Tuck vs Sundown
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Tuck compared with Sundown
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| What it does | Free menu bar manager for macOS that hides rarely-used icons and reveals them on demand
| Block blue light and remove screen flicker on your Mac so you can feel better, think clearer and sleep deeper
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| Pricing model | Freemium
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| Pricing | Core app is free. Tuck Pro planned one-time price: $12 USD (not yet on sale)
| 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)
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| Key features | - Hide and show menu bar icons with click, hover, scroll or hotkey
- Keyboard search to find and jump to menu bar items
- Tuck Bar for icons hidden by the notch on MacBooks
- Visible, Hidden and Always-Hidden sections for organizing icons
- Appearance customization with tint, gradient, shadow and border
- Simple Mode for essential settings only
- Hotkeys to toggle sections and control reveal gestures
- Zen mode to hide all sections and lock reveal gestures
- Support for 20 languages
- Pro features planned: Profiles, triggers, automation, folders and per-display layouts
| - 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
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| What makes it different | - Free and open source under GPL-3.0 with no account or tracking required
- Tuck Bar recovers icons hidden by the notch on MacBooks
- Derived from and credits Thaw and Ice open source projects
| - 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
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 2 ▲ +1 (up) since last check | 26 ▲ +2 (up) since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 2 | 6 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 19 | 27 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 12 | 35 |
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