

Among the many hidden features, two stand out as great value for CVS sufferers: the color invert, and unlimited blue light control. Iris Mini Pro (purchase license here): Minimalistic, simple to use. Iris Mini (download free): limited blue light filtering capacity and brightness control, no other anti-CVS functionalities. If your objective is only to fight digital screen induced insomnia and you want it for free f.lux is your best blue light app because it provides a greater range of CCT settings than the free versions of Iris. The two blue light filter apps: A brief overviewį.lux: Free, simple to use for insomnia, a bit trickier for CVS. Finally, the article reveals the functionalities that could potentially help reduce computer eye fatigue but are yet to be fully implemented in Iris. Next, the anti-CVS capabilities offered in Iris but not in f.lux are described. The article first mentions the functionalities that Iris and f.lux do equally well.

These are not considered as the best for CVS prevention because of an inferior blue filtering technique. Six other popular blue light filter apps are also mentioned. Since there are already several articles about f.lux on Glarminy (see here, here, and here) the focus of this article will be on Iris and how it compares to f.lux ( in anti-CVS effectiveness). In insomnia prevention, the two apps appear similar. It filters blue light using the same approach as f.lux. Iris is the novel blue light filter app designed specifically to reduce computer eye strain. f.lux had been the best in its superior approach to filtering blue light. Like many others I’d been using f.lux, the popular anti-insomnia blue light filter app, to reduce computer vision syndrome (CVS) caused by blue light.
