This product was not featured by Product Hunt yet. It will not be visible on their landing page and won't be ranked (cannot win product of the day regardless of upvotes).
I kept falling asleep to shows or YouTube on my Mac and waking up to a screen still too bright, even at the lowest setting macOS allows. There was no way to dim further, so I built Umbraa: a menu bar utility that pushes brightness well past the system floor, with warm/red tints, a fade-to-black sleep timer, and automatic sunset-to-sunrise dimming. No account, no tracking. $4, macOS 26+. For anyone who's startled awake at 3am to a screen going full blast.
Hi, I'm Andriy, the creator of Umbraa.
I built this because of a habit I never managed to break. Most nights I fall asleep to a show or a YouTube video on my Mac. It's been going on for years and it's not a great habit, because the screen has no idea I've drifted off. The episode ends, autoplay picks something new, and I wake up at 3am to a screen still going full blast in an otherwise pitch dark room. Even macOS's lowest brightness setting isn't dim enough for that, and there's no way to push it any lower.
For a long time I just dealt with it. Squinting, half-closing the lid, or hoping my girlfriend would notice and close it for me once I'd fallen asleep. Eventually I got curious why nobody had actually fixed this. Turns out macOS controls the backlight down to a hardware floor and just stops there, there's no software layer underneath it. So I built one.
Umbraa started as a weekend project just for me. A menu bar app that did the one thing I needed: dim the screen further than macOS allows. Once that worked I kept adding small things that made me actually reach for it every night instead of it staying a one-off hack:
- A dimming slider that goes well past the system minimum, with an instant preview
- Warm and Red tints for when even dim white light is too much
- A sleep timer with adjustable fade duration
- Automatic dimming from sunset to sunrise
- Works with external displays, keyboard shortcuts, launches at login
- Most recently added a "Sleep Now" button that fades straight to black on demand
No account, no logins, no tracking, nothing collected. I just wanted the thing macOS was missing.
Would love to hear if anyone else deals with this exact problem, or any feedback on what's missing.
No comment highlights available yet. Please check back later!
About Umbraa on Product Hunt
“Made for the hours after dark”
Umbraa was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #69 on the daily leaderboard. I kept falling asleep to shows or YouTube on my Mac and waking up to a screen still too bright, even at the lowest setting macOS allows. There was no way to dim further, so I built Umbraa: a menu bar utility that pushes brightness well past the system floor, with warm/red tints, a fade-to-black sleep timer, and automatic sunset-to-sunrise dimming. No account, no tracking. $4, macOS 26+. For anyone who's startled awake at 3am to a screen going full blast.
Umbraa was featured in Mac (103.7k followers), User Experience (368k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 45.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Umbraa?
Umbraa was hunted by Andriy Yezerskiy. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Want to see how Umbraa stacked up against nearby launches in real time? Check out the live launch dashboard for upvote speed charts, proximity comparisons, and more analytics.
Andriy Yezerskiy