When we work with low ambient light, using applications with light backgrounds end up causing an eye pain that we can avoid by using a dark mode, a dark mode that must be implemented both in the system and in the applications that we use regularly, including web pages. that we visit.
It wasn't until macOS Mojave that Apple decided to add support for dark mode to its Mac operating system, a dark mode that didn't work automatically until the release of macOS Catalina. Apple hasn't made any other changes with macOS Big Sur.
As, unfortunately, it has been common, we have to resort to a third-party application if we want take advantage of macOS dark mode functionality. Gui Rambo, application developer and editor at 9to5Mac, has created an application called DarkModeBuddy, an application that makes use of the ambient light sensor (the same one that manages the brightness of the screen) to switch between light and dark mode depending on the values that we have previously established.
The application allows us to establish between the preferences, the level of luminosity in which we want the light or dark mode to be activated or deactivated, in addition to incorporate a timer to prevent flickering and that this mode is maintained for as long as we want if the ambient light conditions change.
DarkModeBuddy is not available on the Mac App Store, but we can find it in Gumroad under the business model «Choose your price». In order to enjoy this application, our MacBook must be managed by macOS 10.15 or higher and not be older than 2018, although work is being done to offer support for equipment prior to 2018.