LightBulb Alternatives

LightBulb is described as 'Background application that adjusts screen gamma, making the colors appear warmer at night, reducing strain on your eyes' and is a very popular color temperature tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to LightBulb for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Wayland apps. The best LightBulb alternative is f.lux, which is free. Other great apps like LightBulb are Redshift, Solace, Red Moon and Iris mini.

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  2. W

    waysn

     2 likes

    gamma adjustments for Wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    • Rust
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  4. Screen Shader icon

    Screen Shader

     3 likes

    Screen Shader is a chrome extension designed to tint the screen a “cozy” orange color to reduce eye strain, eye fatigue, and restore day/night balance, while also providing a wide variety of settings for everyone's different tastes!.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU
    Shades Chrome to a soothing orange color to decrease eye-strain, eye fatigue and to appease your brain's day/night cycle.
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    Iris icon
    Iris

    Reduces blue light and flicker for eye comfort, supports auto color temperature adjustment based on time, customizable modes, overlays, color and font options, docking station support, and accessible part-screen filtering for div...

    https://iristech.co
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  6. myPoint Shade icon

    myPoint Shade

     2 likes

    Stop burning your eyes! myPoint Shade is caring for your eyes' comfort.

    If you work in a dark room or struggle with eye strain and headache, myPoint will tune up your displays - this way it will care for your health and comfort.

    myPoint allows you to adjust the brightness o.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    myPoint supports both Common shade for all screens and Per screen shade.
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  7. Gamma Dimmer icon

    Gamma Dimmer

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    Dim any screen and keep color accuracy.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • RO flagRomania
    • European Union flagEU
    Gamma Dimmer screenshot 1
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  9. Nocturne icon

    Nocturne

     10 likes

    Nocturne is simple app for switching a computer to night vision mode. It has a few tricks up its sleeve: color correction, window shadow toggling, and background removal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
    Nocturne screenshot 1
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  10. DimScreen icon

    DimScreen

     6 likes

    Form 1 Hour Software by skrommel, it can dim the screen by applying a transparent gray layer on top of your opened applications

    59 DimScreen alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • US flagUnited States
    DimScreen screenshot 1
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  11. NegativeScreen icon

    NegativeScreen

     12 likes

    NegativeScreen is a Windows application allowing you to invert your screen colors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Simple Inversion
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  12. Brisync icon

    Brisync

     3 likes

    Synchronize your external monitor brightness with built-in display. Application reads current brightness of your built-in display and passes it to external monitors via DDC interface. You can adjust brightness by menu in system status bar.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  13. sunsetr icon

    sunsetr

     1 like

    Automatic blue-light filter for Hyprland, Niri, and everything Wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
    sunsetr screenshot 1
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  14. S

    SCT - Set Color Temperature

     1 like

    Setting the color temp of the screen really only requires about 40 lines of C (80 or so all inclusive). sct is a crude utility which does roughly that. I’d say exactly that, but some of the calculations aren’t actually exact.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  15. P

    PC Sun Screen

     2 likes

    This advanced Windows app allows you to alter the screen shading according to the time of day, which is great if you work outside the normal hours, or if you need a lift in the afternoon. You can set the colour tints and your awake and sleep times.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • IN flagIndia
    PC Sun Screen screenshot 1
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