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Teardown 19 · Chopstick, Mac widgets that write themselvesTrust 50%

Teardown 19

Chopstick

Widgets made for you, as private as your agent

What Ayush said · teardown

“Mac widgets that write themselves. It watches what you repeat and has your coding agent build a notch widget for it.”

10 screens · about 3 min

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So many notch apps. What's new in this one?

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Fig. 1: A launch day full of notch apps that look alike.

Yet another notch app?

Another notch app. What's new here?

What Ayush said · walkthrough

“There are a lot of MacBook notch apps coming to Product Hunt. What I'm trying to realise is what's new with this particular notch app and what they are doing.”

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Fig. 2: The real home page: widgets that write themselves.

Widgets that know my day

Not just pretty. It knows my day.

What Ayush said · walkthrough

“This is not made for aesthetic purposes. It has an aesthetic, but its major USP is that it shows you information about what you have done over a period of time.”

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Fig. 3: Product Hunt gallery: it spots a habit, then a widget appears for it.

It spots my repeats

It spots what I repeat and builds for it.

What Ayush said · walkthrough

“It can look at the patterns of what you are doing on the platform multiple times, and then create a quick skill that will do that for you in your workflow.”

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Fig. 4: Product Hunt gallery: describe a widget, and your coding agent builds it.

My agent builds it

I describe it, my agent makes it. Mine.

What Ayush said · walkthrough

“You can also use your own terminal to create a new type of widget for yourself. This is very similar to new UI creation, rather than using the already existing UI.”

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Fig. 5: Every permission is optional; it never saves screen images (FAQ).

Watching my screen?

Watching my screen all day?

What Ayush said · walkthrough

“The one thing it does take is the screen: always-on screen information that is always tracking and screen recording your screen to know what is happening, which is another security layer.”

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Fig. 6: The terms don't list the data; the privacy page does.

Collect what, exactly?

Collect what, exactly?

What Ayush said · walkthrough

“I was going through their terms and conditions. They do collect data, and there is no information about what data is collected.”

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Fig. 7: The real privacy page (updated Oct 28, 2026): the log stays on the Mac.

Local, it says

Local, it says. So who builds my widgets?

What Ayush said · walkthrough

“I want to understand how it is able to create widgets without sending data to the cloud.”

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Fig. 8: Privacy page: what you share with your agent goes to its provider.

As private as my agent

My agent reads it. My agent isn't local.

What Ayush said · teardown

“It's only as private as your agent. The local-first promise ends where the agent's provider begins.”

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Fig. 9: Our sketch: see what the agent will read, before it reads.

Show what leaves first

Show me what leaves before it leaves.

What Ayush said · teardown

“From your notes: show a "your agent will read this" preview before handing activity to a cloud agent.”

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What mattered

The journey

Trust, slide by slide

Three moments

  1. 05Watching my screen?
  2. 06Collect what, exactly?
  3. 08As private as my agent
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B

Our grade

Widgets made for me

Widgets made for me. Just show me what leaves.

What Ayush said · teardown

“It's the most interesting notch app in the current wave, because it treats the notch as an output for your own automations rather than a fixed dashboard.”

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