betterdisplay

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.

Free & open-source alternative to BetterDisplay for macOS. DDC brightness/contrast control, HiDPI virtual displays, display arrangement, color profiles, auto brightness sync, keyboard brightness key interception with native OSD — all core BetterDisplay features, zero cost.

Simple CLI access for BetterDisplay

Like BetterDisplay, but for Windows. Change resolution and refresh rate of your monitors from your system tray.

VoidDisplay - macOS virtual displays, screen monitoring, and LAN screen sharing

Forkable macOS Sunshine + VoidLink setup: persistent BetterDisplay profiles, 120 Hz iPad tuning, wake recovery and safe Shortcuts templates.

Press one button to switch from your MacBook to your Gaming PC

Free open-source replacement for BetterDisplay's XDR brightness — boost MacBook Pro display up to 1600 nit via gamma + EDR headroom. Menu bar app + CLI, 480 KB, ~800 lines of Swift, MIT.

macOS utility for external displays that ignore sleep/wake because of phantom or lingering signals

Home Assistant custom integration exposing BetterDisplay brightness (proof of concept)

Experimental native RDP server for macOS using FreeRDP, ScreenCaptureKit, and BetterDisplay.

搭配 BetterDisplay，用 Logitech Action Ring 一鍵同步切換螢幕輸入源與鍵鼠 Easy-Switch，達成進階 KVM（Mac 作為 server 供 Windows 呼叫）

macOS menu bar display manager — finds the HiDPI modes macOS hides when the lid is closed. Resolution/HiDPI switching, per-layout profiles, DDC brightness.

Cap an EDID's advertised max refresh rate so Apple Silicon Macs can drive two external displays

Fix warm tint on Xiaomi G Pro 27i (ELA5585EU) after sleep/wake on macOS — software equivalent of the OSD Eco→Standard toggle, via BetterDisplay's DDC channel.

A lightweight macOS menu bar app that coordinates Synergy and BetterDisplay for a software KVM setup.

Raycast extension: connect your iPad over Sidecar and force it to extend instead of mirror — via BetterDisplay or a native helper, without touching your main display.

Auto-connect an iPad via Sidecar and make it the sole primary display right after login — revive a broken-screen / headless Mac. macOS, zero hard-coding, UUID-based.

Menu-bar controller for multi-Mac Jump Desktop rigs — one-click session launch, network-adaptive quality profiles, dock-aware remote resolution switching

Fades your Mac's monitor to black when you leave the desk. 24GHz presence radar over USB serial, brightness via BetterDisplay.