jh3y/lid-plane
Your MacBook has the folding animation at home. A lid-angle-driven progressive blur for macOS.
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Your MacBook has the folding animation at home. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3282749f-58d8-47dc-b86a-408e50003e07 A tiny menu bar app that holds your desktop at an apparent fixed angle and progressively blurs it as you close the lid below 110°. Open it above that angle and your desktop is untouched. Your apps stay clickable and keep keyboard focus. An alternative movement-based mode can settle the effect when you pause. Download Lid Plane for Apple silicon (DMG) · ZIP alternative · v0.3.3 · experimental Corresponding source for v0.3.3 · Build instructions You need macOS 13 or newer, an Apple silicon MacBook, and a readable lid angle sensor. Sensor support varies between models; Apple silicon alone does not guarantee compatibility. This is not an Intel or Windows download. No terminal, Xcode, or build step is needed for the download. The effect starts off each time you open the app. This experimental build is not notarized by Apple. If…
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- Lid Plane
- Download and run
- macOS says it cannot verify the app?
- Controls
- Angle mode and jitter tolerance
- Closed-lid and external-display safety
- If something is not working
- Privacy and removal
- What is dist?
- Build or contribute
- How it works (ELI5)
- License
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What this repository does
Your MacBook has the folding animation at home. A lid-angle-driven progressive blur for macOS.
Repository facts
- Owner
- jh3y
- Primary language
- Swift
- Stars
- 222
- Forks
- 15
- Open issues + pull requests
- 2
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-09-10T15:43:38.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-13T15:39:25.000Z
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