Drop a drop on an app.
Its notifications come to you.
One ball of water on your Mac gathers the notifications of only the apps you choose. Follow an app, or stop following it, at any moment: you decide.
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Small, calm, and yours.
One ball for the apps you pick
Press and hold the drop at its centre, carry it out, and let it fall on any app's window or Dock icon. That app's notifications now gather in the orb. Take its icon out of the ball to stop.
Copies and downloads, at a glance
A small card with the file's name, a thin bar and the time left appears whenever something takes more than a second to copy or download. Move it anywhere.
Widgets above the Dock
Progress, status, timers, battery, USB devices and disk space, on one piece of liquid glass. Drag to arrange; the order is remembered.
Anything can post to it
A tiny command-line tool, hudctl, lets any script or build show a progress bar or a status. One line, no setup.
Light on your Mac
It rests when you do and wakes only when you touch it, so it stays out of the way of everything else you run.
Private by design
Everything happens on your Mac. Notifications are read locally, never sent anywhere, and the app makes no network calls of its own.
How it works
- Install and open it. The bar and the ball appear above your Dock.
- Allow notifications to be read. macOS asks you to give Glassdrop Full Disk Access once; that is how it sees which app a notification came from. Nothing else needs a permission, except Accessibility if you want to drop on Dock icons.
- Drop the drop. Hold the drop 0.3 s, carry it to an app, let go. Tap the app's icon in the ball to read what it said; click a message to open it.
For the first 100 copies, then €9. One time, no subscription. Free updates for all of version 1.
One email when it is ready. No newsletter, no sharing your address.
Questions
Which Macs does it run on?
Macs with Apple silicon running macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later. It uses the new liquid-glass look of macOS 26, so it does not run on older systems.
Why does it ask for Full Disk Access?
macOS keeps notifications in a protected database. Reading which app a notification came from needs that permission. Glassdrop reads that database on your Mac only, only for the apps you chose, and stores or sends nothing.
Is it on the Mac App Store?
No. The App Store requires apps to be sandboxed, and a sandboxed app cannot read notifications. It will be sold directly, signed and notarized by Apple.
Which apps' notifications can it gather?
Any app that shows macOS notifications. A click takes you to the exact place when the app, or the script that posted the notification, gives a link: Claude does today; for other apps a click opens the app.
Can I get a refund?
Yes: within 14 days of buying, no questions asked. Write to the support address and you get your €3 back.