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Notchling
A little creature that lives in your MacBook notch
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A little creature that lives in your MacBook notch
163 followers
Notchling is a tiny creature living in your MacBook notch. It watches your cursor, dozes off when you idle, feels your battery, and when you drag a file at it, it opens its mouth and carries it for you. Free, under a megabyte, and nothing leaves your Mac.
Dial
this is a really charming idea, most notch apps feel like they're competing for the same real estate you're trying to ignore. curious about the case where there's no notch to live in - external monitor only, lid closed. does the creature just not exist at all in that setup, or does it try to find a home somewhere else on the external display?
Notchling
@galdayan It exists, and it goes with you.
It looks for a screen with a real notch first. If there is not one, it draws itself a faux notch at the top centre of your main display, same 185 by 32 as the hardware one, so it lives in the same place your eye already expects rather than parking awkwardly in a corner.
Closing the lid is handled properly rather than by accident. macOS fires a screen-parameters change on undock, lid close, and resolution changes, and it re-places itself on the new display when that happens. That was the single biggest bug in the app before launch, so it is also the one thing I tested hardest.
The honest trade: on an external there is no physical black bezel to hide in, so it reads as a small dark tab at the top rather than disappearing into hardware. Some people like that more, some less. Hide is there either way.
Okay, this might be the cutest thing I’ve seen on Product Hunt today 😂 A little creature in the notch that actually reacts to what I’m doing? Love this.
Notchling
@riya_mittal4 Thank you! The reacting is most of the work.
It tracks your cursor, dozes off
when you go quiet, and its cheeks flush when you plug in.
The one people find by accident: start a call and it shuts its eyes. It never
asks for camera permission, it only reads the in-use flag, so it genuinely
cannot see anything.
That felt like the politest way to prove it.
Also try startling it. Throw the cursor at the notch fast.