Your Mac, in tune with
the world around you.

Solace is a Mac menu bar app that adapts your screen's appearance, warmth, and wallpaper, so your Mac always feels right.

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MEET SOLACE

One app. Always in sync.

It lives in your menu bar. It watches the sun. It reads the weather. And it keeps your screen in harmony with the world outside.

SOLAR SCHEDULING

Sunrise. Sunset.
Sorted.

Light mode arrives with the morning. Dark mode follows the dusk. Solace calculates exact solar times for your location, every day, every season. Adjust the offsets to taste. Your rhythm, your rules.

Location-aware. We never receive your location.
Separate sunrise and sunset offsets
Recalculates daily as seasons change

And then, the evening.

The light softens.

So does your screen.

At the time you choose, your display gently warms. Crisp daylight fades to soft candlelight. No sudden shifts. Just a slow, natural transition.

EVENING WARMTH

Less blue light.
Better evenings.

Evening Warmth runs on its own schedule, separate from dark mode. Start it at sunset, at a time you choose, or keep it on all day. Choose your colour temperature. The transition happens gradually, from 6500K daylight to 1900K candlelight.

Adjustable colour temperature
Gradual transition. No jarring shifts.
Resets automatically at sunrise

Warm Cool

4600K

Starts at Sunset

WEATHER AWARE

Rainy Tuesday?
Your Mac already knows.

Dark mode activates when storm clouds roll in. Even at midday. Solace reads the forecast each morning and sets the day, so your screen never flickers back and forth. Choose how cloudy counts as dark, and see cloud, rain and UV at a glance, in °C or °F.

☀️ Light Mode

Weather Active

☀️ Clear · 22°C

No change expected

🌙 Dark Mode

Weather Active

⛈️ Thunderstorm · 14°C

Switched to dark mode

No other app does this.

DEMONSTRATION

See it for yourself.

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Feature	Solace	f.lux	Umbra	Nightfall	Shifty
Custom dark mode scheduling	✓	Sunset only	✕	✕	Via Night Shift
Solar times (sunrise/sunset)	✓	✓	✕	✕	✓
Colour temperature	✓	✓	✕	✕	✓
Wallpaper switching	✓	✕	✓	✕	✕
Multi-display support	✓	✕	✓	✕	✕
Weather-aware switching	✓	✕	✕	✕	✕
Keyboard shortcut toggle	✓	✕	✓	✓	✓
Actively maintained (2024+)	✓	Last update 2023	✓	✓	✓
No data collection	✓	✕	✓	✓	✓
Price	$9.99	$39	Free	Free	Free

PRICING

One app. One price.
Yours forever.

Smart switching
Follows the sun, your schedule, or the weather
Wallpaper pairs
Light and dark wallpapers across every display
Evening warmth
Blue light fades at sunset to protect your sleep
Instant toggle
One keypress to switch, from any app
Always up to date
Every future feature included, no upsells
Private by design
No analytics, no tracking. We never receive your location.

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Try every feature free for 14 days, then $9.99 once.

PRIVACY FIRST

Private by design.
No tracking, no account.

No Analytics

No analytics and no tracking in the app. Your settings stay on your Mac.

Location

We never receive your location. Solar times are worked out on your Mac.

No Account Needed

No sign-up. No email. Install and go.

Questions

Questions, answered.

The handful of things people ask before they switch to Solace.

One menu bar app that keeps your Mac in sync with the day. It switches light and dark automatically, warms the screen at night, swaps your wallpaper to match, and can turn dark on grey, overcast days. It replaces f.lux, a wallpaper switcher, and constant manual toggling.

Solace follows your local sunrise and sunset, and you can move either one up to 2 hours earlier or later. It can also switch to dark on overcast days with weather-aware switching, and you can toggle instantly with a keyboard shortcut. How to schedule dark mode on Mac

Yes. Evening Warmth eases your screen from cool daylight (6500K) to warm candlelight (1900K), from sunset, from a time you choose, or all the time. While it is on, Solace takes over from Night Shift and hands it back afterwards, with a Compatibility Mode for the newest Macs.

Yes. Set a light wallpaper and a dark one, and Solace swaps them across all your displays the moment the mode changes. How to change your Mac wallpaper automatically The best wallpaper apps for Mac, compared

Solace has no account, no tracking and no analytics, and we never receive your location. Your Mac uses it to find sunrise and sunset, to look up your city name with Apple and, if you turn on weather, to check Apple's WeatherKit.

Every feature is free to try for 14 days. After that it is a one-time $9.99: no subscription, no in-app purchases, and free updates. It needs macOS 13 Ventura or later and runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, at around 3 MB.

Yes. Download Solace and every feature is free for 14 days, with no card needed. When the trial ends, Solace pauses until you buy it and keeps all your settings. You can add your licence key any time: right-click the Solace menu bar icon, choose Settings, then Enter Key under Free Trial.

Let your Mac adapt.

One-time purchase. No subscription. Yours forever.

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Your Mac, in tune with
the world around you.

One app. Always in sync.

One wallpaper
for the day.

Another one
for the night.

Sunrise. Sunset.
Sorted.

Less blue light.
Better evenings.

Rainy Tuesday?
Your Mac already knows.

See it for yourself.

One app instead of four.

One app. One price.
Yours forever.

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