nightbar v1.0.0

First release of nightbar — a menu bar app for controlling Night Shift on macOS.

Download

nightbar-v1.0.0-macos-arm64.zip

• Requires: macOS 14 Sonoma or newer · Apple Silicon (arm64)

Install

1. Download and unzip
2. Move `nightbar.app` to `/Applications`
3. First launch: right-click → Open (the build is ad-hoc signed, not notarized — macOS will warn)
   • Or run: `xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/nightbar.app`

A moon icon appears in the menu bar — click it.

Features

• Toggle Night Shift on/off
• Color temperature slider with live preview (cool → warm gradient)
• Schedule: Off / Sunset-to-Sunrise / Custom (with editable times)
• Quick-on presets: 1 hour, Until sunrise (auto-off)
• Dimness overlay (darker-than-dark) across all screens
• Prevent display sleep while Night Shift is on
• Global hotkey: ⌥⌘N
• Launch at login

Notes

nightbar uses the private `CoreBrightness.framework` (`CBBlueLightClient`) — the same API Apple's own Night Shift UI uses. Because of this, it cannot be sandboxed or distributed via the Mac App Store.

Checksum

```
SHA-256: a3c31b86a1b0a34a068439105261f29c6ca2dc1ac374014dddcf43d9167ba5b7
```

Build from source: `make build && make run` (requires Xcode CLT + `brew install xcodegen`).