A Whole New Experience for Dynamic Island on Mac

Introducing DynamicLake Market

DynamicLake is becoming more than an app.

It's becoming a platform

Introducing DynamicLake Market - a new place to discover, install, and manage plugins that bring entirely new experiences directly into your Lake.

And the Market isn't starting empty.

From day one, you'll already find plugins for Google Calendar, AI Agents, developer tools, productivity workflows, and more each bringing its own Live Activities and Sneak Peeks to DynamicLake

Your Apps. Inside the Lake.

Imagine seeing your next Google Calendar event directly in the Lake.

An AI agent working on a task can stay visible while it thinks, works, and completes its job.

A developer tool can show the progress of a running process.

A service can let you know the moment something is completed.

All without keeping another window open.

Plugins turn DynamicLake into a place where the things happening across your Mac can come together.

Discover. Install. Done.

DynamicLake Market is built to make plugins feel like a native part of the DynamicLake experience.

Browse the Market, find something you want, install it, and it becomes available inside DynamicLake.

No complicated setup.

No manually downloading and moving plugin files.

Discover. Install. Enjoy.

And This Is Just the Beginning

The first collection of plugins is only the start.

DynamicLake Market is designed to grow with the community.

Developers can create their own plugins and bring new apps, services, tools and workflows into DynamicLake whether they're building with Swift, Python, JavaScript, Go, or something else entirely.

That means DynamicLake no longer has to wait for a new app update every time another service wants to integrate with the Lake.

Developers can build it.

The community can discover it.

And you can add it to your Lake.

A Dynamic Island experience that grows far beyond what we could build alone

Extensions Go Even Further

Plugins aren't replacing DynamicLake Extensions.

They're joining them.

DynamicLake now offers different ways for developers to integrate depending on how deeply they want to customize the experience.

Plugins make it incredibly easy to send information and activities into DynamicLake, while Extensions provide developers with deeper possibilities for creating richer DynamicLake experiences.

Together, they form the foundation of a much larger ecosystem.

Instead of asking:

"Will DynamicLake support this app?"

The idea is that increasingly, developers will be able to answer that themselves.

Meet Pill Notch

DynamicLake has always been designed around the MacBook notch.

But what if you don't want to use the notch?

Meet Pill Notch.

Pill Notch gives DynamicLake a new compact floating form inspired by the iOS Dynamic Island bringing the experience beyond the physical MacBook notch.

It creates a smaller, cleaner and more flexible way to experience your Live Activities, notifications, music and other DynamicLake interactions.

It's still DynamicLake, Just in a different shape.

And it makes the experience feel at home across even more Mac setups.

Live Activities, Everywhere

Live Activities have become one of the most important parts of DynamicLake.

Music. Timers. Calls. Transfers. Plugins. Extensions.

DynamicLake can surface what is happening right now without forcing you to constantly switch between apps.

And with third-party Plugins and Extensions, Live Activities are no longer limited to what ships inside DynamicLake itself.

They're becoming a canvas developers can build on.

Sneak Peek

Not everything deserves to expand into a full Live Activity.

Sometimes you just need a moment.

That's where Sneak Peek comes in.

Sneak Peek lets DynamicLake briefly surface contextual information around the notch and then disappear again.

A new song.

A connected device.

A completed action.

An incoming event.

A plugin update.

It's information that appears when it matters and gets out of your way when it doesn't.

With Plugins and Extensions gaining access to the DynamicLake experience, Sneak Peek becomes even more powerful.

Still the DynamicLake You Know

The new platform doesn't replace what makes DynamicLake useful today.

Everything continues to live together inside one experience.

Music remains deeply integrated into the Lake, including support for Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube and other music apps.

DynaDrop continues to turn the Lake into a powerful place for files, with conversion, AirDrop, file storage and sharing workflows.

Notifications bring messages and communication into Dynamic Island-style interactions.

Calls, calendar, weather, system controls, connected devices and the rest of DynamicLake continue to evolve alongside the new platform.

The difference is that now, DynamicLake doesn't have to grow only through DynamicLake updates

The ecosystem can grow with it

Welcome to the new DynamicLake