Nocturne for Mac

Nocturne for Mac is an easy way to adjust your computer's display colors to suit different lighting conditions, or just to suit user preference. It wasn't exactly our cup of tea, but users who like to make these kinds of adjustments will find Nocturne to be easy to use and versatile.

The app's interface is small and sleek, with a series of checkboxes, sliders, and buttons that let users customize its performance. We started by clicking the "Switch to Night" button, which enabled Nocturne's default night setting: a monochrome inversion of our current settings. In other words, black became white, white became black, and everything else was rendered in shades of gray. Unchecking the "Monochrome" box maintained the inverted black and white but also inverted all the other colors; checking the "Invert hue" box leaves black and white as they are but inverts all the colors on the screen. If you'd prefer to tint your screen to a specific color, Nocturne can handle that, and there are also tools that let you invert the menu bar and dim the menu bar when it's inactive. The program didn't have any documentation that we could locate, but its features were easy enough to figure out with a bit of experimentation. Overall, we prefer the original rendering of our screen's colors no matter the lighting, but if you'd like to try out some other configurations, Nocturne for Mac is a great way to do it.

Nocturne for Mac installs and uninstalls without issues.