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.
The clipboard card is the clever bit for me. Showing a color swatch, image thumbnail, or cleaned host instead of raw clipboard text makes the notch feel genuinely useful.
the unnotarized heads up is honest of you to call out upfront, but it's also exactly the kind of prompt that scares off non-technical users, especially for something polling the clipboard continuously in the background. is notarizing it on the roadmap, or is that waiting until after the free period ends on the 28th?
Great launch, what're advantages so that I have to switch from others? I'm using boringnotch
Great launch! Do you guys filter on content? Or is the ConcealedType check the only line? Could it be that a fair number of copies that shouldn't be in history still slip through the 2Hz poll?
Congratulations on your launch, @aayu5hgit ! I really like the copy history functionality. On macOS, there's usually no built-in way to keep the last n copied items, so this is a really useful feature.
The UI looks great, and I like the way everything is categorised as well.
One suggestion: is there a way to customise the view? For example, it would be nice if users could choose which tabs to show or hide, or configure how many tabs are displayed in the notch.
Congrats on the launch, @aayu5hgit! I really like how you handle clipboard categorization. Do you plan to add a Pomodoro timer feature in the near future? Will definitely give it a try!
The clipboard filtering by type is the detail that jumps out, most clipboard managers just give you a flat scrollable list and you end up hunting for the one thing you copied ten items ago. The fixed transparent panel with SwiftUI animating inside it rather than the NSWindow frame is a smart workaround too, that's the kind of tradeoff most Electron based tools can't even attempt. Since clipboard history stays in RAM only, what happens across a reboot or sleep cycle, does it just start clean or is there any short lived persistence.
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 100 upvotes and 17 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.
Pulse Island was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Productivity (656.9k followers) and Apple (15.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 163.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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.
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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.