ILoveNotch
Free, open-source notch app for MacBooks: now playing, file shelf, calendar, Reminders, notes, shortcuts, timers, camera mirror, and your Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Copilot usage. Native SwiftUI, near-zero idle CPU.
Details
- External ID
- 1384787308
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- ILoveNotch
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Sept. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.14514476044068664
- Tags
- ai-usage, appkit, claude, codex, dynamic-island, macbook, macbook-notch, macos, macos-app, menubar, notch, notch-app, notchnook-alternative, now-playing, open-source, productivity, swift, swiftui
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS notch and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macbook notch utility with widgets and ai usage tracking
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a full macOS utility integrating with native APIs (EventKit, MediaRemote, CoreMedia, camera, notch windowing, and zero-idle performance budgets) requires non-trivial native Swift/AppKit expertise beyond typical vibe coding.
What it would actually take: Requires Swift, SwiftUI, and AppKit with specialized window level and screen edge anchoring techniques to position beneath the MacBook notch. Integrations include private MediaRemote framework or MPRemoteCommandCenter, EventKit for calendar/reminders, and AVFoundation. Fine-tuning for 0% idle CPU and battery optimization requires native macOS profiling and low-level event-driven architecture.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 189 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #174 of 190 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 299 days after the earliest competitor.
- OmniNotch · ph · 2026-09-25 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- NotchPop · ph · 2026-09-24 · 108 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- MacNotch · ph · 2026-03-26 · 198 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Notch Plus · ph · 2026-09-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Notchmeter · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Macinotch · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- NotchOwl · ph · 2026-09-19 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- island · github · 2026-09-29 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a workflow automation tool for Real estate yet.