The MacBook on your desk has no touchscreen, and no settings menu will ever add one. Intricuit’s Magic Screen attacks the gap from outside the machine: a sheet of tempered glass that snaps onto the display with magnets, plugs in over USB-C, and gives the panel underneath a touch layer with stylus support. It is a physical fix for a hardware absence.
Setup takes seconds. The glass lines up with the display, sits flush against it, and the magnets already in the lid hold it there.
Each of the five sizes matches its display exactly, cut around the notch, so the glass tracks the panel it covers and a fingertip lands where the screen says it should.
Price: $169
Regular Price: $239
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Where to buy: Kickstarter
Touch that runs before any software does
Basic touch runs the moment the cable lands, no app required. Tap, swipe, scroll, and pinch to zoom all answer on the glass, inside any program on the machine. Intricuit’s lightweight companion app unlocks the advanced functions and the customization layer on top of that baseline. Everyday pointing gets faster too, since a finger beats hunting a cursor through photo grids, maps, and timelines.
Premium tempered glass forms the sheet, film fused on top, transparency rated at 99 percent or better. The film takes the fingerprints your display would collect.
Presenters get the obvious win. Walk a deck by tapping the screen, mark up a shared board, or sketch over a model while the room watches the same display. Nobody crowds around a trackpad.
Intricuit also demos the panel driving an iPhone Mirroring window, so taps and swipes land on iOS apps blown up to MacBook size.
A stylus that leaves the Apple Pencil in the drawer
A stylus ships in the box, and it pulls real drawing duty once the glass is on. Pressure sensitivity drives line weight, hover previews the tip position before contact, and palm rejection keeps a resting hand from smearing the canvas. One charge covers about 100 hours of work, per Intricuit.
One fence stands around stylus choice. The panel works with USI-certified styluses only, the included pen among them, and the Apple Pencil is not USI certified, so the pencil already riding in your bag stays there for good.
Off the screen, it keeps working
Pop the panel off the display and it turns into a pen tablet on the desk. Propped beside the keyboard, it becomes the drawing surface for long sessions.
The folio case braces the detached panel against the MacBook, leaning it back so the glass stops wobbling under the pen, then folds flat into a stand that holds the panel on its own. Carry works the same way: the case sticks to the laptop magnetically, so panel and machine ride through a bag as one stack.
One caution comes molded into the hardware itself. A stopper on the bottom case keeps the lid from closing past a set angle, so the glass comes off before every close.
Five sizes, and the M1 Air misses the cut
Intricuit cuts the panel in five sizes, one per display, all fitted for the notch generation. The Air line starts at the M2 chip: the 13-inch panel covers the M2, M3, M4, and M5 machines, and the 15-inch runs the same span. Pro buyers get the longer reach, with the 14-inch and 16-inch panels covering the M1 generation from 2021 forward, Pro and Max chips included. The 13-inch MacBook Neo on the A18 Pro makes the list too.
You buy by the machine on the desk, not by preference, since a 14-inch panel does not stretch onto a 16 and the Air sizes split at 13 and 15 inches, mirroring Apple’s own lineup almost model for model. Pick wrong and the glass simply does not fit.
Owners of the M1 MacBook Air are out, full stop. Intricuit says it has no plans to support older models, so the best-selling Air of its decade gets nothing.
Every box carries the full kit: the panel, the stylus, the folio case, a USB-C cable, an accessory pouch, a polishing cloth, and the manual. Manufacturing defects carry one year of coverage, and Intricuit says the overlay leaves Apple’s warranty on the machine untouched. The stylus and the panel are the product; everything else in the box supports them.
Who should care comes down to the work on the screen. Illustrators, annotators, teachers, and anyone presenting off a laptop get the input layer their machine shipped without, at the cost of a cable and a sheet of glass that lives in the bag.
The trade-offs are physical, not digital: a cable across the desk, glass that comes off before every close, and a Kickstarter campaign standing in for a store. That campaign funded in August with 1,588 backers, and its window is closed. Late pledges stay open at the $169 tier, still the only route Intricuit sells through. Shipping runs worldwide, with duties and taxes landing on the buyer at the border, and the shipping charge comes due right before orders ship.
Price: $169
Regular Price: $239
You Save: 29%
Where to buy: Kickstarter
