Screen Mercy
Pilot

For design, photo, video, and creative teams on Mac

Comfort on the long edits. Accurate color the instant you need it.

ScreenMercy warms your screen through the evening to ease long hours of work, and steps aside the moment color accuracy matters. Set per-app rules so your color-critical tools always render true, pause everything with a single keystroke, and tune each display on a multi-monitor setup independently.

Per-app rules. Per-display control. One-key pause. Zero telemetry.

The problem

Most screen-warming tools force a choice creatives should never have to make

Creative teams work some of the longest evening hours of any function, and the toll of late screen time is the same for them as for anyone: shifting your screen toward warmer tones in the evening eases light load and supports your natural wind-down, while bright, cool light late at night does the opposite (on warm versus cool light and melatonin, Teran et al. 2026, Scientific Reports). The catch is obvious. A tool that warms your screen also shifts your color, and for a colorist, retoucher, or designer, that is unacceptable when the work is color-critical. So creatives turn these tools off entirely and lose the benefit on every other hour of the day.

That is a false choice. The right tool warms the screen when color does not matter and disappears the instant it does.

One key

pauses warming instantly for color-critical work.

Per-app

rules keep your color tools rendering true, automatically.

Per-display

control tunes each monitor independently on multi-screen setups.

The solution

Built to respect color-critical work

ScreenMercy gives creative teams the control that generic night modes do not. It warms the screen through the evening for comfort, and hands you precise, instant ways to protect any moment that depends on accurate color.

Per-app rules

Tell ScreenMercy to leave your color-critical applications untouched. Your editing, grading, and design tools always render at their true color, automatically, while everything else stays comfortable.

Per-display control

On a multi-monitor setup, warm your reference and reading displays while keeping your color-critical monitor exactly as calibrated. Each screen is tuned independently.

One-key pause

A single hotkey pauses all warming the instant you need to judge color, then resumes when you are done. No menus, no friction, no second-guessing what your eyes are seeing.

The value

The comfort of warming, without the compromise

Because ScreenMercy respects color work by default, your creative team actually keeps it on, which means they get the benefit on every long evening instead of switching it off and forgetting it. It runs roughly $16 to $24 per seat per year, and less at volume. For a team whose eyes are their instrument and whose hours run late, that is a small, thoughtful investment in the people doing the most demanding visual work in your company.

The per-app and per-display controls are part of the paid Pro tier. For color-critical teams, that control is the entire point.

Trust and privacy

A team tool that respects your work and your privacy

ScreenMercy makes zero outbound network calls and collects no data about your team or what they create. There is no dashboard, no tracking, no account. It is a calm utility that does one thing well and asks for nothing in return.

No data collected

Zero telemetry

On-device only

Apple notarized

Pricing

Per-seat pricing, with the Pro controls creatives need.

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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Reference price

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

Contact us
  • 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.

Comfort all evening, true color on demand

Start a free 14-day pilot with your creative team. Set per-app rules, try the one-key pause, and judge it on your own color work. No credit card, no commitment.

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.

Is this another app our people have to learn?

No. There is nothing to open, log into, or maintain. Once it is installed, it works quietly on its own.

What data does ScreenMercy collect?

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

What is the science behind it?

Evening screen light has been shown to suppress melatonin and delay sleep onset (PNAS). ScreenMercy reduces that evening light in step with the natural day, which supports the body's normal wind-down. We are careful to make sleep and circadian claims, which the science supports, and not eye-disease claims, which it does not.

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.