Reads the lid angle
The built-in hinge sensor, over IOKit HID. No permission, about 30 times a second.
The iPhone Duo fold, for your Mac
Hold your desktop at an angle.
Angler reads your MacBook's lid-angle sensor and tilts your desktop in real 3D as you close the lid, with progressive blur and depth. It's the iPhone Duo fold, on the Mac you already own. Watch it fold.
$5.99 once · free 24-hour trial · macOS 13+ · Intel and Apple silicon
A real capture: the desktop holds its angle and folds in 3D as the lid closes.
No Dock icon
Lives in the menu bar
Screen stays local
Frames never leave your Mac
No accelerometer
Reads the hinge sensor
Clickable apps
Overlay never steals focus
See it move
See it in action
Watch Angler fold a real desktop. It is exactly what the app does live to your screen.
Shot on a phone, folded live
What it does
A real fold, from your own hinge
The lid-angle sensor sets the angle, a Metal shader warps the picture, and progressive blur adds the depth. Pick your source and go.
Warps in Metal
A GPU shader moves pixels in a true projective transform, so your desktop holds its ground as the display tilts.
Blur and depth
Layered Gaussian blur softens the top edge more than the hinge, with vignette, desaturate, dim, and chromatic aberration on top.
Live Desktop
Warps your real screen with ScreenCaptureKit, live. Frames stay in memory and are never written to disk. Needs Screen Recording permission.
Uploaded Wallpaper
Point it at any PNG, JPEG, or HEIC and it warps that instead. Works fully offline, with no permission at all.
It lives in the menu bar, no Dock icon, and clicks pass straight through to your apps. Set an activation angle, auto-anchor when you stop moving, and a jitter deadband so small shakes are ignored.
Questions
Good to know
How much does Angler cost?
$5.99, once. No subscription. One purchase unlocks Angler on up to 3 of your Macs, and it keeps working offline. You buy on this page, and your license key arrives by email.
Is there a free trial?
Yes, a full-featured 24-hour trial, with no key and no card needed. When it ends, the effect locks until you enter a license key. Your settings stay put.
Which Macs work with Angler?
Almost every MacBook running macOS 13 or newer, Intel or Apple silicon. The lid angle sensor is built into MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models from 2019 onward, and Angler runs on all of them. If you are on macOS 13+, you are very likely already covered.
Does it record or upload my screen?
No. Everything happens on your Mac. In Live Desktop mode the screen frames are warped in memory, then thrown away. They are never saved to disk and never uploaded. Nothing about your screen, your wallpaper, or your lid angle ever leaves your computer.
Why does it ask for Screen Recording?
Only Live Desktop mode needs it, so it can read your desktop and warp it. Prefer to skip permissions entirely? Switch to Uploaded Wallpaper mode, where nothing is requested at all and the effect works exactly the same.
Screen Recording is already on, but it still asks. Why?
macOS sometimes keeps a Screen Recording grant tied to an older copy of an app and won't apply it to the new one, so the switch looks on but capture still asks. The fix: in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording, turn Angler off and back on, then quit and reopen Angler. If it persists, email support@getanglerapp.com and we will send a one-click reset.
Can I still click my apps while it's on?
Yes. The overlay passes clicks through and never takes keyboard focus, so your real apps keep working underneath. Only the image is transformed, not the click targets.
How do I quit it?
Three ways: the menu-bar item's Quit Angler, the button in Settings, or the system-wide shortcut ⌃⌥⌘Q from anywhere, even with the overlay covering the screen. One key combo and it is gone.
How do I uninstall Angler?
Quit Angler (menu-bar item → Quit Angler, or ⌃⌥⌘Q), then drag Angler from your Applications folder to the Trash. That is it. It removes its own Launch-at-Login entry, and it never installs anything outside its own app. To also clear its settings, remove ~/Library/Preferences/dev.octagon.angler.plist.
Is it safe to run?
Yes. Angler runs entirely on your Mac and is notarized by Apple, so macOS checks it and opens it cleanly the first time. It only touches what the effect needs: the lid angle sensor and, if you use Live Desktop, the screen frames it keeps in memory. Nothing else.
Get Angler
Give your desktop some depth
Download the app, drag it to Applications, and look for 105° in your menu bar. It works on Intel and Apple silicon Macs running macOS 13 or newer.
24-hour free trial · up to 3 Macs · works offline · macOS 13+ · runs on Intel and Apple silicon.
