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Life & fun · January 28, 2019

NightOwl

Easily toggle your Macs Dark Mode with this menubar app.

NightOwl launched on January 28, 2019 with 320 votes, #37 of 2,587 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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In plain words

NightOwl is a menubar app for Mac that toggles dark mode on and off. It offers scheduled toggling, sunset and sunrise-based automatic switching, quick-toggle functionality, and the ability to exclude specific apps from dark mode. The app is designed for users who prefer dark mode during evening hours. NightOwl requires macOS Mojave or later.

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From the sources

NightOwl is a small menubar app which toggles your Macs dark mode. Scheduled toggling, sunset/sunrise based toggling, quick-toggling and the ability to exclude certain Apps from Dark Mode makes NightOwl the perfect app for nocturnal people! * MacOS Mojave is required

NightOwl - Easily Toggle the Dark Mode

NightOwl will toggle the Dark/Light Modes based on your chosen time. You only have to set it up once, then it will run in the background. Want your Mac to be in Dark Mode during night and switched back to Light Mode, when the sun rises? NightOwl does the work for you. It only takes you a second to switch between Mojaves Dark/Light Modes by using the Hotkeys. Press, "Huuhuuhhh", dark. - that easy NightOwl allows you to easily manage which of your Apps should stay light, while your system runs in Dark Mode. It's a really neat way to stop yourself from constantly switching between Dark and Light Mode and stay better focused on your work in Dark Mode. You can master Dark Mode per App and choose…from nightowlapp.co

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