Offstage: Focus Window Dimmer
Blur & fade background apps
Only for Mac
$6.99
Mac
New: a soft Spotlight lights the window you're using and glides with you. Turn the Aperture, pick a Look, and let everything else wait offstage.
Offstage lights the window you're working in and lets every other window recede: dimmed, softened or faded, in a warmth you choose.
It is a menu bar app that stages your screen. The window you are using is on stage, lit by a soft spotlight that glides with you from app to app. Everything else is offstage: still open, still where you left it, but quiet enough to stop asking for your attention. Nothing is closed, nothing is hidden, and everything is one click from walking back on.
KEY FEATURES
• One dial for the whole room. Turn the Aperture from ƒ/1.4, where the rest only whispers, to ƒ/16, where the house goes dark. Scroll, drag or use the arrow keys, with a gentle detent at every stop.
• Three lenses. ND dims the rest, Soft blurs it, Grad fades it from the top down.
• Light that matches the room. Set the colour temperature from candlelight to blue hour, let it follow the sun through the day, or pick a gel or an image wash. A fine film grain keeps it all soft.
• A spotlight that follows your click. Choose another window and the light glides there on a spring.
• Looks. Save the combinations you love, such as Deep Work, Reading or Night, and recall them with ⌘1 to ⌘5.
• Peek. Hold ⌥ to see every window for a moment, then let go.
• Intermission. Bring the house lights up for 15 minutes, an hour or until tomorrow. Offstage turns itself back on.
• Smart rules. Steps aside automatically while a call, a presentation or a fullscreen video is in front, and keeps any app you choose always on stage.
• Every display. Dim all of them, only the one you're using, or only the others. Split View and Stage Manager aware.
• Focus Film. Your days as strips of film: one frame per session, deep takes glow amber. No scores, nothing in red, and you can share a week as an image.
WORKS THE WAY YOUR MAC DOES
• Right-click the menu bar icon for a quick menu, or ⌥-click to switch Offstage on or off.
• Global keyboard shortcuts for on and off, Intermission, the next lens and every Look.
• Shortcuts app actions, a macOS Focus filter (turn on a Look when your Work Focus starts) and an offstage:// URL scheme for launchers and Stream Deck.
• Lights down setup: no permissions to grant. Watch the room dim around the setup window.
• Native SwiftUI and AppKit, designed for Liquid Glass on macOS Tahoe, with full keyboard and VoiceOver labels, Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency support.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Offstage reads only where your windows are, to tell which one is in front. It never records your screen and never reads what is inside your windows.
• Runs in the App Sandbox. No account, no telemetry, no tracking, no network connections.
• Focus Film stays on your Mac. Export it as CSV or erase it with one click.
Offstage does not block apps or lock you out of anything. It lets the rest of your screen wait in the wings while you work.
Questions or ideas? Visit offstage.techvis.dev/support.
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Information
- Seller
- ADAM MORTKA
- Size
- 4.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Adam Mortka
