Nocturne
Make the menu bar clock unreadable on demand or whenever a Focus mode is on.GetMIT
Grayscale Mode
Toggle macOS grayscale from the menu bar or a shortcut, with exceptions for chosen apps.
MIT · Downloads from github.com
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- rkbhochalya
- Verified
- 2026
About Grayscale Mode
Grayscale Mode puts the system grayscale display filter one click or shortcut away, and can switch it off automatically for apps where color matters. Some people use it to make the screen less engaging and cut distraction.
The last release, 2.1.0, is from April 2020 and the project has been quiet since, so check that it works on your macOS version. The code is MIT licensed, but the README explicitly excludes images and other assets from that license.
Information
- Source code
- rkbhochalya/grayscale-mode
- License
- MIT
- Website
- github.com
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Utilities
- Evidence checked
- Tags
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/rkbhochalya/grayscale-mode
- github.com/rkbhochalya/grayscale-mode/blob/master/LICENSE
- github.com/rkbhochalya/grayscale-mode/releases
- icon.png: Rajendra Kumar Bhochalya. Copyright Rajendra Kumar Bhochalya; the README excludes images from the MIT code license.
License and artwork notices
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