Music, timer, clipboard, translation, local AI — all one hover away. In and out: never more than thirty seconds.
A band slides down under the notch and follows the song, line by line — nothing to open, while you work.
Apple Music and Spotify. Hover it and it folds away — whatever it covered is clickable again.
And they follow a video too: the track is recognized by its sound (ShazamKit), then its lines land on the second.
A video, a tab: the title, a position that moves, play and pause.
Apple Music and Spotify still go their own way. A song recognized in the video takes the thumbnail’s place: only a few seconds of an audio fingerprint go to Apple — never the audio, never the microphone.
Quick questions, rewriting, a smart clipboard — all local.
No account, no API key, nothing leaves the machine. The model loads on demand and unloads once it’s done.
One tab in the open panel: 4,000 characters, ten languages, translated on the device.
Press Return and it translates: the original folds up into one line, the translation lands underneath. Click that line to reopen it, and change the target language in the card itself.
Any text, from any app, dropped onto the notch.
The source language is detected and the translation runs on the device. Ten languages, downloadable to work offline.
One press of a volume or brightness key: the line of light runs the notch up to the level, then fades.
No slab in the middle of the screen. The glyph on the left, the percentage on the right, at notch height — and nothing else. White for volume, amber for brightness. On a Mac without a notch, or on an external display, the island appears just for the adjustment.
What’s playing, at what level, on which output — without opening a single window.
Mute Safari in one click, turn Music down without touching the rest, a curve equalizer for whoever wants to go further. Fronton remembers your settings from one time to the next, and tells you who’s using the mic.
The last thirty texts you copied stay in the panel — one click copies one back.
Type, and the list narrows at once; hover an entry and an eye unfolds the text. Copies stay on this Mac, from one hour to seven days depending on your setting — 24 hours by default.
Drop a file onto the notch: a real copy sits on the file shelf for the next six hours.
A HEIC comes out as a JPEG, a PDF is split into one image per page, as far as the shelf has room. The size shown is that of the file, already converted — the original stays, the result joins it.
⌃⌥T, then type wherever you like. A second and a half without touching the keyboard, and your sentence becomes its translation — right where you wrote it.
While you type, Fronton waits; when you stop, it translates. Spelling fixed and translated in a single pass of the local model. What you type never leaves the Mac.
Drop a text on the right wing of the notch: four writing moves open up.
Fix the typos, summarize, shorten, or change the tone of the message — from professional to relaxed. The result comes back in a flash, ready to copy, from the local model.
An image of your own, framed and zoomed as you like — or one of five backdrops drawn for the island.
The cropper shows the real panel sitting on your photo: what you see is what you get. A backdrop exports as a single file, and opens in another Fronton in one click.
Its progress is a line of light running along the outline of the notch.
No one else has this line: down the left, along the bottom, back up the right. Orange for a timer, blue for a file copy — it always measures something, it never decorates.
0.4% at rest, 1.3% while music plays, 48 MB of memory — measured in ten-second windows.
Cursor tracking no longer polls: it wakes on mouse movement and only looks when you come near the island. The clocks run only while something is on screen. An app that stays open all day has no business making itself felt.
Fronton starts, summarizes, remembers, or hands off. It never becomes the place where a long task lives — if a gesture needs time, it finishes in the app built for it. The island gives you your screen back; it doesn’t take it.
14-day trial · payment by Polar · no account to create
What people ask before they buy.
Yes. With a notch, the island extends it. Without one, it only appears when it has something to show, or when you rest the cursor for a moment at the top center of the screen; a thin sliver signals the approach. With several displays, the resting island follows the cursor.
An Apple silicon Mac (M1 or newer) running macOS 26. Fronton doesn’t exist for Intel Macs: it won’t launch on one, even under macOS 26.
Fronton lives on its price alone: no ads, no telemetry, no account to create. The 14-day trial opens everything, with no payment details: you judge it on your own Mac before you pay.
Not one feature. Lifetime: one payment, and updates for as long as Fronton exists. Monthly: cancel anytime, the key goes dark at the end of the paid period, and Fronton has to check in at least once every 14 days.
Your settings stay. Apple Music, Spotify and a timer already running keep showing in the island; the panel still opens, blurred and locked, until you enter a key. During the trial, the panel shows how much time is left.
The key arrives by email after the purchase: paste it into Settings › Account. It covers two Macs. To move to another Mac, click “Release this Mac” on the old one; if it is no longer yours, remove it from the Polar customer portal, then activate the new one right away.
Both: title, artwork, controls, and lyrics once you turn them on. If both are playing, Fronton shows whichever you started last.
The app has no account, no Fronton server, no usage statistics. The AI runs on the Mac, and clipboard history never leaves your Mac (and is only kept for the time you choose). What does leave — the license check, the weather — is listed on the Legal page.
Not at rest: the model only loads when an AI gesture is coming, and gives the memory back at most two minutes after the last use. Its 3.4 GB download only happens if you ask for it.
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