Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Afterglow
Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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"After Dark" by Berkeley Systems was a collection of screensavers for Macintosh and Windows from early 90s; "Flying Toasters" is probably the most famous and loved among them. Using my very limited knowledge of C and X11 programming, I recreated it as a XScreensaver module for Linux. Hope you find it useful or at least amusing!
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mac Duo▲107Turn your display into frosted glass as you close the lid
18d ago · macduo.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Solace▲171macOS gives you three appearance options: Light, Dark, or Auto. Auto follows sunset, which is a surprisingly blunt heuristic. It doesn't account for season (dark mode at 3:50pm in December, light mode at 9pm in June), and it has zero awareness of actual conditions outside. Overcast and dark at 2pm? Your Mac doesn't care. The deeper problem is that macOS treats appearance, wallpaper, and colour temperature as unrelated settings. You end up stitching together separate tools that don't know about each other, or you just live with the defaults and accept the friction. Solace tries to solve this…
Feb 2026 · theodorehq.com · its alternatives →
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Bloop▲132Turn any Mac audio into a visual you can actually export
Aug 2026 · bloooooop.com · its alternatives →
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ScreenFlow 5▲152Screencasting and editing software for Mac
2014 · telestream.net · its alternatives →
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Halo▲68Dynamic Island for Mac, plus external monitor control
1d ago · halo-mac.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Palette For Mac▲205A menu bar based colour contrast analyser
2016 · often.studio · its alternatives →
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Wokyintosh▲94Turn a spare Mac display into a retro system dashboard!
23d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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FrameOS▲137Record your iOS & Android screen from your Mac.
Aug 2026 · tryframeos.com · its alternatives →
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NightTone▲121Colored light filter, screen dimmer & brightness control
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Vivid 2.0▲123Double your MacBook Pro brightness, system-wide
2022 · getvivid.app · its alternatives →
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Hi, I've been working on something I've been thinking for long time but since I had no experience with macOS screen savers I always posponed. Now thanks to Claude I was able to create a screensaver that scroll ANSI files while your computer is idle. It allow to use local ANS files or packs directly from 16colo.rs. Repo: https://github.com/lardissone/ansi-saver
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DejaVideo▲93Continuous screen recorder for Mac, jump back anytime.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Retroactive▲63Run Aperture, iPhoto, or iTunes on macOS Catalina
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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darken (or lighten) a PDF. Contribute to rootVIII/pdfinverter development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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