Glassdrop
Notifications from only the apps you choose, in one orb
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A floating orb above your Dock that gathers notifications from only the apps you drop onto it. Read them when you want; take an app out and it stops. On the Mac App Store as Glassdrop Orb (€2.99), or direct from glassdrop.app: free for a week, then €3 once. macOS 26.
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PH · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
Similar launches
See all 465 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial The floating orb UI is straightforward, but collecting notifications from selected third-party apps on macOS relies on undocumented or restricted system mechanisms that vibe coding cannot reliably navigate.
What it would actually take: A native Swift/AppKit app would need to read notifications, which has no public API, so it likely requires reading the notification database, using accessibility APIs, or private frameworks. Making this work across macOS updates and passing App Store review adds risk. Solving it needs macOS internals expertise and ongoing maintenance.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 465 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #121 of 466 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
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- CircleDuck · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Sippo: Water reminder app for Mac · ph · 2026-10-07 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- PulseTiles · ph · 2026-10-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Andas · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- AppDrop · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- AirFliq · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Dynamic Ring · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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