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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.

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