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Life & fun · October 6, 2026

Isly

Your MacBook notch, brought to life.

Isly launched on October 6, 2026 with 61 votes, #338 of 2,321 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Isly turns your MacBook’s notch into a Dynamic Island: music controls, swipe to skip, live activities, calendar, timer and HUDs. 3 days free, then €3.99.

Music, timers, your calendar and more, living right in the MacBook notch. Don’t take our word for it: try the one below. The player, with its cover and controls. Move away and it closes. Down for your calendar and the timer, up to go back and close. Your music stays in reach while your Mac is locked, in glass that bends the wallpaper behind it on macOS 26 and later, and in a frosted card before that. CPU while it waits for you. It won’t show up in Activity Monitor’s top list. of memory, even after opening and closing it again and again. tuned frame by frame, so it moves like it was always part of your Mac. 1 Measured on a 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and 24 GB of memory, running macOS…from isly.app

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