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

Last update: Dec 11, 2022

Overview

MonitorControl Lite

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

About

MonitorControl Lite is a simplified version of the popular Mac app MonitorControl providing an even more user friendly experience thanks to the increased convenience, security and user protection offered by the App Store.

Download

The app will be available in the App Store. Stay tuned.

Major features

Control your display's brightness by software dimming.
Supports multiple software based protocols to adjust brightness - advanced gammatable based control or overly dimming for AirPlay, Sidecar and DisplayLink devices.
Supports smooth brightness transitions.
Support for custom keyboard shortcuts.
Several customization options.
Modern, stylish customizable menulet reflecting the design of Control Control introduced in newer macOS versions.
Simple, unobstrusive UI to blend into the general aesthetics of macOS (even the menu icon can be hidden).

macOS compatibility

MonitorControl Lite is compatible with macOS 10.14 or newer.

Supported displays

All displays are supported.

Difference between MonitorControl and MonitorControl Lite

The following functionality is not present in MonitorControl Lite as compared with MonitorControl in order to simplify the experience and conform to the App Store guidelines for increased security and user protection:

Hardware DDC and Apple display control (brightenss, audio, contrast)
Native macOS OSD popup
Usage of native Apple Keyboard media keys (custom shortcuts are supported)
MonitorControl Lite is available in English only.

Maintainer

@waydabber

Thanks

To the MonitorControl team.

Comments

Cooperation with f.lux?

Hi Istvan,

Is there any - even remote - chance that this app could coexist with f.lux on the same machine? I can't imagine even existing without f.lux and dimming my display in the evening hours is also super-important. Could the dimming be achieved using DDC commands (such as https://github.com/kfix/ddcctl)?

opened by adams-family 1
Prevent hotkey propogation

I configurated MonitorControl Lite to F1 and F2 hotkey.

Hotkey F1/F2 not works in MingthCommander (mcedit) now. I think MonitorControl intercept hotkey event and stop propogation to other software.

opened by alexpts 0
Setup localization

Hi @waydabber, This lite version of Monitor Control is pretty neat 💪 I'd be interested in setting up localization (if needed) and localizing it to French 🇫🇷 (my second tongue). If that's ok, I'll make a draft PR for this. Regards

opened by W1W1-M 0
Does it shorten the lifespan of monitors?

I noticed that I have to first set the brightness of my monitor to 100% manually and then open up the app to allow its full brightness range to be adjustable. So my question is, does it truly control the brightness of my external monitors hardware-wise? or it's just software-wise? Cause it seems like my actual monitor settings would maintain output 100% of brightness which makes me wonder if that will shorten my monitors' lifespan.

Thanks!

opened by goberwei 0
F1 and F2 do not work.

Hello!

First and foremost thank you for creating this software. I have the new Mac Studio and I cannot get the program to recognize any F keys, F1 and F2 being the target of course. Even trying to do them as cmd and F*, the input field does not recognize them. I am able to do cmd 1 and cmd 2, and they work, but I'd really love to have the F1 and F2 button functionality as those are typically the native buttons on the magic keyboard. Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks Jason

opened by Snuffaluffacuss 4

Releases(v1.0.0-b186)

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Control your external monitor directly from your mac

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