DuskPaneDim the noise.
Keep the light.
A native Mac app that covers, frosts, or dims everything except what you're working on. This is it, running.
no subscription · 30-day money-back
The problem nobody names
Your screen
is loud.
Forty tabs. Nine unread badges. A ticker you swore you'd stop watching. Every pixel on your display is bidding for the one thing you came here to spend — your attention — and it is quietly, constantly, winning.
You don't need a new app to close. You need the rest of it to hush.
Overlays
Frame the signal. Frost the rest.
Lock it in place. Click through it. Or attach it to a window.
Drag the cover. Try Glass, Solid, opacity, and blur.
Focus mode
The light follows the window you're in.
One shortcut, two ways to focus. Focus Mode shades one display at a time: Dim fades the background; Glass frosts it instead. Switch to another normal app window and the clear focus follows.One shortcut, two ways to focus: Dim fades the background; Glass frosts it instead. Switch windows and the clear focus follows.
Click a window to focus it. Choose Dim or Glass, then adjust the controls.Tap a window to focus it. Choose Dim or Glass, then adjust the controls.
Under your fingers
Every control, a keystroke away.
Set the opacity10–90%; 0 returns to 100%.
New coverfrom anywhere, in a keystroke.
Lives in the menu barnative, and out of the way.
Toggle Focus Modefrom anywhere.
Show the panelwithout reaching for the menu bar.
And then
Nothing beeps.
Nothing bounces.
Just the work — lit low and warm.
This is the part you came for.
Practical guides
Start with what you want to quiet.
Two precise ways to use DuskPane, with the behavior and limits spelled out.
Cover or frost one area of your Mac screen.
Place a solid or glass cover exactly where you want it. The cover stays put while content can scroll underneath.
Read the guide → Active windowDim everything except the window you're using.
Turn on Focus Mode to keep one normal Mac window clear while the rest of the display recedes.
Read the guide →Pricing
Buy it once. Own it.
One edition, one price — the whole app, yours to keep.
- The complete DuskPane — every feature, unlocked
- Free updates through all of DuskPane 1 — it installs them itself
- One license — up to 3 of your Macs
30-day money-back guarantee. If it's not for you, one email gets a full refund — no questions.
Questions?
A recent version of macOS, native on both Apple silicon and Intel — check the download page for the current minimum. It's a real Mac app: no Electron, no web wrapper.
No — never. DuskPane is a one-time purchase: $9.99, yours to keep, with free updates through all of DuskPane 1 and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Your screen content never leaves your Mac. DuskPane never captures, records, or transmits what's on your screen; its optional permissions read window layout only. The direct-download app only connects to activate and manage your license and to check for software updates, with no analytics or telemetry.
Manually placed covers, opacity, presets, and frosted glass need no permission. Focus Mode uses Accessibility to identify the active window. Attaching a cover to an app window uses Accessibility for window geometry and Screen Recording for reliable stacking order. These features read window metadata only; DuskPane does not capture or transmit screen pixels. Grant or revoke either permission anytime in System Settings → Privacy & Security.
Thirty days, no questions asked. One email and you're refunded in full — no explanation required.
Never for DuskPane 1 — buy once, keep every update in the line. And DuskPane installs them itself: a quiet once-a-day check to our own domain, one click to update, and release notes so you see what changed. No analytics and no account — the app's only other network use is your license, described on the privacy page. You can switch the auto-check off in Settings.
Up to 3 Macs you personally own or control — a laptop, a desktop, and one to spare. Replacing a Mac? On the old Mac, choose Settings → License → Deactivate This Mac. If you no longer have access to it, contact support.
Your license covers up to 3 Macs. Download the app any time from duskpane.com/download, open it, and paste the key from your receipt email.
Out of a small, real annoyance. A coding tool I otherwise loved started showing ads right above where I typed — and I couldn't find anything that would simply cover a patch of screen. So I built one. It was my first Mac app. Focus Mode came later, once the covers worked: apps that dim everything but the front window already existed, but they stopped at the dim — no frosted blur — so I built both. DuskPane is what those two ideas grew into — a small, sharp utility against on-screen noise of any kind, made with the kind of care you're glad to pay for once.