Display GitHub Repositories (2026) · Open Source Tools

🖥 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.

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.

DisplayMagician is an open source tool for automatically configuring your displays and sound for a game or application from a single Windows Shortcut.

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.

Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors

Reduces eye strain by adjusting screen gamma based on the current time

Full RGB LED matrix, based on an ESP32 and WS2812B LEDs or emulated LEDs on TFT.

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.

Higher virtual desktop resolution and HiDPI-style scaling for Windows, with portable per-display configuration, experimental scaling, backup, and recovery.

Turn external displays off from the macOS menu bar — like pulling the cable, without pulling the cable.

Turn your MacBook's internal display off while an external monitor is connected