BendMac
A softer side of your Mac.
Details
- External ID
- 1247817
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- BendMac
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Open Source, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps, Apple
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
A gentle desktop blur that follows your MacBook lid. BendMac is a free, open-source native macOS app, inspired by the iPhone Duo animation. Download it or help make it better :)
Enrichment
- Theme
- foldable and dual-screen UI utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mac customization utility
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No It relies on private/undocumented Apple Silicon IOKit HID lid-angle sensor APIs and custom CoreAnimation/Metal shaders for low-level screen deformation and blur.
What it would actually take: A developer must write native Swift/Objective-C code using reverse-engineered IOKit HID event services (`AppleSPUHIDDevice` or similar sensors) to read the hardware lid angle. It captures the screen layer without overhead and applies real-time GPU distortion/blur via Metal shaders matching the physical angle without lagging macOS display composition.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 297 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #190 of 298 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.
- BendMac · github · 2026-09-10 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- LidBendy · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- lid-plane · github · 2026-09-10 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- softfold · github · 2026-09-12 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Angler · ph · 2026-09-22 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Sway · ph · 2026-09-13 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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