Drain: Smart Grayscale
Distractions Fade to Gray
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
The color drops out of everything that's trying to steal your attention. Not blocked. Not hidden. Just less alive.
Drain makes everything boring except the work that matters.
Most focus tools fight you. They block, lock, and shame — and you spend your energy resisting the wall instead of doing the work.
Drain takes the opposite approach. Instead of hiding your distractions, it simply drains the color out of them. The moment you switch to an app you've marked as a distraction, your screen fades to grayscale. Switch back to the work that matters, and the color returns.
Nothing is blocked. Nothing is locked. You can still open anything you want — it just won't feel as good. That endless feed, that inbox, that everything-app: all of it goes flat and gray and a little bit dull. The friction is gentle, not punishing. You keep your freedom; you just lose the dopamine.
And here's the part that surprises people: by draining the color from everything else, the apps you actually care about start to feel more vivid. More alive. More worth being in. The contrast does the work.
How it works
Pick your apps. Choose one of two modes:
• Keep your focus apps in color, and let everything else fade to gray.
• Or flip it — keep everything normal, and drain only the specific apps that pull you away.
Drain watches which app you're using and adjusts instantly. No timers to set, no sessions to start, no streaks to maintain. It just works in the background, quietly, every time you switch apps.
Built to disappear
Once it's set up, Drain gets out of the way. No notifications. No nagging. No dashboards full of statistics about how distracted you were. Set your apps once and forget it's there — until you notice you're getting more done.
Stop fighting your distractions. Just drain the color out of them.
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You can now add websites as well as apps, so Drain can fade individual sites to gray in Safari, Chrome, Brave and Edge.
The developer, Joseph Casey, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Minimal Applications LLC
- Size
- 2 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, Dutch, French, German, Japanese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Lifetime Access $24.99
- Annual Subscription $9.99
- Copyright
- © Drain Color 2026