crease for macOS
Driven by the hinge sensor

Your desktop folds when you do.

crease reads the real lid-angle sensor in your MacBook and folds your live desktop back as you close it — wallpaper, windows, menu bar and all. Drag below to close the lid.

Get crease → One-time purchase · Apple silicon · macOS 14+
128° lid angle
open · flatclosing · folded

In the app this dial is your actual hinge — no slider, just the lid.

How it works

A real sensor, a live desktop, one Metal fold.

Four small parts, each doing one thing. Everything runs on your Mac.

01 · Sensor

Reads the hinge

Pulls the physical lid angle straight from the MacBook's built-in lid-angle sensor — no accessibility tricks.

02 · Capture

Live desktop

Captures the screen with ScreenCaptureKit into a Metal texture, so windows and wallpaper move together in real time.

03 · Fold

Folds in Metal

Hinges the whole desktop at its bottom edge and folds it back like a foldable phone or a closing laptop lid, with a depth-of-field blur that deepens toward the top.

04 · Menu bar

Stays out of the way

Lives quietly in the menu bar. Pause, resume, or recalibrate flat to wherever your lid sits right now.

macOS14 Sonoma or later
ChipApple silicon
HardwareLid-angle sensor
PermissionScreen Recording
Private by design

Nothing leaves your Mac.

Every frame is captured, folded, and drawn on-device. crease has no account, no network, and records nothing — the desktop it shows never goes anywhere.

on-device no account no telemetry nothing recorded
Get crease

One purchase. Up to three Macs.

No subscription, no account. Pay once, download the app, and your license key works on all your Macs.

$4.99one-time
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