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24 alternatives to Lunar
Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lunar launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Lunar 2.0▲142Sync your monitor's brightness with your in-built display 🖥💡
2018 · lunar.fyi · its alternatives →
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Lunar▲9Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display
2018 · lunar.fyi · its alternatives →
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Control monitor brightness, adapt using the ambient light sensor, adjust volume, switch inputs and turn off displays without fiddling with clunky buttons.
2022 · lunar.fyi · its alternatives →
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Lunar▲10Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display
2020 · lunar.fyi · its alternatives →
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f.lux▲1,353Adjusts your computer's display to adapt to the time of day
2014 · justgetflux.com · its alternatives →
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f.lux for iOS▲596Auto adjust your iOS display based on the time of day
2015 · justgetflux.com · its alternatives →
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3D movements telling you the time to the next sunrise
2024 · apps.apple.com · 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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I love the sunlight and dread the long, dark winter evenings of Northern Europe. I often look up sunrise / sunset times and count off the days until the darkness is gone. Now I've written a terminal app for this (Mac/Linux) Features: a colorful summary of daylight times for your location; projected change over the coming days; handles NO_COLOR and a ---short flag if you dislike the output format. The location is IP-based but you can override this if you're on a VPN. Just create a terminal alias with the --loc flag. The app supports areas in the arctic / antarctic circle too.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sunrise for Mac▲526Mac app for the awesome Sunrise calendar
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · play.google.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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f.lux▲72color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day
2014 · justgetflux.com · its alternatives →
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Don't let white pages hurt your eyes
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Auto adjust brightness when switching apps for Mac
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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