Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Umbraa
Made for the hours after dark
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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Look Up for Mac▲269Reduce eye strain & exhaustion with the 20-20-20 Rule
2015 · 96problems.com · its alternatives →
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NightOwl▲320Easily toggle your Macs Dark Mode with this menubar app.
2019 · nightowlapp.co · 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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NightTone▲121Colored light filter, screen dimmer & brightness control
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Keepresso▲129Keep your Mac awake, on your terms. Free and open source
Jul 2026 · keepresso.com · its alternatives →
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Glowix▲83Keep your Mac display awake exactly when you need it
May 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A desktop app that kills the procrastination in you.
2019 · its alternatives →
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Auto adjust brightness when switching apps for Mac
2020 · github.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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my first app, a Mac menu bar utility to remind you to blink more. any feedback would be much appreciated. or make it your own and share :)
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Howdy, gang; After almost two weeks of sitting in Apple's approval queue, my new app Timebar is finally available. I think it has a pretty innovative UI feature, so I wanted to float it by Hacker News. It's a timer app that turns your Mac's menu bar into a sort of virtual hourglass. Your menu bar starts out tinted blue (or whatever colour you pick) and it slowly drains from right-to-left until your time is up. It works very well for situations where you want to keep track of time, but don't need to be super precise. The menu bar is easy to glance up at, and it doesn't take long to happen…
2013 · whimsicalifornia.com · its alternatives →
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Open source screen break timer for macOS
Jan 2026 · restnow.xyz · its alternatives →
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ExtraBar▲152Hey Hacker News The ones that know me here know that I am a productivity geek. After DockFlow to manage my Dock and ExtraDock, which gives me more space to manage my apps and files, I decided to tackle the macOS big boss: the menu bar. I spend ~40% of my day context-switching between apps — Zoom meetings, Slack channels, Code projects, and Figma designs. My macOS menu bar has too many useless icons I almost never use. So I thought to myself, how can I use this area to improve my workflows? Most solutions (Bartender, Ice) require screen recording permissions, and did not really solve my…
Dec 2025 · extrabar.app · its alternatives →
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