Your Mac's appearance, in tune with the world around you.
Solace lives in your menu bar and adapts your Mac's appearance to the day. Solar scheduling, weather-aware dark mode, wallpaper sync, and evening warmth, all in one app. No data collection. One-time purchase; $4.99.
I built Solace because macOS dark mode kept getting it wrong on my Mac.
Apple gives you three options: Light, Dark, or Auto. Auto follows sunset, which sounds reasonable until you live somewhere where dark mode kicks in at 3:50 PM in December while still blasting light mode at 9 PM in June. There's no way to adjust the timing with no awareness of what's actually happening outside.
I looked for something that handled all of this together and couldn't find it. Most tools solve one piece: a wallpaper scheduler here, a screen warmer there, a dark mode toggle somewhere else. Nothing connected them. So I built Solace. It's a single menu bar app that coordinates everything your screen does in response to the world around it:
- Solar scheduling that recalculates daily as seasons change, with custom offsets so you're not locked to exact sunrise/sunset times.
- Weather-aware switching, so if it's dark and overcast at 2 PM, dark mode kicks in early. This is the feature I haven't found in any other app.
- Wallpaper sync which pairs a light and dark wallpaper, they swap automatically across all displays when your appearance changes.
- Evening warmth so you get gradual colour temperature shift as night approaches, integrated with your dark mode schedule rather than running separately.
- Global keyboard shortcut for when you just want to override everything.
On pricing and privacy: $4.99, one time, forever. No subscription. Zero analytics, zero telemetry. Your location data never leaves your Mac. Built natively with Swift and SwiftUI for macOS 13+. Sits in your menu bar, stays out of your way.
I've been using it daily on my own Mac for months. It's the kind of tool where you set it once and then forget it's there, which is exactly what I wanted.
I'm curious: how do you currently handle the light/dark switch on your Mac? Do you just leave it on Auto and live with the timing, or have you found a workaround?
