iFold Mac 1.2.1

What's new in 1.2.1

No more flicker at your working angle. If the lid sat right around the Clears at angle, a degree of hinge flex from typing could make the effect pop in and out. The effect now needs the lid a few degrees below the threshold (and steady there, unless it's clearly closing) before it starts, lets go a degree under the threshold, and is already flat at that point — so a wobble never triggers it and there's no pop on the way out.

A way back in when the icon is hidden. On a notched MacBook, macOS hides menu bar items that don't fit. Open iFold Mac again — Spotlight, Launchpad, or double-click in Applications — and the settings window appears, Quit included.

What's new in 1.2.0

Seven styles. Pick how the desktop goes as the lid comes down — Style in the menu bar popover:

• Fold — leans away from the hinge, curling toward the top (the original)
• Curl — the top edge rolls over and away, like a page curling toward the hinge
• Genie — drawn down into the hinge, the way windows minimize into the Dock
• Notch — pulled up into the notch (the real one, measured from the display) and back out when you open the lid
• Cube — one face of a cube turning with the lid
• Scale — shrinks toward the hinge and settles into the dark
• Fade — dims and drains of colour, like a display drifting to sleep

All seven ride the same spring, motion blur and frost; Silk / Shade / Frost are now looks you can layer on any style.

Under the hood. Genie and Notch use a per-pixel funnel (no stepping); each style only drives the strips it needs, so Fold costs what it did before and the rigid styles cost less. The overlay window now exists from launch so the capture stream always excludes it.

iPhone Duo's fold, for the MacBook lid you already have. iFold Mac reads the hinge angle from the built-in lid sensor and bends your live desktop as the lid comes down.

Install

1. Download ifold-mac.dmg below, open it, drag iFold Mac to Applications.
2. First launch: macOS says it can't verify the app (signed, not yet notarized). Click Done, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Or: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/iFold Mac.app"
3. Grant Screen Recording when asked, then click Relaunch in the iFold Mac window.

Requires an Apple silicon MacBook with a lid-angle sensor (M2 Air and later, 14"/16" Pro) on macOS 14+. Illustrated steps: https://ifold-mac.vercel.app

iFold Mac is free and open source. If you enjoy it, sponsoring funds the Apple Developer membership that will make the Gatekeeper step go away.

SHA-256 ifold-mac.dmg: d77a2859799b296f54b6bc67bb369062745fdcea87995842fa8ed475963fb6e0

iFold Mac 1.2.0

What's new in 1.2.0

Seven styles. Pick how the desktop goes as the lid comes down — Style in the menu bar popover:

• Fold — leans away from the hinge, curling toward the top (the original)
• Curl — the top edge rolls over and away, like a page curling toward the hinge
• Genie — drawn down into the hinge, the way windows minimize into the Dock
• Notch — pulled up into the notch (the real one, measured from the display) and back out when you open the lid
• Cube — one face of a cube turning with the lid
• Scale — shrinks toward the hinge and settles into the dark
• Fade — dims and drains of colour, like a display drifting to sleep

All seven ride the same spring, motion blur and frost; Silk / Shade / Frost are now looks you can layer on any style.

Under the hood. Genie and Notch use a per-pixel funnel (no stepping); each style only drives the strips it needs, so Fold costs what it did before and the rigid styles cost less. The overlay window now exists from launch so the capture stream always excludes it.

iPhone Duo's fold, for the MacBook lid you already have. iFold Mac reads the hinge angle from the built-in lid sensor and bends your live desktop as the lid comes down.

Install

1. Download ifold-mac.dmg below, open it, drag iFold Mac to Applications.
2. First launch: macOS says it can't verify the app (signed, not yet notarized). Click Done, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Or: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/iFold Mac.app"
3. Grant Screen Recording when asked, then click Relaunch in the iFold Mac window.

Requires an Apple silicon MacBook with a lid-angle sensor (M2 Air and later, 14"/16" Pro) on macOS 14+. Illustrated steps: https://ifold-mac.vercel.app

iFold Mac is free and open source. If you enjoy it, sponsoring funds the Apple Developer membership that will make the Gatekeeper step go away.

SHA-256 ifold-mac.dmg: ee4ed3934646ce2c93630122d91dd6f51523ce1b398c6d43d714e6661f3e6c90

iFold Mac 1.1.0

iPhone Duo's fold, for the MacBook lid you already have. iFold Mac reads the hinge angle from the built-in lid sensor and bends your live desktop as the lid comes down.

Install

1. Download ifold-mac.dmg below, open it, drag iFold Mac to Applications.
2. First launch: macOS says it can't verify the app (signed, not yet notarized). Click Done, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Or: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/iFold Mac.app"
3. Grant Screen Recording when asked, then click Relaunch in the iFold Mac window.

Requires an Apple silicon MacBook with a lid-angle sensor (M2 Air and later, 14"/16" Pro) on macOS 14+. Illustrated steps: https://ifold-mac.vercel.app

iFold Mac is free and open source. If you enjoy it, sponsoring funds the Apple Developer membership that will make the Gatekeeper step go away.

SHA-256 ifold-mac.dmg: c151a9fd59113100f06a96e6cb82e62c167c23d4c70e7cc61759b650d6935ef6

iFold 1.0.0

iPhone Duo's fold, for the MacBook lid you already have. iFold reads the hinge angle from the built-in lid sensor and bends your live desktop as the lid comes down — perspective, motion blur, shading, and a spring back to flat when you open it.

Install

1. Download iFold.dmg below, open it, drag iFold to Applications.
2. First launch: macOS will say it can't verify the app (this build is signed but not yet notarized). Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, click Open Anyway. Or from Terminal: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/iFold.app
3. Grant Screen Recording when asked, then click Relaunch in the iFold window.

Requires an Apple silicon MacBook with a lid-angle sensor (M2 Air and later, 14"/16" Pro) on macOS 14+.

Privacy

Captured frames stay in GPU memory and are dropped on sleep and lock. Nothing is written to disk or sent anywhere — the app links no networking framework. Details in the README's Privacy & security posture section.

SHA-256 iFold.dmg: 5884072bc4f2d4fe21d1a286992af0cf4a8e1ffb9258e9c6e32277dcb05acd05