ReffWu/softfold
Close the lid, and your MacBook desktop folds away softly. Follows the hinge angle with a live perspective fold and progressive blur.
About the project
A macOS utility that tracks the MacBook lid angle and softly folds the desktop away with a live perspective fold and progressive blur as you close the lid, restoring it when you open it.
Useful for
- Set up a desktop fold effect when closing the MacBook lid
- Check whether a specific MacBook model has the lid angle sensor
- Build the app from source with make build in Xcode
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 18 stars so far today, about 21 expected by the end of the day.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 6 days old and already has 85 stars.
- Top new repositories this week: #144.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 85
- Stars in a day
- 21
- Forks
- 2
- Issues and pull requests
- 4
- Watchers
- 0
- Language
- Swift
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v1.16 · September 16, 2026
- Created
- September 12, 2026
- Last push
- September 18, 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 18, 2026Top new repositories this week: #127
- September 17, 2026Top new repositories this week: #166
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