A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOUR MAC
Tyland.
A Dynamic Island for your Mac — notch or no notch.
Native SwiftUI + AppKit, built from scratch with no Xcode project and no external packages. Now Playing with real system-audio waveforms, HUDs, Bluetooth battery, gestures, live activities and calendar ETAs — all living in a notch that Tyland synthesises when your Mac does not have one.
Make it yours- PLATFORM
- macOS 13+
- AVAILABILITY
- Public source; no open-source license declared
- STATUS
- v0.6.0
THE GOOD STUFF
Small details.
A useful difference.
Now Playing
Album art, artwork-derived gradient, scrubber and transport controls, driven by a signed media helper so mediaremoted still answers on macOS 15.4+.
Real waveform
System audio captured through a CoreAudio process tap — not a looping animation pretending to listen.
HUDs that belong
Volume, display brightness, keyboard backlight, battery and charging, rendered in the island instead of the stock overlay.
Devices
Bluetooth connect and disconnect events, with AirPods battery levels read straight from the IORegistry.
Gestures
Two-finger swipe down or up to open and close, left or right to skip tracks.
Live activities
Focus mode, mic and camera in use, screen recording, downloads in progress, and a leave-in ETA from MapKit to your next calendar event.
Works without a notch
NotchGeometry detects a physical notch when present and synthesises 14"/16" dimensions when it is not, so the app looks identical either way.
No Xcode required
Builds with Command Line Tools alone. ./build.sh release produces the app; ./package.sh produces the DMG and ZIP.
SETTLE RIGHT IN
Make yourself
at home.
First launch
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Tyland.app
open /Applications/Tyland.appBuild from source
git clone https://github.com/umararshad4/cova.git
cd cova && ./build.sh release
open build/Tyland.appTHERE’S MORE TO EXPLORE