Is NotchBuddy secure?

Legit.Show measured NotchBuddy's Security frame at 80/100. Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure NotchBuddy?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Productivity

NotchBuddy

Last updated 2026-09-25 · benchmark measured 2026-11-05 — deterministic & reproducible

NotchBuddy puts 19 productivity tools and a virtual desk pet in your MacBook's notch.

90/100

7/7 frames

Top 22% of 19,078 measured · #5 of 18 in macbook notch app

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-11-05 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored NotchBuddy 90/100 on 2026-11-05, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/notchbuddy-app/2026-11-05

Is NotchBuddy production-ready?

Legit.Show scores NotchBuddy 90 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on NotchBuddy (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 84/100
Accessibility — 92/100
Security — 80/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 75/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 100/100
Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
No Content-Security-Policy.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 421 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

Abhinay Guptha (@abhinayguptha)

Who it's for

Mac users · Indie makers · Designers · Remote workers · Freelancers

Pricing

$20 one-time payment, no subscription, 14-day refund

Apps

NotchBuddy: Notch Pet & Tools · App Store · Free

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from notchbuddy.app's own website on 2026-09-25.
Operator: Approtic Solution Private Limited, as named in notchbuddy.app's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-11-05.

Put together from public information, without NotchBuddy's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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