🖥 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.

Free, open-source external monitor control for macOS: a lightweight menu bar app with sharp HiDPI/Retina scaling (no more blurry or tiny text), DDC brightness, presets, and virtual displays. A free alternative to BetterDisplay and Lunar, including features they charge for.

Control your display's brightness from the macOS menu bar. Simple and easy to use.

💻➡️ Extend a HIDPI screen to a normal DPI external display

Control your external monitor brightness & volume on your Mac

Content-adaptive display brightness for macOS that follows what's on screen — and learns your preference.

Instant, context-aware brightness control for Hyprland. Seamlessly manages Laptop Backlights and External Monitors (DDC/CI) with zero-latency caching.

Free, open-source display manager for macOS — control external monitor brightness, contrast, volume & inputs over DDC/CI from the menu bar, keyboard media keys, CLI, or Shortcuts. An open alternative to BetterDisplay / Lunar / MonitorControl for Apple Silicon.

A lightweight macOS menu bar app that enables HiDPI (Retina) scaling on external displays

Control your external monitor brightness on your Linux

Automatic Dock manager for macOS — different Dock settings for different displays. Lives in menu bar, switches Dock config instantly when external monitor connects or disconnects.

A lightweight macOS menu bar utility for switching display resolutions, creating virtual displays, and managing multi-monitor setups.

Build a controllable Chinese long-form fiction system with outlines, character files, continuity checks, and chapter-by-chapter tracking

A tool that gives your macOS display beautifully rounded corners.

Lightweight macOS brightness control with F3/F4 keys and F6 warm tint toggle. Gamma-based software brightness for external monitors.

Background changer that changes background depending on resolution

Turn an iPad Air 1st generation (A1474, MD785LL/B, iOS 12.5.8) into a wired Retina second display for macOS

Hardware blue light filter control for external monitors using DDC/CI - fast and persistent

Windows tray app for controlling external monitor brightness via DDC/CI with a safe software-dimming fallback.

Turn off your MacBook display without closing the lid.