Launching today
Nocto
Your MacBook notch, finally useful
77 followers
Your MacBook notch, finally useful
77 followers
Nocto turns your MacBook's notch into a small control center. Hover to see what's playing and skip songs. Ten minutes before a call it starts a countdown, and when the meeting begins the notch opens with a Join button (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, FaceTime). Park files on the shelf, find anything you copied in clipboard history, and check your Mac and AirPods battery at a glance. Native, light, macOS 14+. One-time purchase, 7-day free trial. Music stays free forever.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Yersultan, a solo developer from Kazakhstan. The notch is the one part of my MacBook I look at all day, and it did absolutely nothing. Meanwhile I kept joining calls late because the reminder was buried under a dozen windows.
So I built Nocto. It turns the notch into a small control center:
📅 Meetings: a countdown 10 min before each call, then the notch opens with a Join button (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, FaceTime)
🎵 Music: see what's playing, swipe to skip, scroll to seek
📁 Shelf + clipboard: park files on the notch, and get back anything you copied (text, links, colors, screenshots)
🔋 Battery and AirPods at a glance
Fully native, light, macOS 14+. No subscription: one purchase covers 3 Macs, with a 7-day free trial. Music stays free forever.
🎁 PH community: code PRODUCTHUNT takes 30% off this week.
What would you want your notch to show next? I'm building the next update from your answers.
@yersultanss The meeting countdown with a Join button right in the notch is so smart, I'm always the one joining 2 minutes late 😅 Love that it's native and a one-time purchase. Congrats from a fellow maker launching today! 🙌
@yersultanss @erenasiroglu me tooo haha, even tho i have calendar notifications 🤦♂️😄
Congrats on the launch. Sleek design. Any plans to make it extendible and/or open source?
@pronskiy Thanks a lot, glad the design landed! Open source isn't planned for now. Nocto is a one-time purchase, and that's what lets me keep working on it full-time without adding a subscription. Extensibility is something I'm thinking about, though. What would you want to plug into the notch? A specific app, a custom widget, Shortcuts? Real use cases will decide what I build first.
can i change the 10 min countdown?
Just tried it - i have a messy desktop - so really like the 'drag to shelf' option for quick access.
The shelf plus clipboard combo is the part that grabbed me — I like that you can park a file on the notch and also pull back text, links, colors, and screenshots you copied. How do those two stay separate in practice? If I park something and then keep copying, does the parked item stay put, or does it get pushed out by newer clipboard items? And for back-to-back calls, does the Join button switch cleanly to the next meeting?