BendMac
A softer side of your Mac.
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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 :)
PH · launched Sep 12, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 2 views
Niche: desktop environment and customization software · 283 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
- Apple
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More like this: all 283 launches in desktop environment and customization software →
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 : 715 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #610 of 716 (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 0.61
- lid-plane · github · 2026-09-10 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- CleanMac · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- softfold · github · 2026-09-12 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Angler · ph · 2026-09-22 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Sway · ph · 2026-09-13 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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