Every display control macOS hides, in one menu bar app: sharp HiDPI/Retina scaling (no more blurry or tiny text), DDC brightness and volume, Extra Brightness past 100%, presets, virtual displays. Free and open source, a no-cost alternative to BetterDisplay and Lunar.
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🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.
Candela protects your displays from OLED burn-in and wear: panel health history, a checkup for defects, and the controls macOS leaves out for external monitors (brightness, volume, contrast, custom resolutions, HiDPI scaling). Free and open source.
Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray
Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors
Reduces eye strain by adjusting screen gamma based on the current time
Modern flashlight app with dim functionality on Android 13+
Bring back the pre-Tahoe macOS volume and brightness HUDs
Turn the edges of your MacBook trackpad into volume and brightness sliders. Native macOS menu bar app with a Liquid Glass HUD, haptics and a media strip.
Simple & Privacy-Friendly Flashlight App
Free, open-source display control for Windows 11: one brightness slider for every monitor (DDC/CI and laptop panels), night light, focus mode, keep awake, per-monitor taskbar hiding and glass, OLED care, your monitor's own settings, hotkeys and a CLI.