Screen Mercy
Pilot

For engineering and DevOps teams on Mac

Your team ships at every hour. Their screens should keep up.

ScreenMercy warms every Mac in your fleet as the sun sets and cools it as the sun rises, tuned to each person's real horizon. Less late-night glare, steadier focus, calmer eyes. One quiet utility, deployed across the whole team with nothing for engineers to configure.

Privacy-first. Zero telemetry. Deploys via Jamf, Kandji, and Mosyle. macOS native, 6 MB.

The problem

Long hours are the job. Burning out their eyes does not have to be.

Your engineers debug at midnight, answer on-call pages at 3 a.m., and stare into bright editors long after the sun is down. A cold, blue-heavy screen at those hours fights the body's own clock. The result shows up where you can least afford it: harder-won focus, restless sleep, and slower mornings on the days you need sharp thinking most.

This is not a soft problem. Evening screen light has been shown to suppress melatonin by roughly 55 percent and push the body's clock back by about an hour and a half, delaying sleep and dulling next-morning alertness (Harvard, PNAS). Across the workforce, insufficient sleep costs US employers an estimated $411 billion a year in lost productivity (RAND Europe, via Fortune).

~90 min

later sleep onset after evening LED screen use.

Source: PNAS

The solution

A screen that follows the sun, not the clock on the wall

ScreenMercy reads the real position of the sun above each engineer's horizon and shifts their display accordingly. Warm by dusk, clear by dawn, with no schedules to manage and nothing for your team to configure. It lives quietly in the menu bar and gets out of the way of deep work.

True sun position, not a fixed timer

Most tools flip at a set hour. ScreenMercy tracks the actual sun above each person's location, so the transition feels natural wherever your team works.

Zero adoption tax

This is the rare team tool with no onboarding. IT sets the defaults once, and every engineer gets a screen that just works from day one. Optional per-display and per-app control for those who want it.

Built for focus, not interruption

No popups, no nags, no break reminders. It does one thing well and never pulls your team out of flow.

Native and featherweight

A 6 MB macOS-native menu bar app. Code-signed and notarized by Apple. No background bloat, no battery drain worth noticing.

The ROI

The math is almost embarrassing

A senior engineer on a fully loaded salary near $150,000 costs roughly $1.20 a minute of productive time. A team plan runs about $2 a month per seat. If ScreenMercy helps an engineer reclaim even a few minutes of clearer focus a day, or one slightly better night of sleep a week, it has already paid for itself many times over (Develocity on developer tool ROI).

"Recover ten focused minutes a day from one engineer, and the license pays for itself in under a week."

Fatigue quietly costs employers $1,200 to $3,100 per employee per year (CDC). ScreenMercy is a rounding error against that number.

How it deploys

Five minutes from purchase to whole-fleet rollout

ScreenMercy was built to be deployed, not babysat. Push a signed, notarized package through your existing MDM, apply your preferred defaults, and you are done. No per-user accounts, no Apple ID juggling, no manual installs.

Works with

JamfKandjiMosyleApple Business Manager

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Trust and privacy

The quietest app your security team will ever review

ScreenMercy makes zero outbound network calls. It collects no data, creates no accounts, and runs entirely on the device. For your security and privacy reviewers, that turns a long questionnaire into a one-page pass.

Zero telemetry

No accounts, ever

On-device only

Apple notarized and code-signed

Pricing

Simple per-seat pricing. No surprises.

One quiet utility for the whole team. Compare plans by monthly seat cost, then pick monthly or annual billing.

Starter

2 to 9 seats

$2 /seat/mo

per seat / month, billed annually at $24 / seat / year

Small teams buying on a card

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Team

10 to 49 seats

$1.67 /seat/mo

per seat / month, billed annually at $20 / seat / year

Growing engineering or ops teams

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Business

50 to 199 seats

$1.33 /seat/mo

per seat / month, billed annually at $16 / seat / year

Department or company rollouts

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Enterprise

200+ seats

$1-$1.17 /seat/mo

per seat / month, billed annually at $12-$14 / seat / year

Fleet-wide rollout, invoice / purchase order, and security review support

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  • Annual billing is the best value; monthly billing is available when flexibility matters more than the lowest seat cost.
  • All plans include free updates for the license term and direct support.
  • 14-day free team pilot available on every plan. No credit card required.
  • Business and Enterprise plans support invoices, purchase orders, vendor onboarding, and security review.
  • Custom contract terms are available case by case for larger Business and Enterprise rollouts.

Give every screen on your team a little mercy

Start a free 14-day pilot for your whole team. No credit card, no commitment. If it does not earn its keep, walk away.

No credit card required. Cancel anytime.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

How is this different from the free Night Shift built into macOS?

Night Shift is a basic built-in feature with a limited warmth range, limited scheduling, no team deployment story, and no per-display or per-app control. Some users also report that it behaves inconsistently after sleep, updates, or display changes. ScreenMercy is purpose-built for deeper screen comfort: real sun-position timing using optional macOS Location Services or manually entered coordinates, richer controls, and a team-ready deployment path.

How do we deploy it across our fleet?

Push the signed, notarized package through Jamf, Kandji, Mosyle, Intune, or another MDM that supports macOS package deployment. A single license key or pre-activation file covers the team. Most fleets are live in under an afternoon.

What data does ScreenMercy collect?

None. There are no accounts, no analytics, and no outbound network calls. Everything runs on the device.

Can IT pre-configure settings for everyone?

Yes. IT sets fleet-wide defaults through a managed configuration profile, so your team gets a screen that works correctly from the first launch.

Do you offer invoicing and a contract?

Yes. Business and Enterprise plans support invoices, purchase orders, vendor onboarding, and security review. Custom contract terms are available case by case for larger Business and Enterprise rollouts.

Do employees have to share location?

No. Auto-location is optional. Employees can type coordinates manually and never grant macOS Location Services permission. Either way, location is only used locally for solar calculations and is not transmitted by the product app.