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smack

A Pro-user dashboard that lives in your Mac's notch

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Smack lives in the notch and menu bar. Hover to see CPU, memory, network, disk and every process, then act on it: disable startup items, inspect processes and connections, investigate IPs, check disk space. Native, no dependencies, no data leaves your Mac. Free and open source. Brew install: brew install --cask alvagante/tap/smack

PH · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views

Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Analytics & BI
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Open Source
  • GitHub
  • Menu Bar Apps

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Could you build this?

Yes A macOS menu bar system monitor uses public system APIs for CPU, memory, network, and process data, which AI coding tools can write in SwiftUI/AppKit.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 586 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #409 of 587 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 295 days after the earliest competitor.

  • tinyStats · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Blipbar · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • Mom · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • Enclave · ph · 2026-10-29 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • NotchBuddy · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Netra · ph · 2026-10-05 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Kleanly · ph · 2026-09-26 · 109 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Knock · ph · 2026-03-16 · 168 upvotes · similarity 0.49

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