softfold
Close the lid, and your MacBook desktop folds away softly. Follows the hinge angle with a live perspective fold and progressive blur.
Details
- External ID
- 1367812857
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- softfold
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 51
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8252626184985908
- Tags
- lid-angle-sensor, macbook, macos, menu-bar-app, metal, screencapturekit, swift
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- lid-angle folding desktop animation for macbooks
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The CoreAnimation/Metal perspective transform and blur effects are straightforward to build, but reading live MacBook hinge angles requires undocumented IOKit/SMC sensor APIs.
What it would actually take: The app needs a macOS daemon built in Swift or Objective-C querying Apple SMC or private IOKit sensors (specifically the lid angle/accelerometer registers available on modern MacBooks). The UI layer uses a transparent overlay window using Metal or Core Image shaders to apply perspective warping and progressive blur in lockstep with the reported hinge angle. Accessing and reverse engineering undocumented hardware registers across different MacBook revisions is the primary hurdle.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 214 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 215 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.
- hinge · github · 2026-09-10 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- lid-plane · github · 2026-09-10 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- FluidFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- DuoBook · github · 2026-09-10 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- LidBendy · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- MacDuo · github · 2026-09-10 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- foldelight · github · 2026-09-11 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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- No other launches for this product.
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