LidBendy
Make your MacBook display bend with the lid
Details
- External ID
- 1247168
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- LidBendy
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
LidBendy turns the physical motion of your MacBook lid into a live desktop effect. As you close the lid, your actual desktop bends, blurs and shades toward the hinge in real time. It uses the MacBook’s lid-angle sensor and Metal rendering - no prerecorded animation or fake transition. Built as a lightweight native macOS utility.
Enrichment
- Theme
- foldable and dual-screen UI utilities
- Vertical
- —
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macbook display hinge modification
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Accessing undocumented Apple private APIs for internal lid angle sensors (e.g., IOHIDEventSystem) combined with low-level Metal shaders to distort the live desktop compositor requires specialized macOS systems and graphics engineering.
What it would actually take: Requires reverse-engineering private IOKit / IOHID Apple Silicon sensor registers to continuously read the hinge angle without root, alongside capturing live display buffer streams and applying non-linear 3D mesh deformation shaders via Apple Metal. A developer needs deep expertise in low-level macOS internals, undocumented system frameworks, and high-performance GPU programming.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 219 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #132 of 220 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 299 days after the earliest competitor.
- Sway · ph · 2026-09-13 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- lid-plane · github · 2026-09-10 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- softfold · github · 2026-09-12 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- hinge · github · 2026-09-10 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- BendMac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Mac Duo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 98 upvotes · similarity 0.60
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.