iPhone Duo animation → MacBook · macOS 14 or newer
The iPhone Duo fold. On your MacBook.
That fluid fold animation from iPhone Duo — MacFold brings it to the MacBook you already own. Tilt the lid and the desktop you are looking at softens and dims from the top down, live, at full frame rate.
US$1.99 · one-time purchase
No account, no subscription. Your license key and the download appear on this page the moment payment clears.
One MacBook, three lid angles
What is on the screen in each frame is the real MacFold render at that angle: the desktop blurs from the top down and darkens as the lid comes down — no distortion, the picture stays exactly where it is. The menu bar and the Dock are excluded on purpose, so the Mac stays usable while it runs.
What is actually happening
- Capture
- A ScreenCaptureKit stream of the built-in display feeds the renderer at up to 60 frames per second.
- Fold
- A Metal shader blurs the picture progressively toward the top and shades the upper corners, all driven by the lid angle. Nothing is warped or moved.
- Nothing leaves the Mac
- Frames live in GPU memory for a single draw call and are discarded. No files, no network, no recording.
Before you buy
- macOS
- 14 Sonoma or newer
- Mac
- Apple silicon MacBook. The hinge sensor MacFold reads ships in every 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro and in the MacBook Air from M2 on.
- Permission
- Screen Recording — macOS asks the first time you turn MacFold on.
Also works on MacBook Air M1
No hinge sensor? MacFold still folds.
The MacBook Air M1 and 13-inch MacBook Pro shipped without a hinge sensor. MacFold does not leave them out — it reads the ambient light sensor in the display bezel instead, and switches to that mode by itself.
Reads the bezel light sensor
As the lid comes down, the sensor faces less of the room light. MacFold turns that drop into the fold, live.
Detects your Mac automatically
Hinge sensor available: it is used. Not available: No-sensor mode takes over — no settings to hunt for.
Manual mode on any Mac
A slider drives the fold by hand if you just want the look, sensor or not.
Honest note: No-sensor mode is an estimate. Room lighting affects it, and the app labels it plainly on screen.
Questions
Is it a subscription?
No. Pay once and keep it. One key covers three of your Macs, and updates arrive through the app.
Does it touch external monitors?
No. Only the display attached to the hinge folds; anything on an external screen is left alone.
What if I close the lid all the way?
The Mac sleeps like it always does. MacFold animates while the lid is moving and simply stops when the display goes dark.
I lost my key.
Every purchase lives in the customer portal. The Recover Key link at the top opens it, shows your key and lets you detach a Mac.
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