Productivity
Pulse, a living island for your notch
Last updated 2026-07-26 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible
Pulse turns the MacBook notch into a live widget bar for music, meetings, and more.
Is Pulse, a living island for your notch production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Pulse, a living island for your notch 82 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Pulse, a living island for your notch (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 78/100
- Accessibility — 96/100
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 75/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 85/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 203 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who built it
Aayush Talreja (@_aayu5h)
Who it's for
Mac users with notch · Productivity enthusiasts · macOS power users
Pricing
Free during beta. $0, no subscription, no account, no card required
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