Bendable
macOS menu bar app that turns MacBook lid movement into a screen animation, driven by the lid angle sensor at display rate.
Details
- External ID
- 1364906072
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- Bendable
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 93
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9176915193440943
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- lid angle sensor animation utility for macbook
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 401 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #47 of 402 (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
- MacDuo · github · 2026-09-12 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- LidBendy · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- lid-plane · github · 2026-09-10 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- FluidFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.62
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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