Shady puts a shade over your screen to help soothe your tired or dazzled eyes. You can use it to reduce your Mac's brightness far below the usual minimum, without any risk of damage to your screen.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac

Twilight is described as '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' and is a popular color temperature tool in the system & hardware category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Twilight for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Wayland apps. The best Twilight alternative is f.lux, which is free. Other great apps like Twilight are Redshift, LightBulb, Solace and Red Moon.
Shady puts a shade over your screen to help soothe your tired or dazzled eyes. You can use it to reduce your Mac's brightness far below the usual minimum, without any risk of damage to your screen.

Setting the color temp of the screen really only requires about 40 lines of C (80 or so all inclusive). sct is a crude utility which does roughly that. I’d say exactly that, but some of the calculations aren’t actually exact.
A Python program that calculates ambient brightness and sets screen's correct backlight using a camera.

Small GTK GUI application to set contrast, brightness and gamma for wayland compositors which support the wlr-gamma-control protocol extension. Basically this is the example from here: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/blob/master/examples/gamma-control.

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it can reduce screen brightness. as far as i know f.lux can not reduce screen brightness.