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24 alternatives to What Colour Is It? OS X Screensaver

Displays time of day as as a HEX color

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. What Colour Is It? OS X Screensaver launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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What Color Is It?▲136
See the hex color for every second of the day
2014 · its alternatives →
2
What Color Is It - screen saver▲2
Time of day as a color as a Mac screen saver
2015 · its alternatives →
3
f.lux▲1,353
Adjusts your computer's display to adapt to the time of day
2014 · justgetflux.com · its alternatives →
4
The Colour Clock▲64
What time of day - and color - is it right now?
2014 · its alternatives →
5
Hex Clock▲57
Telling the time and the corresponding hex color.
2014 · its alternatives →
6
Progress Bar OSX▲644
This is your life and it's ending ⏳ one minute at a time
2018 · progressbarosx.com · its alternatives →
7
New Tab Color Clock▲85
Shows HEX code color and time simultaneously as new tab.
2016 · its alternatives →
8
f.lux▲72
color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day
2014 · its alternatives →
9
Padbury Clock Screensaver▲404
Minimal screensaver for Mac
2015 · its alternatives →
10
Countdown Screensaver▲187
A Mac screensaver for counting down to a date
2016 · its alternatives →
11
NightTone▲121
Colored light filter, screen dimmer & brightness control
2016 · its alternatives →
12
Bauhaus Clock▲207
Elegant timepiece screensaver for macOS
2025 · bauhausclock.com · its alternatives →
13
Palette For Mac▲205
A menu bar based colour contrast analyser
2016 · its alternatives →
14
Color Peeker▲115
Color code in the menu bar
2021 · its alternatives →
15RA
Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor▲389
2020 · anfractuosity.com · its alternatives →
16
Hourglass▲211
Dynamic Mac desktop
2021 · its alternatives →
17
MultiClock Screensaver▲114
MacOS screensaver that displays the time using 24 clocks
2022 · its alternatives →
18
Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS▲166
Hi HN, in my last vacation, I built desktopcolors.com as a place to collect iconic solid background colors. Let me know what you think.
27d ago · desktopcolors.com · its alternatives →
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Chromatic ▲71
World's time, translated in color
2016 · its alternatives →
20
Colors: a screensaver▲3
A screensaver
2021 · its alternatives →
21
Screensaver Ninja▲124
Display websites through your screensaver
2015 · its alternatives →
22
Color Converter▲73
Convert HEX & RGB colors to UI- and NSColor 🎨
2018 · its alternatives →
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Color Converter▲100
Convert HEX/RGBA/HSL to code snippets from macOS menubar
2019 · its alternatives →
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Daylight – track sunrise / sunset times in your terminal▲79
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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