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Shifty VS SmartBreak

Compare Shifty VS SmartBreak and see what are their differences

Shifty logo Shifty

More control over macOS Night Shift

SmartBreak logo SmartBreak

Apps and tools from InchWest are designed with one goal - to increase your productivity and improve your experience on MacOS, Windows and iOS devices.
  • Shifty Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-02-25
  • SmartBreak Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-03-17

Shifty videos

Review: Mr. Shifty (Steam & Switch) - Defunct Games

More videos:

  • Review - Mr. Shifty Video Review (Switch)
  • Review - 2020 ThirtyTwo Shifty BOA Snowboard Boots - 32

SmartBreak videos

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Shifty and SmartBreak)
Browser Extension
100 100%
0% 0
Time Tracking
0 0%
100% 100
Productivity
100 100%
0% 0
Health And Fitness
20 20%
80% 80

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Shifty seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Shifty mentions (3)

  • Lunar [$8 off coupons] - adaptive brightness for external monitors
    Night Shift + Shifty is a much better choice than f.lux nowadays anyway. Source: over 1 year ago
  • f.lux
    It works better than f.lux for me, because it works at a lower level than Gamma table manipulation. I’ve been using Night Shift ever since it was released and I like its color rendering more than f.lux. But it’s subjective, some people like the extreme warmth of f.lux more. It depends on how you perceive colors and how well you can adjust to warmer colors. Shifty is also a very nice addition if you want more... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
  • f.lux
    Lunar developer here. Thanks for mentioning it! Just a note to avoid confusion: Lunar serves a completely different purpose than f.lux. f.lux changes the colour temperature by altering the Gamma tables. Lunar's main function is controlling the hardware brightness/contrast/volume/input/colors of external monitors using DDC and private macOS methods. Macos also has native approach to f.lux called Night Shift. I use... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

SmartBreak mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of SmartBreak yet. Tracking of SmartBreak recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Shifty and SmartBreak, you can also consider the following products

f.lux - f. lux is a piece of software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android that provides a blue light filter over your screen. Research suggests limiting our exposure to blue light in the hours before bedtime can help us fall asleep faster.

Workrave - Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).

Darkness: Beautiful Dark Themes - Chrome extension that provides beautiful dark themes for Facebook, Google and more.

Eye Break - eyeBreak is a tiny app designed to sit in the Windows tray and provide a non-ignorable message...

Flux - Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces

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