Nocturnal for Mac
Display dimming and Night Shift tuning tool.
By joshjon. Free and open source, GPL-3.0 licence.
This app is no longer maintained by its developer. It still installs, but it will not get updates.
Nocturnal at a glance
- Version
- 1.1.1
- Released
- 7 July 2020
- Download size
- 6.8 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Category
- Menu Bar and Notch
- Developer
- joshjon
- GitHub stars
- 318
About Nocturnal
A Dimness and Night Shift menu bar app for macOS 🌙
Screenshots

How to install Nocturnal on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for Nocturnal and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.1.1 from joshjon's own GitHub release.
- Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.
Updates to Nocturnal show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.
Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Nocturnal-1.1.1.zip (6.8 MB).
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