Free · Open source · Portable

Day and night,
handled by the sun.

WinThemeAuto switches Windows between light and dark themes on your schedule — or follows real sunrise and sunset. One small exe, living quietly in your tray.

Download for Windows 64-bit recommended · 32-bit build

Single portable .exe — no installer, no admin rights.

WinThemeAuto app icon — sun setting into night waves
Auto-switch on follows the sun

Why it earns its tray slot

Everything the big theme tools do, minus the installer, the service and the account.

Time or sun, your call

Fixed hours with overnight ranges, or offline sunrise/sunset math for your coordinates with minute offsets.

Full themes, not just flags

Point it at installed light and dark .theme files — any two images, or a slideshow folder per theme — and the wallpaper changes along, silently, no flashing windows.

Lock screen follows the theme

Separate light and dark lock images that switch with the theme — or leave them empty and the desktop wallpaper is reused. No admin rights needed.

Accent follows the theme

One accent color for day, another for night — picked from swatches in a click and applied with every switch.

Finds your sun in one click

Detect fills your coordinates from IP once — every sunrise after that is computed offline, on your machine.

Apps and system, separately

Dark apps with a light taskbar? Light apps after dark? Mix however you like.

Updates itself

One click checks GitHub Releases, verifies the SHA256 checksum, swaps the exe and restarts. Settings survive.

Scriptable

Headless --toggle, --light, --dark and --status flags for hotkeys, schedulers and scripts.

Speaks your language

Full English and Russian interface with one-click switching — every label, error, tray hint and sunrise caption.

Manual override that sticks

Hit Switch in the middle of the day and the manual theme holds until the next scheduled change — no more snap-back within seconds.

A tray that shows the theme

Sun icon by day, moon by night — the tray itself tells you which theme is on, with a live tooltip for what's next.

Stays out of the way

Theme-aware tray icon with a live status tooltip, autostart, single instance. About 11 MB on disk, ~0% CPU idle.

Private by construction

Everything lives in a local config file. The network is touched only when you press a button.

Up and running in a minute

No installer, no wizard, no account.

1

Download the .exe above and run it.

2

Enable auto-switch and pick time or sunrise mode.

3

Apply. It moves to your tray from here.