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macOS menu bar app that turns MacBook lid movement into a screen animation, driven by the lid angle sensor at display rate.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 93 upvotes (top 9%) · 1 view

Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial Interfacing with private Apple Silicon IOHID/IOKit lid angle sensor services and matching display refresh rates with low latency requires specialized macOS hardware internals knowledge.

What it would actually take: A native macOS Swift app tapping into private IOKit HID event services (`AppleSPUHIDDevice` or PMU sensor properties) at ProMotion refresh rates (up to 120Hz). The app must create an interactive window server overlay or display stream using Metal/CoreAnimation without introducing input lag or high CPU usage. The bottleneck is undocumented sensor driver quirks and low-level system graphics integration.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1020 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #148 of 1021 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.

  • DuoHinge · github · 2026-09-12 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.73
  • DuoFlip · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.73
  • MacBook-Duo · github · 2026-09-11 · 127 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • foldelight · github · 2026-09-11 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • lidtap · github · 2026-10-30 · 119 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • MacDuo · github · 2026-09-12 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • lid-plane · github · 2026-09-10 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • LidBendy · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65

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