DhananjayBhosale/MacDuo

A native Swift + Metal Mac app that makes your desktop follow your MacBook lid.

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2.6 Cooling Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 14, 2026.

About the project

A native Swift + Metal macOS app that animates your desktop to follow the MacBook lid's movement, with six closing effects and fully local processing without recording the screen.

Useful for

Set up a lid-closing effect so the desktop fades as you shut the MacBook
Try the Replay effect without granting Screen Recording permission
Build the app from source for Apple silicon or Intel

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

6 stars today.
Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 20% of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 3 days old and already has 174 stars.
Top new repositories this week: #82.
About 5 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 174
Stars in a day: 6
Forks: 20
Issues and pull requests: 10
Watchers: 0
Language: Swift
License: MIT
Latest release: v0.1.14 · September 11, 2026
Created: September 10, 2026
Last push: September 11, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 13, 2026Top new repositories this week: #78

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