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Islet

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iPhone's Dynamic Island, brought to your Mac's notch

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iPhone's Dynamic Island, brought to your Mac's notch

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Most notch utilities just draw a static shape over the cutout. Islet actually behaves like iPhone's Dynamic Island: native spring-physics expand/collapse, real-time HUDs for volume and brightness, a live music glance with full playback controls, one-tap audio output switching (no System Settings detour), plus calendar, weather, and a file tray you can drop into from anywhere. Built natively in Swift + AppKit, not Electron, fast and fullscreen-aware.

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Launch tags:Mac•Productivity•Menu Bar Apps

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Lippi, solo dev. The notch on newer MacBooks just sits there as dead space — meanwhile iPhone turned the same cutout into something actually useful with Dynamic Island. So I built that for Mac. The concept was the easy part. Getting the spring-physics expand/collapse to feel native — not janky — took a lot of manual trial-and-error, way more hands-on debugging than "just prompt an AI and ship it." 3-day free trial, one-time $5.99 (launch price, code LAUNCH). Would love feedback, especially from anyone running a Mac with a notch daily.

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3d ago

these notch utilities always make me nervous about the next macOS point release. Apple's changed how the notch/camera housing area behaves at the API level before without much warning. is this drawing into a stable public area (menu bar extra, NSStatusItem territory) or is it doing something closer to overlaying private window layers that could just break on the next update?

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