Lumen - magic auto brightness based on screen contents. You control Lumen simply by using your brightness keys - it'll automatically learn your preferences.

DimScreen is described as 'Form 1 Hour Software by skrommel, it can dim the screen by applying a transparent gray layer on top of your opened applications' and is a Screen Dimmer. There are more than 50 alternatives to DimScreen for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Wayland and Android apps. The best DimScreen alternative is f.lux, which is free. Other great apps like DimScreen are Redshift, Twinkle Tray, Solace and LightBulb.
Lumen - magic auto brightness based on screen contents. You control Lumen simply by using your brightness keys - it'll automatically learn your preferences.

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.


Away From Keyboard is an app that reduces eye strain with reminders to take a break.

EyeAway is a beautiful, privacy-first macOS app that helps reduce digital eye strain using the proven 20-20-20 rule. Every 20 minutes, look 20 feet away for 20 seconds - your eyes will thank you.




With cursor-based activation, keep your monitors off until you need them and protect your screens from burn-in and image retention.




LUMEL is a two-way Mac brightness app: boost a supported XDR display past the macOS cap toward ~1600 nits for sunlight, or dim below the system minimum for dark rooms — all from the menu bar. Public EDR rendering, sandboxed, no data collected. Free tier never expires; $2.99 one-time Pro.





Focus view, extra brightness, ambient glow, and keep awake — all from your menu bar. JoyScreen transforms how you use your Mac.


Small GTK GUI application to set contrast, brightness and gamma for wayland compositors which support the wlr-gamma-control protocol extension. Basically this is the example from here: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/blob/master/examples/gamma-control.
