Angler
The iPhone Duo fold, for your Mac
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Angler is a tiny macOS menu-bar app that holds your desktop at a fixed apparent angle and adds depth as you close the lid: tilt, progressive blur, and more. Use your live desktop or your own wallpaper. Your screen never leaves your Mac.
PH · launched Sep 22, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 1 view
Niche: desktop environment and customization software · 283 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
- Apple
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More like this: all 283 launches in desktop environment and customization software →
Could you build this?
Partial A basic macOS menu app is simple, but accessing undocumented lid-angle sensors and applying live Metal 3D screen transformations to desktop capture buffers demands specialized macOS graphics and kernel/IOKit knowledge.
What it would actually take: The app is written in Swift/Objective-C using IOKit to read the undocumented hinge sensor (`AppleSensor` / `IOHIDEventSystemClient` for MacBook lid angle) and ScreenCaptureKit to capture the desktop display in real time. It routes captured video frames through an Apple Metal shader pipeline that performs perspective warping, depth mapping, progressive blur, and chromatic aberration before rendering to a borderless overlay window.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 544 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #118 of 545 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
- Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- ipad-vertical · github · 2026-10-12 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Headroom · ph · 2026-10-23 · 85 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- BendMac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- DuoHinge · github · 2026-09-12 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Foldelight · hn · 2026-09-11 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- DuoScreen · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- WinDuo · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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