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LidMotion

All the magical effects, perfected.

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The iconic Duo effect.

The flagship animation that started it all. Watch your desktop seamlessly fold into real space as you close your Mac. No lag, no stutter, just pure magic.

Experience them all.

Select an effect below to see it in action.

Beautiful. Native. Lightweight.

Runs silently in your menu bar. No bloated windows, no dock icons.
Just raw, native performance.

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Zero latency

Hardware-level sensor reading at 120Hz for immediate response.

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Native design

Built with SwiftUI to look and feel exactly like a system utility.

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Runs silently

0% CPU usage in the background. Your battery won't even notice it.

Sight and Sound.

LidMotion doesn't just look incredible. It sounds incredible. Experience the tactile click of mechanical switches or the deep buzz of a CRT turning off, perfectly synced to your lid's physical movement.

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    Mechanical Click
  • 📺
    CRT Power Zap
  • 🎨
    Custom Phosphor Colors
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Built for Apple Silicon.

Engineered natively in Swift and Metal, LidMotion utilizes hardware acceleration to deliver 120FPS animations with strictly 0% idle CPU overhead.

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What happens on your Mac, stays on your Mac.

LidMotion operates 100% locally. No network requests. No analytics. No data collection. Open source and fully transparent. Always.

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Check your Mac's compatibility.

LidMotion requires a precise hardware Lid Angle Sensor (LAS) to track the exact degree of your display. This sensor is included in all modern Apple Silicon MacBooks featuring the new uniform chassis design.

✅ Fully Supported

  • • MacBook Pro 14" & 16" (M1, M2, M3, M4, M5)
  • • MacBook Air 13" & 15" (M2, M3, M4, M5)
  • • MacBook Pro 16-inch (2019, Intel)

❌ Not Supported

  • • MacBook Air M1 (2020) & older
  • • MacBook Pro 13" (M1, M2) & older
  • • Desktop Macs (iMac, Mac mini, Studio)

Frequently Asked Questions

Does it drain my battery? ▼
Not at all. LidMotion uses a highly optimized hardware event listener. It registers 0.0% CPU usage when idle and only wakes up the GPU for the fraction of a second when the lid is actively moving.
Can I use it with an external monitor? ▼
Yes! LidMotion only renders on your Mac's built-in display. If you close your MacBook to use an external monitor in "Clamshell Mode", the animation will play perfectly on the built-in screen just before it shuts off.
Why does it need Screen Recording permissions? ▼
To create the seamless 3D folding effect, LidMotion needs to capture a single frame of your desktop exactly when you start closing the lid. This frame is rendered in 3D space. No data is ever recorded, saved, or transmitted.

LidMotion 1.2

Requires macOS 14.0 or later.

Free and open source. Forever.
First Launch Instructions ▼
  1. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security. Scroll down and click Open Anyway for LidMotion.
  2. Allow Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions to enable the 3D effect.