Closing the lid should feel like something.

Drape bends your desktop to the exact angle of your hinge, then gets out of the way.

Get it on the Mac App Store — $3.99

Pay once. Every Mac on your Apple Account. Updates free. Setup guide

Scroll to close the lid

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It isn’t an animation. It’s your hinge.

Most screen effects play a canned clip on a timer. Drape reads the lid angle sensor Apple already put in your MacBook and follows it exactly — stop halfway and the fold stops halfway. Push the lid back and it unfolds.

130°Wide open. Drape is doing nothing at all.
100°Capture wakes up early, so the first frame is never stale.
75°The desktop starts to give. Move this wherever you like.
0°Shut. The fold lands exactly as the lid meets the deck.

Watch it on a real Mac.

No mockup, no after-effects. A hand, a lid, and the app doing its job.

Recorded on a MacBook Pro. The lid angle drives everything you see.

Pick how it falls.

Three characters, one fold. Or ignore them and move the blur, shadow and perspective yourself.

Silk
Clean and quick, with a shadow you’d have to look for. The one to start on.
Shade
The far edge falls into the dark first. Best on a dim room and a bright desktop.
Frost
Heavy blur with white mixed through it. Closest to folding a sheet of frosted glass.

What people ask first.

So it records my screen?
It reads your screen sixty times a second and throws every frame away. Nothing is written to disk, nothing is uploaded, there is no account and no network code in the app. macOS asks for Screen Recording permission because folding your desktop means reading your desktop — there is no way around that, and you should be suspicious of anything that claims otherwise.
Can I try it before paying?
Three days, free, with everything switched on — no account, no card, no reduced version. The clock starts the first time you open it, not when you download it. When it runs out the app keeps running and the menu bar stays put; the fold just stops until you buy.
Will I notice it running?
Only when the lid moves. Drape draws nothing while your Mac is open, and stops capturing entirely a few degrees after the fold ends. It lives in the menu bar — no Dock icon, no window, no notifications.
Will it work on my Mac?
It needs macOS 14 or later and a MacBook with a lid angle sensor, which means 2019 and newer. Desktop Macs have no lid to read, so there is nothing for Drape to follow.
Why does this cost anything?
Because it is finished. The sensor is read properly over HID, the fold is a real mesh in Metal with a variable blur rather than a CSS trick, and it survives sleep, lock and an external display being unplugged mid-nap. Four ninety-nine, once.

Four ninety-nine. For life.

No subscription, no account, no upsell in six months — updates are free because there is no next version to sell you.

$3.99

Three days free first · yours for life · free updates
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · taxes calculated at checkout

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