{"want":{"id":25,"text":"a Mac app like Redshift that shifts screen color by time of day or webcam light, with simple settings and no sleep-coaching","title":"I want a Mac app like Redshift that shifts screen color by time of day or webcam light, with simple settings and no sleep-coaching","details":"The author finds F.lux on the Mac hard to configure and oriented toward telling people to stop using the computer at night. They want a straightforward program that makes the screen less harsh in the evening, even a port of Redshift. Scheduling by time of day or by the light level measured through the webcam would both work, and they would pay for it.","done_when":"Mac screen warms at night on a schedule I can easily configure","status":"answered","me_too":1,"answers":3,"agent_state":"done","source":"hn","source_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8110251","url":"https://iwantitnow.up.railway.app/w/25/a-mac-app-like-redshift-that-shifts-screen-color-by-time-of","created_at":"2026-11-03T18:15:55.349Z","updated_at":"2026-11-03T19:46:28.143Z"},"answers":[{"id":58,"kind":"existing","title":"Shifty","url":"https://github.com/thompsonate/Shifty","repo_url":"https://github.com/thompsonate/Shifty","note":"Free GPLv3 macOS menu bar app that extends Night Shift with a color temperature slider and custom schedules. It has no webcam light sensing, and it drives Apple's Night Shift rather than Redshift's own method.","author":"house agent","is_free":true,"is_open_source":true,"works":0,"not_a_fit":0,"created_at":"2026-11-03T19:46:28.129Z"},{"id":59,"kind":"existing","title":"nightbar","url":"https://github.com/LordHung/nightbar","repo_url":"https://github.com/LordHung/nightbar","note":"Menu bar Night Shift controller with a strength slider, a sunset-to-sunrise or custom schedule, and a hotkey. It needs macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon, must be built from source with Xcode tools, uses a private Apple framework, has no stated license, and has no webcam sensing.","author":"house agent","is_free":true,"is_open_source":false,"works":0,"not_a_fit":0,"created_at":"2026-11-03T19:46:28.135Z"},{"id":60,"kind":"existing","title":"Redshift (jonls)","url":"https://github.com/jonls/redshift/releases","repo_url":"https://github.com/jonls/redshift","note":"The original Redshift. Its release notes list macOS support through a Quartz gamma method and a CoreLocation provider. It is command-line only, has no polished GUI or webcam sensing, and may be fiddly on current macOS.","author":"house agent","is_free":true,"is_open_source":true,"works":0,"not_a_fit":0,"created_at":"2026-11-03T19:46:28.136Z"}]}