Hoy puts your people in your Mac's menu bar, on top of everything you do. Drop a file on a face. Hold to talk, and Hoy writes it down as you speak. Show your screen. Hand over a to-do. Every face is a channel, with one person or a group, and a link is all it takes to bring someone in. No sign-up, no middleman: your channels live in your own iCloud and there is no Hoy server. Free, with a pay-once Pro. Needs macOS 26. iPhone and iPad are coming soon.
Designer, builder, chronic prototyper. Some of you might know my other app Monocle from here.
Today it’s Hoy 1.0 for Mac.
Imagine this: drag a file onto a face. That’s it. If that made you smile, you’ll get Hoy.
Or hold the face to talk to them. Easy, right? Almost like a walkie-talkie.
Hoy started from a small annoyance: sending a screen recording, a voice note or a file to one person. AirDrop needs you both in the same room at the same time. Everything else means opening another app, maybe finding the right channel, waiting on the upload of a screen recording you recorded earlier, looking it up first… and, importantly, making an account first. So I made Hoy: a face in your menu bar for each of your people. Drop something on a face, and it reaches that person whether they’re next door or across the world, awake or asleep.
You can drop files, notes, voice notes with transcript, screen recordings with a floating avatar cam and even to-do lists.
And I wanted it to feel good!
Oh! And it’s private by design. Just iCloud.
No sign-up, no account, no Hoy server. Hoy runs on CloudKit, the same way Apple syncs and shares your Photos and Notes. You host a channel and it lives in your iCloud. Share the invite link with one person and it’s a 1-on-1. Share it with more and it’s a group.
(It’s Apple-only. On purpose. If your people aren’t on Apple devices, Hoy isn’t for you.)
I also made channels tidy themselves. As a host, you pick how long drops stick around: 1 day, 3 days, 1 week (default) or 1 month, so old files don’t fill up your iCloud. Want to hold on to something? Mark it Keep.
It’s early, and that’s the fun part. I use it every day with my people and I know the concept is strong, but it’s young and it will evolve a lot. iPhone and iPad are coming, on TestFlight from Nov 16.
I’m still learning what people reach for most. So, please, tell me: who would be the first three faces in your menu bar? And what’s missing or feels off once they’re there? Here, or hello@gethoy.app.
Hoy for Mac launched on Product Hunt on November 12th, 2026 and earned 0 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Hoy puts your people in your Mac's menu bar, on top of everything you do. Drop a file on a face. Hold to talk, and Hoy writes it down as you speak. Show your screen. Hand over a to-do. Every face is a channel, with one person or a group, and a link is all it takes to bring someone in. No sign-up, no middleman: your channels live in your own iCloud and there is no Hoy server. Free, with a pay-once Pro. Needs macOS 26. iPhone and iPad are coming soon.
On the analytics side, Hoy for Mac competes within Productivity, Messaging and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 729.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Hoy for Mac performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Hoy for Mac?
Hoy for Mac was hunted by Dominik Kandravý. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Hoy for Mac including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Dominik Kandravý
Hoy there! I’m Dominik.
Designer, builder, chronic prototyper. Some of you might know my other app Monocle from here.
Today it’s Hoy 1.0 for Mac.
Imagine this: drag a file onto a face. That’s it. If that made you smile, you’ll get Hoy.
Or hold the face to talk to them. Easy, right? Almost like a walkie-talkie.
Hoy started from a small annoyance: sending a screen recording, a voice note or a file to one person. AirDrop needs you both in the same room at the same time. Everything else means opening another app, maybe finding the right channel, waiting on the upload of a screen recording you recorded earlier, looking it up first… and, importantly, making an account first. So I made Hoy: a face in your menu bar for each of your people. Drop something on a face, and it reaches that person whether they’re next door or across the world, awake or asleep.
You can drop files, notes, voice notes with transcript, screen recordings with a floating avatar cam and even to-do lists.
And I wanted it to feel good!
Oh! And it’s private by design. Just iCloud.
No sign-up, no account, no Hoy server. Hoy runs on CloudKit, the same way Apple syncs and shares your Photos and Notes. You host a channel and it lives in your iCloud. Share the invite link with one person and it’s a 1-on-1. Share it with more and it’s a group.
(It’s Apple-only. On purpose. If your people aren’t on Apple devices, Hoy isn’t for you.)
I also made channels tidy themselves. As a host, you pick how long drops stick around: 1 day, 3 days, 1 week (default) or 1 month, so old files don’t fill up your iCloud. Want to hold on to something? Mark it Keep.
It’s early, and that’s the fun part. I use it every day with my people and I know the concept is strong, but it’s young and it will evolve a lot. iPhone and iPad are coming, on TestFlight from Nov 16.
I’m still learning what people reach for most. So, please, tell me: who would be the first three faces in your menu bar? And what’s missing or feels off once they’re there? Here, or hello@gethoy.app.
Hoy needs macOS, iOS or iPadOS 26+.
https://gethoy.app/