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Dots

A customizable workspace built into your Mac's notch

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Meet Dots, a customizable workspace built into your Mac's notch. Most notch apps focus on music and notifications. Dots goes further by helping you access your favorite apps, websites, and shortcuts without constantly switching windows. Watch videos while working, take scrolling screenshots, use voice commands, and more. Whether you're studying, coding, or creating, Dots adapts to your workflow. Free to get started. No subscriptions.

PH · launched Oct 23, 2026 · 83 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views

Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Menu Bar Apps
  • Apple

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Could you build this?

Yes A customizable macOS notch panel is a native Swift app using standard window and AppKit APIs, with features like shortcuts and screenshots built from known system frameworks.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 447 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #26 of 448 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Halo · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.70
  • NotchOwl · ph · 2026-09-19 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • NotchLedge · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Notch Plus · ph · 2026-09-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • Notch Buddy · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • iLand · ph · 2026-10-05 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Perch · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Netra · ph · 2026-10-05 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.56

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