Is Notch Buddy secure?

Legit.Show measured Notch Buddy's Security frame at 45/100. Security headers present: HSTS. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure Notch Buddy?

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

Notch Buddy

Last updated 2026-09-19 · benchmark measured 2026-09-19 — deterministic & reproducible

A macOS app that puts 19 tools into the space around your MacBook's notch.

82/100

7/7 frames

Top 37% of 14,148 measured · #6 of 12 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 2026-09-19 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Notch Buddy 82/100 on 2026-09-19, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/notchbuddy-com/2026-09-19

Is Notch Buddy production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Notch Buddy 82 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Notch Buddy (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 — 66/100
Accessibility — 96/100
Security — 45/100
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 — 89/100
Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

Security headers present: HSTS.
No Content-Security-Policy.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 152 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

Mohit Vaswani (@hii_mohit)

Who it's for

Mac owners · Entrepreneurs · Content creators · Productivity-focused users · Remote workers

Pricing

$5.99 lifetime (launch price for first 100 customers; $19.99 after)

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from notchbuddy.com's own website on 2026-09-19.
Operator: Notch Buddy, as named in notchbuddy.com'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 2026-09-19.

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

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