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Luma

Luma is a Mac menu-bar app that warms and dims the screen at night. It follows a sunset-to-sunrise schedule and gives me one-click pause and reset.

Cuts blue light
warmer night screen
Sunset → sunrise
automatic schedule
One-click reset
back to true color
Native arm64
no Rosetta / no server
§01The workLive system
Luma
SwiftUI MenuBarExtra

Warm and dim the screen from the menu bar.

Luma's macOS menu-bar panel showing the day-to-night arc, strength presets, and warmth, brightness, and dim sliders.
The workThe menu-bar panel: day-to-night arc, strength presets, and warmth, brightness, and dim sliders.
§02The pipelineEnd-to-end flow
Why I built it

I wanted a small native app for night work.

I use a warmer, dimmer screen at night to cut blue light and make late work easier on my eyes. The paid utility I had used for years was still Intel-only and ran through Rosetta on my...

How it works

Warm the screen, dim it, and reset it fast.

Warmth is applied through the display curve.

Shipping it

Signed, notarized, and a short list of what's next.

The public release ships as a Homebrew cask plus downloadable DMG and ZIP files. v0.1.5 is Developer ID signed and Apple-notarized, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

§03What I builtPieces that compound

I use a warmer, dimmer screen at night to cut blue light and make late work easier on my eyes. The paid utility I had used for years was still Intel-only and ran through Rosetta on my...

Warm the screen, dim it, and reset it fast.

Warmth is applied through the display curve.

Signed, notarized, and a short list of what's next.

The public release ships as a Homebrew cask plus downloadable DMG and ZIP files. v0.1.5 is Developer ID signed and Apple-notarized, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

Cuts blue light

Cuts blue light is the lead proof point for warmer night screen.

Sunset → sunrise

Sunset → sunrise is the lead proof point for automatic schedule.

One-click reset

One-click reset is the lead proof point for back to true color.

§04StackEvery tool earns its line
SwiftUI / UISwift 6 / LanguageAppKit / Menu bar + overlayCoreGraphics / Gamma tablesServiceManagement / Launch at loginCarbon / Global hotkeysmacOS 14+ / Target
§05ArtifactsReceipts and public proof

The repo and the signed release.