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.

MonitorControl is not available for Windows but there are some alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Twinkle Tray, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to MonitorControl and five of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to MonitorControl are Monitorian, Brightness Master, Simple Screen Brightness Adjuster and monitorcontrol (Python).
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.

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.


Simple Screen Brightness is a small portable application written in C# that allows you to adjust the brightness for all of your connected monitors using a slider without having to use their difficult-to-use built-in menu systems.

Python monitor control using the VESA Monitor Control Command Set (MCCS) over the Display Data Channel Command Interface Standard (DDC-CI).