Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo
Close your MacBook lid. Watch your desktop fold away.
Details
- External ID
- 1250175
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Menu Bar Apps, Apple
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
MacBook Fold / Duo reads your MacBook's lid-angle sensor and animates your desktop in real time as you close the lid. It folds, rolls, shutters, or swirls into a black hole. 12 metal effects, all tunable. Free, open source, and your screen never leaves your Mac.
Enrichment
- Theme
- foldable and dual-screen UI utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macbook screen folding animation utility for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Accessing the MacBook's private IOKit/HID lid-angle sensor APIs and rendering full-desktop Metal shader distortion effects requires low-level macOS system programming.
What it would actually take: The app needs a native macOS Swift/Objective-C wrapper that interacts with private IOKit HID lid sensor events (AppleSilicon/Intel HID reports). The desktop display must be captured via ScreenCaptureKit and routed through a custom Metal rendering pipeline executing 3D deformation shaders (folding, black hole warping) mapped to the real-time angle float. Deep knowledge of low-level macOS graphics and undocumented hardware sensors is essential.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 344 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #228 of 345 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.
- Duoveil · ph · 2026-09-14 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.78
- Foldelight · hn · 2026-09-11 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.77
- DuoBook · github · 2026-09-10 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- WinDuo · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- softfold · github · 2026-09-12 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- LidBendy · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Mac-Duo · github · 2026-09-10 · 854 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- iphone-duo-macos-animation · github · 2026-09-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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