Sway
Your MacBook's lid moves. Your desktop follows.
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Sway makes your MacBook feel a little more alive. Move the lid and your live desktop bends with it, with perspective, blur, and soft shadows you can adjust. Open it again and everything returns to normal. Try it for yourself with the interactive preview on the website.
PH · launched Sep 13, 2026 · 4 upvotes (top 8%) · 1 view
Niche: desktop and display utilities · 171 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 171 launches in desktop and display utilities →
Could you build this?
Partial Tracking physical MacBook lid angles requires private/undocumented Apple IOKit/HID APIs (e.g. AppleLMUController or lid angle sensor readings), plus low-level CoreGraphics / Metal desktop window compositing hooks that are tricky to vibe code.
What it would actually take: The app likely uses Swift/Objective-C interfacing with undocumented IOKit HID lid sensor services (or ambient light sensors on older models) to read the exact physical hinge angle in real time. It renders desktop transformations using Metal shaders or private CoreGraphics window server APIs (CGS) to tilt/warp active screen buffers with perspective and blur. The hardest parts are reverse engineering undocumented hardware sensor hooks and maintaining stability against macOS security sandboxing and private API breakage.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 621 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #133 of 622 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 301 days after the earliest competitor.
- LidBendy · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- hinge · github · 2026-09-10 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- softfold · github · 2026-09-12 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Knock · ph · 2026-03-16 · 168 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- lidtap · github · 2026-10-30 · 119 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- lid-plane · github · 2026-09-10 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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