notch Crew · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Notch Plus · ph · 2026-09-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Drop Notch · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Burrow for Mac · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Nova · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • Glance · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • Isle Notch · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • ILoveNotch · github · 2026-09-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.53

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