Read from the hinge
The lid angle comes from the sensor built into the hinge. Nothing to wear, track or calibrate.
For Apple silicon MacBooks
Your desktop,
in perspective.
Close the lid partway and the windows lift off the desktop, held still in space while the screen turns in front of them.
Drag the lid, or scrollScroll to close the lid
110°
- Bring the lid down. Below 90° the effect starts. Above it, your Mac is just your Mac.
- The windows lift off. The wallpaper stays flat where it is, and the windows tilt away from it.
- The picture holds still. It stays put in space while the panel turns in front of it. Open the lid back up and it all goes away.
This demo needs WebGL. Watch the recording instead.
How it works
The hinge already knows.
Tilt just listens.
Drawn for your seat
The perspective is drawn for how far you sit from the screen, which you set once. That is why it reads as depth and not as an image lying down.
Two layers, not one
A still of the wallpaper lies flat behind everything. A live stream of the windows alone is drawn in front and turned.
Controls
Everything lives
in the menu bar.
No window, no dock icon. Press Esc to dismiss the effect, or open the lid back past the threshold.
- Engage below
- The lid angle the effect starts under, 40° to 120°.
- You sit about
- Your distance from the screen, 30 to 90 cm. Move this one if the effect looks too strong or too flat.
- Glass effect
- How much the far edge blurs and darkens as it leans away.
Privacy
No network
code. At all.
Tilt reads your screen to draw it in perspective. The picture is drawn on your screen and discarded: never saved, never sent.
No analytics, no crash reporting, no account, no server. It stores six settings and nothing else.
Screen Recording is the only permission it asks for. Read the privacy policy.
Try it on your lid.
Download for Mac- An Apple silicon MacBook with a lid angle sensor
- macOS 14 or later
- The built-in display. An external display does not turn, so Tilt does nothing there.