external-monitor

🖥 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.

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.

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

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 tool that gives your macOS display beautifully rounded corners.

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

Official documentation, releases, and automation examples for Display Dimmer by Vantari Works — Windows monitor brightness control with DDC/CI and software dimming.

Candela looks after your displays: OLED burn-in protection, panel health history, a checkup for defects and wear, and the everyday controls macOS leaves out for external monitors (brightness, volume, contrast, custom resolutions, HiDPI scaling). Free and open source.

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

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

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

Native HiDPI scaling for external monitors on macOS. No SIP. No private entitlements.