| What it does | Block blue light and remove screen flicker on your Mac so you can feel better, think clearer and sleep deeper
| Live wallpaper for Mac, drawn as it plays in any of 48 palettes, with widgets, folder icons and sound to match.
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| Pricing model | Freemium
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| Pricing | Monthly $4.99/mo (after 7-day free trial), Annual $39/year (after 7-day free trial, saves 34% vs monthly), Lifetime $79 once (pay once, own forever, works on 2 computers)
| Free: 7 scenes and 11 palettes, 6 built-in vibes, clock/date/day widgets, 2 schedule rules, 8 folder icon patterns, 30 frames per second. MacScapes Pro: $9.99 launch price (24 of 25 left), then $19.99 once for up to 3 Macs. Includes all 42 scenes, 9 Living Stills, all 48 palettes, video backgrounds,
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| Key features | - Filters blue light down to 500K deep red
- Removes screen flicker with Flicker-Free Mode
- Anti-Dithering to smooth visual display
- Automated scheduling with up to six time-based steps
- Seven presets plus custom schedule options
- Runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs
- No tracking or telemetry
- Supports macOS 12 Monterey through macOS 26 Tahoe
| - 42 GPU-rendered animated scenes in 6 categories plus 9 Living Stills
- 48 color palettes with palette creator and palette-from-photo
- 14 desktop widgets (clock, calendar, weather, moon, timer, focus timer, countdown, year, battery, world clock, season, note, system, day)
- Vibes bundle a scene, palette, widgets and ambient sound saved together
- Schedule changes by time of day, sunrise/sunset, or battery status
- 10 ambient sounds (rain, ocean, fire, night, forest, café, wind, stream, brown noise, pink noise)
- 70 folder icon patterns plus patterns cut from any scene
- Lock screen synchronization with current scene
- Photo and video backgrounds with motion options
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| What makes it different | - Reaches 500K deep red, far deeper than Night Shift's 2700K limit
- Only blue light app with Anti-Dithering for Apple Silicon Macs
- Harvard-backed science: blocks blue light that delays circadian clock by 3 hours
- Produces ~58% more melatonin and ~24 min longer sleep
- Gentle automated scheduling that eases changes gradually in background
| - Drawn live on GPU rather than playing video loops, so scenes recolor instantly and the whole app is only 26 MB with all scenes included
- Everything on your desktop—wallpaper, widgets, folder icons and sound—matched and saved together as vibes
- Optimized for battery life with automatic frame rate and resolution reduction when unplugged
- No account, no tracking, no ads, with anonymous usage counts you can turn off
- Runs in Apple's App Sandbox with minimal system permissions
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 26 ▲ +2 (up) since last check | 11 ▲ +1 (up) since last check |
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