A little depth, every time you close your MacBook. Perspective, variable blur and soft shadows follow the hinge in real time.
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Post a Reel, get 100% back →Bendover reads the hinge angle 60 times a second.
Perspective, blur and shadow on sliders. Follow the lid, or set the angle yourself.
Drag to see the effect at any angle. Preview on Desktop shows it full-screen while this window stays on top.
Perspective, variable blur and soft shadows respond to your lid.
No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry. Bendover sits in the menu bar and waits for the hinge.
The desktop moves with the actual lid angle, smoothed like a real hinge. Stop halfway and it stays halfway.
Bendover redraws the display on the GPU. Nothing is recorded, saved or uploaded. The only network call is the license check.
Perspective, blur and shadow sliders, a working-angle setting so it never kicks in while you type, and a live preview so you can tune it without closing anything.
Runs on up to three Macs. Updates come from the app itself.
Drag it to Applications, allow Screen Recording once, close the lid.
Not for Mac mini, iMac or Mac Studio. No lid, no bend.
It only renders while the lid is moving; the rest of the time it's idle in the menu bar. Pause it any time from the menu.
The App Store sandbox doesn't allow reading the lid-angle sensor. Bendover is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized, so macOS opens it like any other app.
The effect plays on the built-in display only. External monitors are left alone.
No. Bendover is an independent app and is not affiliated with Apple. Apple, MacBook and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc.