Twinkle Tray enables brightness control on external displays in Windows 10 & 11. Even th Windows is capable of adjusting the backlight on most monitors, it doesn't support external monitors natively.

ClickMonitorDDC is described as 'Lets you easily control monitor settings like bright and contrast, by using your keyboard or mouse. It can adjust brightness and contrast of external monitors by using DDC-protocol over monitor-cable (DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, VGA)' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 10 alternatives to ClickMonitorDDC for Windows. The best ClickMonitorDDC alternative is Twinkle Tray, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ClickMonitorDDC are Dimmer, Monitorian, PangoBright and DimScreen.
Twinkle Tray enables brightness control on external displays in Windows 10 & 11. Even th Windows is capable of adjusting the backlight on most monitors, it doesn't support external monitors natively.



Monitorian is a Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease.

Screen dimming software that allows you to control the brightness of your screens as well as external monitors.

Form 1 Hour Software by skrommel, it can dim the screen by applying a transparent gray layer on top of your opened applications

iBrightness Tray is a little bit of a swiss army knife display tool as adjusting the brightness of your screen is just one of three main functions it has. The other two are turning on your screensaver at the click of a button and also the ability to turn off the display...

Free Monitor Manager lets you easily change your monitor's brightness, contrast and colors.


This small utility will try to make controlling your external monitor brightness and contrast easier. Also it have day and night presets, which stored in a right-click on a button.


VibranceGUI is an application that automates NVIDIAs Digital Vibrance Control ("DVC") by utilizing the NVIDIA Driver API. AMD support for automating Saturation has been added.

Monitor Bright reduces with a simple trick the monitor brightness. Useful to use the PC at night without getting blind if the minimum brightness that can be obtained adjusting monitor settings is still too high if compared to ambience brightness. Supports multi monitor systems.


It is really nicely intigrated into windowns 10, and you have a lot of cutomisability.