Solace adapts your Mac's appearance to the natural rhythm of your day with automatic light/dark mode switching based on sunrise, sunset, and weather. It's a one-time purchase app that runs silently in your menu bar.
Solace is a macOS menu bar app that quietly adapts your screen's appearance, warmth, and wallpaper to the natural rhythm of the day. Tailored for Mac users who spend long hours at their screens—like developers, designers, and photographers—Solace eliminates the need for manual toggling and replaces separate tools like f.lux and wallpaper switchers. Its core value is keeping your Mac in harmony with the world outside: light mode greets you with the sunrise, dark mode follows dusk, and the screen gently warms in the evening. This integrated approach to automatic dark mode Mac creates a consistent and comfortable visual experience across all your displays.
Many Mac users manually toggle dark mode twice a day or piece together separate apps for color temperature, wallpaper switching, and dark mode control. These tools don't communicate, half are abandoned, and none handle weather conditions. The result is inconsistency, screen glare during overcast afternoons, and disrupted focus. Solace solves this by unifying all these functions into one menu bar app. With solar scheduling and weather awareness, your Mac responds to actual environmental cues—rainy Tuesdays trigger dark mode, clear mornings bring crisp light. This seamless automation reduces decision fatigue and protects your eyes from unnecessary blue light, making every screen session more comfortable.
Solace's Solar Scheduling feature calculates exact sunrise and sunset times for your location, automatically switching between light and dark mode at the appropriate moments. Unlike simple timer-based solutions, Solace recalculates daily as seasons change, ensuring perfect timing year-round. You can adjust separate offsets for sunrise and sunset to suit your personal rhythm—perhaps dark mode a bit earlier in the evening. The scheduling is location-aware but processes entirely on your Mac, never sending your data anywhere. This feature eliminates the need to remember to toggle modes, as it works silently in the background. Combined with the ability to set different offsets for morning and evening, Solar Scheduling provides precise control while maintaining a hands-off experience.
Evening Warmth offers a gradual transition from cool daylight (6500K) to warm candlelight (1900K) on its own schedule, independent of dark mode. This feature reduces blue light exposure in the evening, helping prepare your body for sleep. The transition is smooth and natural, with no jarring shifts—your screen softly warms over minutes. You can adjust the final color temperature to your preference, from barely warm to very warm. Evening Warmth resets automatically at sunrise, so you start each day with cool, crisp whites. It runs alongside or instead of macOS Night Shift and includes a Compatibility Mode for the newest Macs. This is particularly valuable for users who work late or read in bed, as it eases eye strain without compromising visibility.
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Launch Date2026-02-28
Platformdesktop
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