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Clac! Daily Origami

Fold your iPhone Duo. Fold an origami.

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Every day Clac! gives you a sheet of paper with an origami hidden in it. Fold your iPhone Duo and the paper takes a fold, right on the cover screen, with a little paper "clac". On the last fold you see what it was: a crane, a fox, a lotus, a phoenix. No Duo? Every 500 steps counts as a fold. 30 origami, rare papers like gold-leaf washi, step-by-step instructions to fold them for real. Free to start, one purchase unlocks everything. No account, no ads, no tracking.

PH · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: casual mobile games · 461 launches, 67 in the last 7 days ▼ -8% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • iOS
  • Games

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Could you build this?

Partial The app UI and daily content flow are easy to vibe-code, but detecting fold gestures on a dual-screen phone and reading step counts depends on platform-specific APIs. The origami artwork and folding animations also require illustration and paper-folding design work.

What it would actually take: Build a native iOS app in Swift/SwiftUI with HealthKit for step counts and the platform's hinge and cover-screen APIs for fold detection. The hard parts are reliable fold-state sensing on the specific device and producing dozens of accurate origami sequences with animated steps. That needs someone who understands origami and motion design, or a large content pipeline.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 299 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #148 of 300 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 248 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Paint & Fold · ph · 2026-11-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • Orisuji · ph · 2026-10-23 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • duo-responsive · github · 2026-09-12 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Fortune Fold · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • duo-open · github · 2026-09-11 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • DuoDiscover · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • FoldFocus · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54

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