Pulse turns your MacBook's notch into a Dynamic Island: Be it music, meetings, clipboard, weather, focus timers, devices and live system stats, one glance up.
Pulse turns the dead space around your MacBook's notch into a Dynamic Island. Hover it to open, scroll sideways to switch cards.
📋 A clipboard that knows what you copied - Copy #FF5733 → you get the swatch. - Copy a screenshot → a thumbnail. - Copy a link → the host, not 200 characters of UTM. - Filter by Links / Colors / Images / Code.
🎵 Music from anything Spotify, Apple Music, and any browser tab: YouTube, YT Music, SoundCloud with artwork and scrubbing.
📅 Meetings A countdown in the notch that pulls the Zoom/Meet/Teams link, so joining is one click.
🌤️ Weather, Connected devices, CPU, RAM, network Everything you currently Cmd-Tab or open Control Center for.
The detail I care most about is invisible: the window never animates. It's a fixed transparent panel and SwiftUI springs the island inside it; animating an NSWindow frame can't hold 120fps, animating a view layer can.
It's Native Swift, no Electron. No account, no telemetry. Clipboard history stays in RAM and never touches disk.
Free until 28th July 2026.
One heads-up: Pulse isn't notarized with Apple yet, so macOS will ask you to approve it once on first launch
What would you want your notch to show? A downloads shelf is next on my list.
About Pulse Island on Product Hunt
“A living island for your Mac's notch”
Pulse Island launched on Product Hunt on July 26th, 2026 and earned 108 upvotes and 21 comments, placing #9 on the daily leaderboard. Pulse turns your MacBook's notch into a Dynamic Island: Be it music, meetings, clipboard, weather, focus timers, devices and live system stats, one glance up.
On the analytics side, Pulse Island competes within Mac, Productivity and Apple — topics that collectively have 776k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Pulse Island performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Pulse Island?
Pulse Island was hunted by Aayush Talreja. 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 Pulse Island including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Aayush Talreja
Hey Product Hunt,
Pulse turns the dead space around your MacBook's notch into a Dynamic Island.
Hover it to open, scroll sideways to switch cards.
📋 A clipboard that knows what you copied
- Copy #FF5733 → you get the swatch.
- Copy a screenshot → a thumbnail.
- Copy a link → the host, not 200 characters of UTM.
- Filter by Links / Colors / Images / Code.
🎵 Music from anything
Spotify, Apple Music, and any browser tab: YouTube, YT Music, SoundCloud with artwork and scrubbing.
📅 Meetings
A countdown in the notch that pulls the Zoom/Meet/Teams link, so joining is one click.
🌤️ Weather, Connected devices, CPU, RAM, network
Everything you currently Cmd-Tab or open Control Center for.
The detail I care most about is invisible: the window never animates. It's a fixed transparent panel and SwiftUI springs the island inside it; animating an NSWindow frame can't hold 120fps, animating a view layer can.
It's Native Swift, no Electron. No account, no telemetry. Clipboard history stays in RAM and never touches disk.
Free until 28th July 2026.
One heads-up: Pulse isn't notarized with Apple yet, so macOS will ask you to approve it once on first launch
What would you want your notch to show? A downloads shelf is next on my list.