LidClose — your Mac folds as you close the lid

Real footage

Shot on a phone. No edits to the screen.

This is an actual MacBook Pro running LidClose. Everything you see on the display is the app rendering in real time as the lid comes down.

Frost

Closing slowly

Opening again

LidClose settings window showing the live preview, lid angle slider, three styles and the effect sliders

The whole app is one window.

No onboarding, no account, no dashboard. Open it from the menu bar and every control is in front of you.

Live preview that mirrors your real lid angle as you move it.
Three styles — Fold, Silk and Shade — switchable instantly.
Start at decides the angle the effect begins, 90° by default.
Perspective, blur and shadow on their own sliders.

The part nobody else uses

There is a protractor inside your MacBook.

Every Apple Silicon MacBook ships a hinge-angle sensor on the HID bus. macOS uses it to wake and sleep the machine. LidClose reads the same number, sixty times a second, and turns it straight into pixels.

135°live angle

60Hzwhile moving

~5msGPU per frame

Three looks

Pick the one that fits your desk.

Switch between them on the MacBook above. Every parameter is a slider in the app too — perspective, variable blur, shadow, and the angle the effect starts at.

Frost

A milky haze spreads down from the far edge, then the panel fades to black.

Silk

A soft sheen slides down the glass as it closes, like light rolling off a screen protector.

Shade

The display simply darkens from the top, as if the lid itself were casting the shadow.

Under the hood

Not a video. Not a guess.

LidClose samples the hinge sensor Apple already ships in every Apple Silicon MacBook, then renders the bend on the GPU in real time.

Real lid-angle sensor

Polled at 60 Hz while the lid moves, 20 Hz while it rests. The effect tracks your hand degree by degree, and reverses when you open it again.

60fps, ~5ms a frame

Core Image straight into a Metal layer. No screen recording to disk, no compositing lag, no fan spin.

Nothing leaves your Mac

Frames are read, bent and thrown away. No network calls, no analytics, no file ever written.

Tune everything

Perspective, variable blur, shadow and the start angle are all sliders. Set it to begin at 90°, or the moment you touch the lid.

Lives in the menu bar

Under 3 MB, idles at zero CPU, and wakes only when the hinge moves. Launch at login in one click.

Native Swift

A real AppKit and SwiftUI app signed for Apple Silicon. Not Electron, not a wallpaper hack.

Pricing

Buy it once. Keep it.

LidClose for macOS

^$9

One-time. No subscription, ever.

Instant download, emailed the moment you pay
All three styles and every slider
Lifetime updates, use on all your Macs
Secure checkout by Polar, cards and Apple Pay

You'll get the .dmg and your license key by email.

Make it back

Film it. Post it. Get paid back.

Show a real MacBook folding and LidClose can cost you nothing. Three steps.

Film it

Point your phone at your Mac and close the lid slowly. Ten seconds is plenty. Your desktop, your wallpaper, your pick of the three styles.

Post it

Instagram Reels or TikTok. Add the hashtag so we can find it, and so other people can too.

#lidclose

Send the link

Once it passes a line below, email the post link, a screenshot of the view count, and the address you paid with. The refund goes back through Polar to your card.

agnikmisra1@gmail.com

1,000 views

50% back

$1.50 returned

10,000 views

100% back

the whole $2.99 returned

Posting on X works too. X counts impressions rather than plays, so the bar is ten times higher there: 10,000 for half back, 100,000 for all of it.

Views have to be organic. No bought views, bots, or paid promotion.
Post as often as you like, but one post has to cross the line on its own. One payout per purchase.
Claims are read by a person and that call is final. The programme can change, but a claim already sent is honoured.
You keep the rights to your video. We may reshare it with credit unless you tell us not to.

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Questions

Good to know.

Which Macs does it work on?

Any Apple Silicon MacBook Air or MacBook Pro from 2021 onward running macOS 14 or later — those are the models with the hinge-angle sensor. On a Mac without the sensor the app still runs and you can play the effect from the menu bar or drag the angle slider, but it won't follow the lid.

Why does it need Screen Recording permission?

To bend your screen, LidClose has to see your screen. macOS files that under Screen Recording. Frames go straight from ScreenCaptureKit to the GPU and are discarded. Nothing is saved, and the app makes no network requests at all.

Does it slow my Mac down?

No. It sits idle at zero CPU until the hinge moves. While the effect is playing it renders about 5 ms per frame on the GPU, which is well inside a 60 fps budget on an M1.

Can I choose when the effect starts?

Yes. There's a "Start at" slider. The default is 90°, so the fold begins once the lid is halfway down. Set it to 130° if you want it to react the instant you touch the lid.

What if I don't like it?

Email us within 14 days and you get a full refund, no questions. It costs less than a coffee.

Where do I find my download later?

In your Polar account. Open the purchases link above, enter the email you paid with, and Polar emails you a sign-in code. Your .dmg and licence key stay there permanently, so you can re-download on any Mac you own.