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

Swift 99.76% Objective-C 0.24%

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monitorcontrollite's Introduction

MonitorControl Lite

Control your display's brightness from the macOS menu bar.

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.

Privacy Policy

MonitorControl Lite does not collect any personal information.

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Maintainer

@waydabber

Thanks

To the MonitorControl team.

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monitorcontrollite's Issues

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.

Default controls issue

The restore last saved values to the display thing reflects the screen brightness correctly in the menubar, but only applies when I physically update it.

My monitor always turns on at 100% brightness, and I hate manually updating it, even though the default value should be saved.

Monitor Naming Caching

When you name a monitor as long as you do not restart your machine, the monitor can be disconnected & reconnected with the custom name being remembered (Such as "Left" or "Right"). If you restart your machine, the custom names are lost.

Apple Cinema Led stuck at 30% percent brightness after installing Monitor control App

Mac external monitor volume control

Is volume control purposefully avoided in this version, due to some AppStore guidelines?

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

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)?

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

App tool bar widget is wrong even after changes and restart

The tool bar widget states displays are at 100% but they are not, and are actually different percentages in System preferences.

Monitors
LG Ultra Fine - connected by thunderbolt directly to MacBook Pro
LG HDR 4K - connected daisy chained through CalDigit TB4 dock
Built in MacBook Pro 16" M2 Max 2023

OS 13 – 13.6

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!