JoyScreen Alternatives

JoyScreen is described as 'Focus view, extra brightness, ambient glow, and keep awake — all from your menu bar. JoyScreen transforms how you use your Mac' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to JoyScreen for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, openSUSE and Python apps. The best JoyScreen alternative is Twinkle Tray, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like JoyScreen are Solace, Dimly, MonitorControl and Monitorian.

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Alternatives list

  1. Twinkle Tray icon
     50 likes

    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.

    31 Twinkle Tray alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Solace icon
     7 likes

    Automatically changes Mac appearance using real-time weather, sunlight, and time data for light and dark modes, dynamic wallpapers, and color temperature, with on-device privacy, menu bar access, no subscriptions, and no analytics for seamless daily comfort.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. Dimly icon
     8 likes

    Open-source macOS menu utility for unified brightness, blackout, and sleep control of external monitors, using hybrid DDC/CI and software overlays, per-display settings, custom profiles, hotkeys, panic shortcut, privacy by design, and secure signed builds.

    15 Dimly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. MonitorControl icon
     20 likes

    🖥 Control your external monitor brightness & volume on your Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Brightintosh icon
     4 likes

    BrightIntosh is lightweight, works system-wide, has optional launch-at-login functionality and includes a global hotkey to toggle the extra brightness.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. LumiMax icon
     3 likes

    XDR brightness boost app for Mac — push your display to 1600 nits using native EDR overlay, with color accuracy preserved and better battery efficiency.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Lunar icon
     7 likes

    Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Vivid icon
     Like

    Vivid is a software that enables users to amplify the brightness of their MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR, system-wide, utilizing standard Apple APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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