Launching today
Notchy
Mac dynamic island with music, timers, clipboard, file drops
87 followers
Mac dynamic island with music, timers, clipboard, file drops
87 followers
Notchy is the free, native macOS notch app that turns your MacBook notch into a fluid Dynamic Island — music, timers, clipboard, file drops, cluely, HUDs.
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how you're handling the performance side. notch apps that run constantly have a bad reputation for quietly draining battery on MacBooks, especially on M-series chips where people are very sensitive to anything that tanks their all-day runtime. have you done any benchmarking on idle CPU and battery impact because that's usually the reason people uninstall these after a week regardless of how useful the features are
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@ansari_adin
Yes, we did benchmarking with our app, and it is quite efficient!
Setup: Apple M2, macOS 26.5, May 2026. Each app run alone, no input, CPU summed across processes, averaged over several 10-second idle windows.
Idle CPU results:
App
Idle CPU
Type
Notchy 1.0.14
~0%
native SwiftUI
Check out the comparison table at:
https://notchy.dev/#:~:text=BATTERY%20%26%20PERFORMANCE
Hi Vishva! four things fighting for the same tiny strip! when a timer's running and you copy something and a download finishes all at once, what wins the notch? hard priority order, most-recent, or does it stack and rotate? congrats on your launch, good luck!
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@hiyamojo
Hey! Good question - it's the thing that actually trips up most notch apps.
Two layers. The timer stays - it holds the notch until it's done, nothing bumps it (and it'll share space with music side by side).
Copy and download-finished are quick pop-ins, and there's only one slot for those: newest wins. So the download would just take over the copy, no stacking or rotating. Once it fades, you're back to the timer.
Only catch: since it's purely "newest wins," there's no priority — a trivial alert can cut in front of an important one. But the timer itself never gets lost.
@vishvavariya cheers Vishva!
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Does Notchy have any battery or performance impact when it’s running all day?
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@othman_katim That's a good question, yes -- we did a benchmarking across few similar apps and ours is one of the efficient apps out there.
Check the results at: https://notchy.dev/#:~:text=BATTERY%20%26%20PERFORMANCE
That looks really good.
I think you should let users add their own tabs.
Another suggestion is to add any LLM tab
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@jay_gangwar good thoughts! I'd love to learn more about the idea you have. Lets connect offline at https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishvavariya/
@vishvavariya Followed from my side. I am not active on LinkedIn much.
Are you on X
https://x.com/dev_jay07
Sorry this is my fresh account
@vishvavariya is this free if not what is the pricing
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@jay_gangwar followed you on X too 👋
Notchy is completely free - always. I don’t plan to monetize it ever.
But if you find it useful, donations (https://ko-fi.com/vishvavariya) are always appreciated and help keep these free tools alive ❤️
Stripo.email
This looks surprisingly polished for a free tool. Wishing you a successful launch day and lots of happy Mac users!
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@marianna_tymchuk Thanks a lot! Really appreciate it 🙌
More polishing and improvements will be added over time as needed in a thoughtful way.