Duoveil
An iPhone Duo-inspired lid animation for your MacBook
Details
- External ID
- 1249306
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Duoveil
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9378608082103913
- Tags
- User Experience, Menu Bar Apps, Apple
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Your MacBook deserves a closing scene. Inspired by the iPhone Duo animation, Duoveil makes your desktop fold and melt into a soft blur as you lower the lid. You might open it just to close it again.
Enrichment
- Theme
- foldable and dual-screen UI utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macbook lid open animation utility for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Reading undocumented Apple Silicon MacBook lid-angle sensor hardware values and triggering low-latency custom window-server animations requires specialized macOS internal systems programming.
What it would actually take: Building Duoveil requires Swift/Objective-C interacting with low-level macOS IOKit or HID private frameworks (specifically AppleLMU or LidSensor registers found in Apple Silicon). The visual effect requires tapping into private CoreGraphics / WindowServer APIs or using Metal/CoreAnimation overlays that intercept lid-closing transitions before sleep triggers. This requires reverse engineering macOS hardware sensors and private display-server hooks that an AI coding assistant cannot reliably generate.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 246 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #35 of 247 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
- Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.78
- Foldelight · hn · 2026-09-11 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- iphone-duo-macos-animation · github · 2026-09-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Mac-Duo · github · 2026-09-10 · 854 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- NUEM · github · 2026-09-15 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- DuoHinge · github · 2026-09-12 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- iphone-duo · github · 2026-09-10 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- lid-plane · github · 2026-09-10 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.61
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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