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24 alternatives to What Color Is It - screen saver

Time of day as a color as a Mac screen saver

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. What Color Is It - screen saver launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   What Colour Is It? OS X Screensaver▲5

   Displays time of day as as a HEX color

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   The Colour Clock▲64

   What time of day - and color - is it right now?

   2014 · thecolourclock.co.uk · its alternatives →

3. 3
   NightTone▲121

   Colored light filter, screen dimmer & brightness control

   2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Screensaver Ninja▲124

   Display websites through your screensaver

   2015 · expireddomains.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Saver▲100

   Geometric screensavers for Mac

   2015 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Padbury Clock Screensaver▲400

   Minimal screensaver for Mac

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   f.lux▲72

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

   2014 · justgetflux.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Screen Tint▲82

   Reduce the brightness of your Mac’s screen

   2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   What Color Is It?▲136

   See the hex color for every second of the day

   2014 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Clock.saver▲145

    A simple clock screensaver based on Braun watches ⌚

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Countdown Screensaver▲187

    A Mac screensaver for counting down to a date

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    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 →

13. 13
    Weather Screen▲113

    Bring Real-time Weather Effects to your Mac Screen

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Hourglass▲211

    Dynamic Mac desktop

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Chromatic ▲71

    World's time, translated in color

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Screens 4.0▲95

    Control your Mac from anywhere in the world

    2017 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    MultiClock Screensaver▲114

    MacOS screensaver that displays the time using 24 clocks

    2022 · amiantos.s3.amazonaws.com · its alternatives →

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    Color View Finder▲94

    Real time color palette from your iphone camera

    2015 · colorviewfinder.co · its alternatives →

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    Palette For Mac▲205

    A menu bar based colour contrast analyser

    2016 · often.studio · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Day-O▲131

    Simple menu bar clock replacement w/ calendar for your Mac

    2014 · shauninman.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Shade▲105

    Super easy color contrast insights and recommendations

    2017 · halogensoftworks.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Day Night for macOS▲187

    A desktop app that kills the procrastination in you.

    2019 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Color Binoculars by Microsoft Garage▲81

    Help color blind individuals distinguish between colors

    2016 · microsoft.com · its alternatives →

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    Clocks▲162

    A minimal world clock app for your Mac's menubar

    2014 · its alternatives →

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