Give your MacBook desktop a little bend. Close the lid and watch your screen softly fold and blur. Open it and everything comes back.
Hinge reads the lid angle 120 times a second and turns it into a continuous animation. Slow tilt, slow bend. Quick tilt, quick bend. A little smoothing takes the steps out of whole-degree sensor readings.
ScreenCaptureKit supplies your live desktop, and Metal adds perspective and progressive blur at 60 fps. Everything stays in memory on your Mac. No recordings, no uploads.
Requires an Apple silicon MacBook with a supported lid sensor and macOS 14 or later.
Download Hinge, open the DMG, and drag Hinge into Applications. This prototype is not notarized; macOS may ask you to approve it under Privacy & Security.
Prefer building it yourself? Grab Xcode, then:
git clone https://github.com/Noveum/hinge.git
cd hinge
make build
open build/Hinge.appAllow Screen Recording, reopen Hinge if prompted, and turn it on. The starting angle is 100°. Prefer something else? Get comfy and click Set open position. Hinge remembers.
Feature requests are welcome. Open an issue or just shoot a PR. Small fixes, smoother motion, fun ideas: come play.