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24 alternatives to FlexBright

Change brightness by time of day

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. FlexBright launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Flexbright▲4

   Change the iPhone brightness by the time of day

   2016 · intelligentappsinc.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Light App▲83

   Change the lighting for your photos from day/night

   2014 · hoarelea.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   f.lux for iOS▲596

   Auto adjust your iOS display based on the time of day

   2015 · justgetflux.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   f.lux▲1,353

   Adjusts your computer's display to adapt to the time of day

   2014 · justgetflux.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Daylight▲149

   Simple app that tells you when the days are getting longer.

   2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Sunrise for iPad▲133

   Sunrise for iPad, Week view and background sync

   2014 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Single Clock▲137

   Set reminders, forget time zones!

   2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   f.lux▲72

   color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day

   2014 · justgetflux.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Sol▲83

   Become more mindful of your time

   2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Day Night▲207

    A desktop app that kills the procrastination in you.

    2018 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Brilliance▲260

    f.lux for Philips Hue bulbs

    2016 · brilliance.site · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Golden Hour by Exposure▲74

    iOS app to sunrise and sunset

    2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Sun▲120

    Beautiful weather forecast powered by Dark Sky

    2016 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Moonlight▲82

    Dim your web browser down past Apple's lowest settings

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Sunshine▲152

    A simpler, personal, more accurate mobile weather experience

    2015 · thesunshine.co · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Menubar Auto Brightness▲100

    Auto adjust brightness when switching apps for Mac

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Adjust page brightness ▲117

    Automate your screen comfort with custom brightness website

    2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Hours▲116

    Visual time tracking app

    2014 · hourstimelord.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Lumen▲185

    Magic auto brightness based on screen contents

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    DayNight▲112

    Daytime & nighttime awareness for the blind 🌚 🌞

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Day Night for macOS▲187

    A desktop app that kills the procrastination in you.

    2019 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Solace▲171

    macOS 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 →

23. 23NT
    New time and daylight application▲150

    2016 · chronozone.xyz · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Solis▲74

    Know when it gets dark in any city around the world 🌅 🌎

    2017 · solisapp.xyz · its alternatives →

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