Lumen Alternatives
Lumen is described as '- magic auto brightness based on screen contents. You control Lumen simply by using your brightness keys - it'll automatically learn your preferences' and is a Screen Dimmer. There are more than 25 alternatives to Lumen for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Android Tablet. The best alternative is f.lux, which is free. Other great apps like Lumen are Redshift, LightBulb, Gammy and RedshiftGUI.
Lumen alternatives are mainly Color Temperature Tools but may also be Screen Dimmers or Health Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Lumen.
- Free • Proprietary
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Software that makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
Redshift adjusts the color temperature according to the position of the sun. A different color temperature is set during night and daytime.
LightBulb is an application that reduces eye strain produced by staring at a computer screen when working late hours. As the day goes on, it continuously adjusts gamma, transitioning the display color temperature from cold blue in the afternoon to warm yellow during the night.
Adaptive screen brightness and temperature for Windows and Linux.
Discontinued
The project is no longer being worked on and the repository has been archived
RedshiftGUI changes the color temperature of your monitor to better match that of your surrounding. This means that it sets a cooler color temperature during the daytime (due to natural lighting) and sets a warmer temperature at night (due to indoor lighting). Similar to f.
Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.4, released in August 2014, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
Adjust the brightness of all monitors, screens and displays.
The app filters the blue spectrum on your phone or tablet after sunset and protects your eyes with a red filter. The filter intensity is smoothly adjusted to the sun cycle based on your local sunset and sunrise times.
Iris mini is free and minimalistic version of Iris. Small. Minimalistic. Free. Portable. Automatic. Awesome for everyone. Just double click and it will work.
To schedule Night Light so it turns on automatically, select Start > Settings > System > Display > Night light > Night light settings.
Enable darker-than-dark dimming for internal and external screens.
Discontinued
The last commit to the project is from November, 16 2017 and it gave some users a bunch of deprecation errors when they tried to install and run it.
