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iphone-duo-macos-animation

A clone of Iphone Duo's fold progressive blur animation on macbook using lid tilt sensor. Fully native written in swift! Demo:

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GITHUB · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 102 upvotes (top 8%) · 1 view

Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 37 in the last 7 days ▼ -8% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes Accessing the MacBook lid angle sensor via IOKit and driving a SwiftUI/Metal progressive blur window overlay is a straightforward standalone macOS utility.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 776 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #98 of 777 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Duoveil · ph · 2026-09-14 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.72
  • iphone-duo · github · 2026-09-10 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.72
  • NUEM · github · 2026-09-15 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • lid-plane · github · 2026-09-10 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • foldy · github · 2026-09-11 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • Mac-Duo · github · 2026-09-10 · 854 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • MacBook-Duo · github · 2026-09-11 · 127 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • iphone-duo · github · 2026-09-09 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.62

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