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Mac-Duo

Wish you could bring the iPhone Duo effect to your MacBook?

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GITHUB · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 854 upvotes (top 1%) · 2 views

Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • flip
  • iphone
  • iphoneduo
  • mac
  • macos
  • menubar
  • +2 more

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Could you build this?

Yes This is an open-source macOS menu bar utility or screen/camera companion app replicating the iPhone Duo dual-camera UI/filter effect, easily constructed using Swift and AVFoundation.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 999 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #11 of 1000 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Macbook_Duo_Effect · github · 2026-09-11 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.77
  • DuoBook · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
  • iphone-duo-readiness · github · 2026-09-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • DuoScreen · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • Duoveil · ph · 2026-09-14 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • iphone-duo-macos-animation · github · 2026-09-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • DuoBar · github · 2026-09-12 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • iphone-solo · github · 2026-09-10 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.64

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