Screen Colors Filter — Color Tint & Dim HEV Block for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Esmerelda2

  Nice to be able to customize filter color; easily accessible top-bar icon

  I’ve used a few other blue-light-filter night screen apps, and usually you can’t adjust the color or dimness of the screen; this one gives you a lot of choices so you can pick the one that bugs you least, and it has a dimness slider. Intuitive and easy to use - just choose on setup to put an icon shortcut on your top menu bar and it’s an easy one-click dropdown panel that doesn’t interrupt what you’re doing. I don’t think it’s hard to find as some other reviews say - maybe if you have a ton of icons up there it’s not obvious which one is the filter app. It’s a monitor icon. I’ve also never had problems with it crashing which seems to be the other major problem people have. I’m using it on a Pc laptop and maybe on your phone or iPad it’s different. Anyway on my laptop it’s been handy and easy to use. I recommend it. Save your eyes and your sleep!

  
  
• By Hdyvcdruvsehd

  Runs fine on my PC

  There are a bunch of screen dimmers out there, but most of them turn off briefly when you slide between desktops and full screen apps, momentarily blinding you. This one does not do that. There are a bunch of screen tinters out there, but most of them use what would probably be considered the “Normal” blend mode in Photoshop, which adds color to everything, including solid black. You can see it in their App Store screenshots. Black should stay black. With this app, it does. It doesn’t work when F.lux is running. No biggie, they kind of do similar things anyway. The 'Invert' option doesn’t work. No biggie, ^⌥⌘8 is already built into PC. None of the color options are quite right, unfortunately. Too green. If the pro version had a full HSL color picker, I would buy it in a heartbeat. If it let you pick a different tint for each monitor (to color match them), I would pay double. And if it let you pick a daytime tint as well as a nighttime tint (so the monitors stay color matched), and faded between them automatically like F.lux, I would pay triple. Keep it relatively bug free (not glitching out when switching desktops is a good start - keep that up) and throw in a bunch of configurable global keyboard shortcuts, and I’d have no problem throwing down a $20.

  
  
• By 4eberdesign

  Nice idea

  It installs, works and is usable. Yet the colors are not well figured out, mostly a random assortmant of yellows, reds and browns. They are not organized very well at all. Finally, I wish there were some very pale options to use during the day, for adjusting a little bit only. Good effort though over all and helpful at night.

  
  
• By girlo

  Not enough

  App does offer several color filters to use which is good. Once I made my selection and tried it for a few days I was unable to locate the area where I could select a different filter to try. I tried to remove it so I could start over again but response was cannot delete because app is open. I then searched for a way to turn it off. Very frustrating. I finally had to go through Apps>Utilities> and then select turn off. Next step, remove the app, followed by starting again. I decided it was too much trouble and am shopping for another app. Support is via Twitter, and not quick. I think this app has promise, but it needs some tweaking to suit me. Once they do that, they’ll probably charge for it, which is only fair. My 2 cents.

  
  

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