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.

darkbright-helper is described as 'Hotkey dimmer for Windows monitors that does not stop at 0%: it lowers the real backlight over DDC/CI, then keeps dimming with a black overlay below the hardware minimum' and is a Screen Dimmer. There are five alternatives to darkbright-helper for Windows. The best darkbright-helper alternative is Twinkle Tray, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like darkbright-helper are Monitorian, Dimmer, PangoBright and Monitor Bright.
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.

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.

