Riskier
decisions and reduced loss-sensitivity under sleep deprivation.
Source: NatureFor trading desks, treasury, and finance teams
Markets do not sleep. Your traders should not pay for it.
ScreenMercy warms your desk's screens through late and overnight sessions, tuned to each trader's real horizon, easing the eye strain of long hours watching the tape. It is a quiet, fleet-wide tool with nothing to configure and no data leaving the device.
Privacy-first. Zero telemetry. No network calls. Clears a security review on the first read.
The problem
Sleep-impaired judgment is a risk-management problem
Trading and finance teams work across global market hours, which routinely means late sessions and overnight watching. The research on what that does to decision-making should worry any desk head. Sleep deprivation pushes people toward riskier choices while dulling their sensitivity to losses, the exact opposite of disciplined risk management (Nature). Studies of traders specifically have linked poor sleep to lower returns and skewed risk-taking (The Conversation, on sleep-deprived trader returns).
A cold, blue-heavy screen late at night is one input you can actually control. It strains the eyes through long sessions and disrupts the sleep that judgment depends on.
Lower
trading returns linked to poor sleep among traders.
Source: The Conversation55%
melatonin suppression from evening and night screen light.
Source: PNASThe solution
One controllable input on a desk full of variables
You cannot control the market, but you can control how the screen treats your traders at midnight. ScreenMercy reads the real sun above each trader's location and warms the display through late and overnight sessions, easing eye strain and supporting better sleep afterward. It runs silently and asks nothing of the trader.
Tuned to global hours
A desk trading across regions keeps odd hours by definition. ScreenMercy follows each person's real sun, so late sessions anywhere are handled correctly.
Per-app control for color-sensitive tools
Traders who need exact color on specific charting or terminal apps can exclude them with per-app rules, while everything else stays warm.
No data, no exceptions
On a trading floor, a tool that phones home is a non-starter. ScreenMercy collects nothing and makes zero network calls, by design.
The ROI
The license is invisible next to a single bad fill
A trading seat can move sums that make any software cost irrelevant. ScreenMercy runs about $2 a month per seat. Against the cost of one sleep-skewed risk decision, or the long-term drag of a desk running tired, the price does not register. This is the rare seat where a per-seat tool's potential payoff is measured in basis points, not dollars.
"On a trading floor, the cheapest risk control you will buy this year might be a warmer screen at 2 a.m."
Trust and privacy
Built for a floor that cannot tolerate data leakage
ScreenMercy makes zero outbound network calls, creates no accounts, and collects no data. For a compliance and security environment as strict as a trading floor, that turns the review into a one-page pass.
Zero telemetry
No network calls
On-device only
Apple notarized
Pricing
Per-seat pricing, with invoicing and an MSA for the desk.
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
Buy nowTeam
10 to 49 seats
$1.67 /seat/mo
per seat / month, billed annually at $20 / seat / year
Growing engineering or ops teams
Buy nowBusiness
50 to 199 seats
$1.33 /seat/mo
per seat / month, billed annually at $16 / seat / year
Department or company rollouts
Request a quoteEnterprise
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.
Give your desk a steadier screen for the late session
Start a free 14-day pilot for your desk. No credit card, no commitment. Keep it only if your traders feel the difference through a late session.
No credit card required.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
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 you have a SOC 2 report?
As a focused indie vendor, we can provide a security attestation and a one-page security brief that satisfies most procurement reviews. Because the app collects and transmits no data, the review surface is minimal.
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.
Explore teams
More ways ScreenMercy fits Mac-heavy teams
Find the page closest to how your team works, buys, and deploys. Each one points back to pricing, privacy, and deployment details.
By team
- Engineering teams For Mac-heavy product and engineering teams shipping after sunset.
- On-call engineering For SRE, DevOps, and incident teams who meet the 3 a.m. page.
- Customer support and 24/7 ops For screen-bound support floors running around the clock.
- Trading desks and finance For desks and finance teams managing late-session judgment.
- Game studios For dev, art, and QA teams working through crunch on Mac.
- Design and creative For creative teams who need accurate color on demand.
- Startup teams For lean teams that need visible care without another tool to manage.
- AI startups For builders debugging models, agents, and demos deep into the night.
- Remote engineering For distributed Mac teams working across each person's own sunset.