Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Sol
Become more mindful of your time
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Sol launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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Solis▲74Know when it gets dark in any city around the world 🌅 🌎
2017 · solisapp.xyz · 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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Daylight▲149Simple app that tells you when the days are getting longer.
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Dawn▲242A minimal, elegant calendar to manage events & reminders
2018 · enulus.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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SunTimes▲85See the time of sunrise and sunset all around the world.
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Rizon▲148Find the best time to take photos outside in natural light
2015 · reiseversicherung.de.com · its alternatives →
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A compass that shows landmarks, sunrise/sunset + golden hour
Jan 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Never miss a great sunset with evening light forecasts
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Pocket Sky▲80A wearable that helps your mood through light
2019 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Tinyclouds▲217An adorable new weather app for iPhone and iPad
2018 · tinyclouds.co · its alternatives →
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Sunshine▲152A simpler, personal, more accurate mobile weather experience
2015 · thesunshine.co · its alternatives →
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Helios▲100Always know when's the best time to take pictures outside 🌆📸
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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