littleDarkr for Mac
Dark-mode manager.
Free
In English
Version 3.0bWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
littleDarkr overview
Darkr supports simplicity, concentration & privacy: this simple yet powerful background-app gives you a quick light/dark-switch in the menubar, a quick mic-mute, a mac-concentration-button - and lots of options to fully control the 'dark-mode' of your mac: add personal, automated daily light/dark-times (yours or through local sun / moon-position), switching-sounds, -hotkeys or just only darken/lighten the colors of your macs windows. An 'attention'-option let you gain concentration by reducing distracting eye-candy / macOS-animations to an absolute minimum. Besides a simple mic-mute-button a 'privacy'-option lets you significantly strengten the boot- & sleep-security of your mac (use carefully!). This little tool is ideally suited for power-users, does not track you - and is completely free (donationware).
Features:
- Dark-/Light-Switch in the menubar: quick-toggle light- / dark-mode *middle-click*
- opened app: control dark-mode through a 'switching'-companion (choose one with different switching-sounds)
- Animal, right eye: toggle dark-mode (and back to usual)
- Animal, left eye: toggle only dark / light *windows*-colors (and back to usual)
- Automation-buttons: program your personal dark/ light-clock (automated dark-/light-switching)
- Hotkey-Button: individual darkmode-hotkey
- Attention-Button: disable / reduce and re-enable MacOS-Animations
- Security-Button: strengten boot- & sleep-security of your mac.
- Microphone-Mute: quick solution to disable / enable microphone input now (deep-locking in future releases)
What’s new in version 3.0b
Version 3.0b:
- mic-mute; ui-simplification / hidpi, eye on memory-pressure & bugfixes.
- macOS 10.12 or later (nearly all features work with 10.11+; dark/light-windows: 10.13+ (hidden beta feature)
littleDarkr for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.0b
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Jul 31 2019
Version: 2.5
Well, thanks to the developer, I decided to quit Night Owl and give littleDarkr a try. I have to wait a full day-night cycle to see how well it works with Night Shift, but here are my first impressions:
1) This is a beta, right? Or maybe even an alpha? The number is 2.6a so maybe that's a give-away. It looks like one.
2) The UI is a mess. Apple's UI guidelines have been formally published since 1986. I know - I own the book! panels can't be seen due to opacity, check boxes AND on/off sliders? Lower case menu items. Even a period? Even the .dmg file when it mounts shows the whole path to the Volumes mount point. Egad.
3) Preferences are unintelligible. And there is no help to figure them out. Even the web site isn't helpful.
I give the author credit for creating a piece of freeware that serves to enhance Apple Light/Dark modes under Mojave (and with this, even High Sierra -- what happened to El Capitan?). I figure this is an early cut to work out the technical stuff, and the UI will be cleaned up later. At least I hope that's the case!
Jul 18 2019
Version: 2.5
I find it remarkable that no other utility that manages Dark Mode can be found on MacUpdate. Particularly since I run a program called NightOwl on two of my (Mojave) Macs. Can't find it here now, nor any other Dark Mode manager. What's up with that?
Jun 15 2019
Version: 2.5
I rarely write negative reviews but every now and then I just feel I have to. This app isn't really user-friendly or intuitive at all and the GUI is kind of a mess. That alone might warrant a negative review but within a few minutes of playing around with it my whole Mac went completely dark. Not as in 'dark mode' but pitch black all over. I couldn't access my Dock, couldn't access the menu bar, folders appeared in system mode (labeled with an / and mostly not accessible) and in the end I had to force-reboot my computer to get it to work again.
Sorry, but this is not an app that I will attempt to use a second time.
UPDATE: Even the reboot didn't fix all problems! My folder are still messed up, looking liker this now! What the hell did this thing do?!? >:(
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1jw2lawg9uqtr20/Screenshot%202019-06-15%2003.46.31.png?dl=0
WHAT THE HELL?!?
Sorry, but this is not an app that I will attempt to use a second time.
UPDATE: Even the reboot didn't fix all problems! My folder are still messed up, looking liker this now! What the hell did this thing do?!? >:(
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1jw2lawg9uqtr20/Screenshot%202019-06-15%2003.46.31.png?dl=0
WHAT THE HELL?!?
Feb 6 2019
Version: 2.3
WARNING: Do not Install this Piece of Junk on your Machine, It Screwed up My Machine, I cannot get My System to Default Looks. NO WONTER APPLE STORE DOES NOT WANT IT IN STORE.
