Dynamic Lake Pro - An App for the Notch
In my ongoing search for an app to take advantage of the notch on my M2 MacBook Air, I bought Dynamic Lake Pro today after the developer offered a 20% discount on Reddit. The app provides a variety of information from system controls and applications.
General Controls
You can elect to display a
graphic in the notch when you use the function keys to control the
screen brightness or the volume. The color of the text is user
configurable, and you can toggle sounds to your liking, on or off.
DynaMusiX
The primary display of the app show
media controls that are a little fancier than what Control Center shows
the added benefit of being always visible.
DynaGlance
By hitting fn+space, you can bring up
DynaGance which features date, time and local weather (F or C). With a
two-fingered swipe on the trackpad you can switch to a calendar view
with appointments listed. Currently the appointments are a little hard
to see because they are dimmed with no apparent way to make them
brighter.
DynaSwitcher
Pressing fn+tab bringers up an
application switcher in the notch showing your open apps and a small
preview window. Like the default Mac app switcher, there is no way to
choose a specific window if you have an app that has multiple windows
open.
Notifications
You can choose to display
notifications from WhatsApp, Apple Mail, Messages and Facebook Messenger
in the notch. Presumably you'll want to turn these off in Notification
center. You can reply to messages in the notch as well. It took me a
minute to figure out that in order to remove the notification that you
need to swipe it away. You can also elect to get calendar and battery
notifications in the notch as well.
A single license is $13.90 on Gumroad and entitles you to use the app on three Macs. For a limited time, enjoy a 20% discount with the code: AJHBEDO. You can get more info at the developer's website. Based on reviews and feedback from other users, it seems that the developer is responsive to bug reports and is working hard to improve the app.