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Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo
Close your MacBook lid. Watch your desktop fold away.
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.
Hello Product Hunt 👋 I am Shivam.
You open and close your MacBook dozens of times a day, and every time the screen just goes dark.
This month, Apple announced a $1,999 foldable phone with a hinge that contains more than 100 parts. My laptop has been folding from day one, and I have never made a big deal about it.
So the MacBook Duo brags about it. So the MacBook Duo brags about it. It reads the lid-angle sensor built into recent MacBooks 60 times a second and animates your desktop accordingly. It reads the lid-angle sensor built into recent MacBooks 60 times a second and animates your desktop accordingly. As the lid tilts, your screen folds in half, rolls up, or closes like a camera iris, or swirls into a black hole. As the lid tilts, your screen folds in half, rolls up, or closes like a camera iris, or swirls into a black hole. Open the lid and everything snaps back, pixel-perfect. Open the lid and everything snaps back, pixel-perfect.
What’s inside?
• 12 effects with intensity, segments, curve, and timing controls • 12 effects with intensity, segments, curve, and timing controls
• If you lay the lid at any angle, the effect disappears, so you can go right on working at 70°. If you lay the lid at any angle, the effect disappears, so you can go right on working at 70°.
• menu bar app written in native Swift + Metal menu bar app written in native Swift + Metal No accounts. No analytics. No accounts. No analytics.
• The effect takes your desktop memory, and it never leaves your Mac. The effect takes your desktop memory, and it never leaves your Mac.
• Free and MIT licensed
The honest bits: you need a MacBook with a real lid-angle sensor (MacBook Air M2 or newer, or a 14"/16" MacBook Pro with M1 Pro/Max or newer). There is only an open/closed switch for the M1 Air and 13" M1/M2 Pro, and the app tells you so. The download isn't notarized yet, so the first launch requires System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
It is based on the MIT licensed Mac Duo code base and Sam Henri Gold's lid-sensor research. Thanks, you two.
I have 2 questions for you: What effect would you leave on? What is effect #13?
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About Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo on Product Hunt
“Close your MacBook lid. Watch your desktop fold away.”
Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #98 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo was featured in Open Source (68.9k followers), GitHub (41.4k followers), Menu Bar Apps (12.3k followers) and Apple (15.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 54.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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