darkNC For Mac

Apple's dark mode for the menu bar and the dock has your eyes covered if you work late into the night frequently. However, they missed a small detail: the bright flash of light you get when opening the Notification Center by mistake in the middle of the night.

A solution would be to give up using the Notification Center altogether after the sunset or after you turn off the lights in your office, but there's another way.

You can use darkNC, a very simple to install and enable SIMBL plugin designed to help you bring the eye-friendly dark mode to the Notification Center.

Moreover, the darkNC SIMBL plugin works only on macOS 10.12 Sierra, and it needs the mySIMBL application for quick and effortless installation.

To start the installation process after downloading darkNC on your Mac, you have to unzip the archive and double click the darkNC bundle within to open it with mySIMBL.

Next, open the Terminal.app, run the "killall NotificationCenter" without the quotes, and toggle on the "Use dark menu bar and Dock" option from the General tab in your Mac's System Preferences.

Once you finish darkNC's installation process, your Mac's Notification Center will have a dark skin, perfectly matching your dark dock and menu bar.

Once installed on my Mac, I haven't experienced any problems while using the Notification Center in dark mode throughout an entire day.

Besides the quite intricate although easy to follow installation process, there are no downsides in using darkNC.

In a nutshell, darkNC comes in to rescue the day if you missed having a dark mode for Notification Center and you thought that Apple's latest macOS release was incomplete without it.Also, even though it doesn't have a user interface of its own, darkNC does the job it was meant to do perfectly.