Isly
Your MacBook notch, brought to life.
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Details
- External ID
- 1272046
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Isly
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 60
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.96
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity
Description
Isly turns the MacBook notch into a living control center: music from any app with cover art and scrubber, live timers and calendar events, clean volume/brightness readouts, and more - all without leaving your workflow. Light on resources (≈0.2% CPU idle, ~49 MB RAM), smooth animations, and a one-time €3.99 license with free updates. For macOS 14+ with a notch.
Enrichment
- Niche
- MacBook notch utilities and widgets
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- notch customizer for macbook users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A macOS menu bar/notch utility requires native Swift/AppKit development, low-level macOS system APIs for media/hardware controls, and precise window-layering around the hardware notch.
What it would actually take: Built with Swift, AppKit/SwiftUI, and private/public macOS APIs (MediaRemote framework for system audio control, IOKit/DisplayServices for screen/brightness). The hard part is managing notch window positioning across multi-monitor setups and reverse-engineering undocumented macOS media events while maintaining sub-0.2% CPU usage.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 188 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 189 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- NotchIsland · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- NotchMind · ph · 2026-10-01 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Mom · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Kishi Notch · ph · 2026-10-06 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- NotchPop · ph · 2026-09-24 · 108 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- iLand · ph · 2026-10-05 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Notch Design · ph · 2026-09-18 · 65 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Peninsula - Your macbook notch remade · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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