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DisplayBuddy

Control the real brightness of your monitors directly from your Mac - no need to touch the buttons on your Monitor.

DisplayBuddy lets you control external displays connected to your Mac right from your menu bar - No need to touch those clunky monitor buttons!

It has been tested on a wide range of monitors from manufacturers such as Dell, Acer, LG, Samsung, BenQ & PRISM, and works with most displays manufactured in the last 5 years. DisplayBuddy can also control the volume for monitors with built-in speakers, turn off your monitors, sync brightness across displays and even switch display inputs to HDMI, DisplayPort, USB-C and more.

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2022-04-06

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Khan Winter

about 1 year ago

Simple UI, and does what is says very well!
If you use a monitor with your Mac, this app is life changing. I started using DisplayBuddy and I can never go back to monitor buttons now!

👍 Pros: Works perfectly|Supports mac shortcuts

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Social recommendations and mentions

We have tracked the following product recommendations or mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you see what people think about DisplayBuddy and what they use it for.

Little macOS Apps That Make a Big Difference in 2024
Adding my must haves: - DisplayBuddy: a more modern alternative to BetterDisplay to control monitors (https://displaybuddy.app) - Magnet: the simplest and best window manager (https://magnet.crowdcafe.com) - DaisyDisk: fantastic way to visualise your disk usage and free up space (https://daisydiskapp.com). - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn't strain your eyes
Why not just use https://displaybuddy.app on a modern monitor and not strain your eyes. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Scrollbars Are Becoming a Problem
If you’re looking for something that allows media keys and custom keyboard shortcuts: https://displaybuddy.app/ Works on both Windows and Mac. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
TIL there are apps that can control your monitor without touching the buttons on it
All DDC related features in BetterDisplay and MonitorControl is completely free without limitation or no nag screens of any kind. Lunar has manual control available for free (with a daily adjustment limit). DisplayBuddy was also mentioned here - it is a rather limited app and asks a bunch of money for stuff that is available for free and in a better implemented form in basically every other app (which is weird as... Source: about 1 year ago
App LIST!!!
DisplayBuddy (Paid) Very limited options, tbh I don't recommend it compared to Lunar or BetterDisplay. Source: about 1 year ago
App breaks past the MacBook brightness limit to 1600nits
Yes, it's not open-source by that definition. It was fully open-source until v3: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/tree/lunar3 I've kept that around, it's still compilable, but probably not that useful. When making Lunar paid in v4, I didn't want to remove the possibility of sharing knowledge, so I kept the non-paid parts open-source. This allowed other apps like MonitorControl [1] and DisplayBuddy [2] to port some... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
Apple MacBook M1 Max - Variable 48-120hz on external working with HDR.
Yes - with a third party App you can control it. I use this service called "Setapp" so for me, it was already paid for in my monthly subscription. The app is called DisplayBuddy. Source: over 2 years ago
Some amazing macOS apps I use every day
DisplayBuddy for controlling my external displays directly from my Mac. $4.99 a one time purchase and worth every penny if you use a monitor with your Mac (especially during WFH). Source: almost 3 years ago

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