Your Mac, in tune with
the world around you.

Solace is a Mac menu bar app that adapts your screen's appearance, warmth, and wallpaper, so your Mac always feels right.

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MEET SOLACE

One app. Always in sync.

It lives in your menu bar. It watches the sun. It reads the weather. And it keeps your screen in harmony with the world outside.

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WALLPAPERS

One wallpaper
for the day.

Your light mode wallpaper greets you each morning. Bright, crisp, tuned to the hour. Solace sets it before your eyes open.

Light
Dark
SOLAR SCHEDULING

Sunrise. Sunset.
Sorted.

Light mode arrives with the morning. Dark mode follows the dusk. Solace calculates exact solar times for your location, every day, every season. Adjust the offsets to taste. Your rhythm, your rules.

  • Location-aware. Never leaves your Mac.
  • Separate sunrise and sunset offsets
  • Recalculates daily as seasons change

And then, the evening.

The light softens.

So does your screen.

At the time you choose, your display gently warms. Crisp daylight fades to soft candlelight. No sudden shifts. Just a slow, natural transition.

EVENING WARMTH

Less blue light.
Better evenings.

Evening Warmth runs on its own schedule, separate from dark mode. Start it at sunset, at a time you choose, or keep it on all day. Choose your colour temperature. The transition happens gradually, from 6500K daylight to 1900K candlelight.

  • Adjustable colour temperature
  • Gradual transition. No jarring shifts.
  • Resets automatically at sunrise
Warm Cool
4600K
Starts at Sunset
WEATHER AWARE

Rainy Tuesday?
Your Mac already knows.

Dark mode activates when storm clouds roll in. Even at midday. Solace reads the forecast each morning and sets the day, so your screen never flickers back and forth. Choose how cloudy counts as dark, and see cloud, rain and UV at a glance, in °C or °F.

☀️ Light Mode
Weather Active
☀️ Clear · 22°C
No change expected
🌙 Dark Mode
Weather Active
⛈️ Thunderstorm · 14°C
Switched to dark mode

No other app does this.

DEMONSTRATION

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WHY SOLACE

One app instead of four.

Most people piece together separate tools that each do one thing. They don't talk to each other. Half are abandoned. Solace replaces them all.

Solace
f.lux
Colour temperature only
Umbra
Wallpaper switching only
Nightfall
Dark mode toggle only
Shifty
Night Shift control only
🔥
Evening Warmth ✓
🌅
Wallpaper Sync ✓
⛅
Weather-Aware ✓
☀️
Solar Scheduling ✓
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Feature Solace f.lux Umbra Nightfall Shifty
Custom dark mode scheduling✓Sunset only✕✕Via Night Shift
Solar times (sunrise/sunset)✓✓✕✕✓
Colour temperature✓✓✕✕✓
Wallpaper switching✓✕✓✕✕
Multi-display support✓✕✓✕✕
Weather-aware switching✓✕✕✕✕
Keyboard shortcut toggle✓✕✓✓✓
Actively maintained (2024+)✓Last update 2023✓✓✓
No data collection✓✕✓✓✓
Price$9.99$39FreeFreeFree

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PRICING

One app. One price.
Yours forever.

  • Smart switching
    Follows the sun, your schedule, or the weather
  • Wallpaper pairs
    Light and dark wallpapers across every display
  • Evening warmth
    Blue light fades at sunset to protect your sleep
  • Instant toggle
    One keypress to switch, from any app
  • Always up to date
    Every future feature included, no upsells
  • Private by design
    Runs entirely on your Mac. Zero data collection.
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Our Promise

14-Day Money-Back Guarantee

Solace is made by THEODORE HQ, and every app we make carries
the same promise: only keep it if you love it.

Full Refund

Just email us within
14 days for your refund.

No Questions

No forms, no hoops,
no friction.

Human Support

A person, not a bot,
replies within a day.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

Loved by Mac users
who care about their screen.

"I used to manually toggle dark mode twice a day. Now I forget Solace is even running. It just does the right thing, every single time."
James Mitchell Software Developer, London
"The evening warmth feature alone is worth it. My eyes feel so much better after long editing sessions. And the solar scheduling is spot on."
Sophie Laurent Photographer, Paris
"I replaced three separate apps with Solace. Weather-aware switching during overcast Portland days is genuinely brilliant. One app, everything handled."
Daniel Kim UX Designer, Portland
"Set it up in under a minute. Haven't opened it since. Would love an iOS companion app one day, but on Mac it's exactly what I wanted."
Amara Patel Product Manager, Toronto
"Finally, an app that gets multi-display right. Both my monitors switch wallpapers and appearance together. No other tool I tried could do that reliably."
Marcus Weber Data Engineer, Berlin
"I'm picky about my Mac setup. Solace nails the details. The gradual warmth transition is beautiful, and the keyboard shortcut for manual override is a nice touch."
Elena Novak Indie Developer, Melbourne
PRIVACY FIRST

What happens on your Mac
stays on your Mac.

No Analytics

Zero data collection. Zero tracking. We have no idea you exist.

Local Only

Your location stays on your device. Solar times are calculated locally.

No Account Needed

No sign-up. No email. Install and go.

Questions

Questions, answered.

The handful of things people ask before they switch to Solace.

One menu bar app that keeps your Mac in sync with the day. It switches light and dark automatically, warms the screen at night, swaps your wallpaper to match, and can turn dark on grey, overcast days. It replaces f.lux, a wallpaper switcher, and constant manual toggling.

Solace follows your local sunrise and sunset, and you can move either one up to 2 hours earlier or later. It can also switch to dark on overcast days with weather-aware switching, and you can toggle instantly with a keyboard shortcut. How to schedule dark mode on Mac

Yes. Evening Warmth eases your screen from cool daylight (6500K) to warm candlelight (1900K), from sunset, from a time you choose, or all the time. While it is on, Solace takes over from Night Shift and hands it back afterwards, with a Compatibility Mode for the newest Macs.

Yes. Set a light wallpaper and a dark one, and Solace swaps them across all your displays the moment the mode changes. How to change your Mac wallpaper automatically The best wallpaper apps for Mac, compared

Solace collects nothing about you: no account, no tracking, no analytics. Your location is used only to find sunrise and sunset and, if you enable weather, to check Apple's WeatherKit. None of your data is ever sent to us.

Every feature is free to try for 14 days. After that it is a one-time $9.99: no subscription, no in-app purchases, and free updates. It needs macOS 13 Ventura or later and runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, at around 3 MB.

Yes. Download Solace and every feature is free for 14 days, with no card needed. When the trial ends, Solace pauses until you buy it and keeps all your settings. You can add your licence key any time: right-click the Solace menu bar icon, choose Settings, then Enter Key under Free Trial.

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