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.
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QuickShade AlternativesScreen Dimmers and other similar apps like QuickShade
QuickShade is described as 'A macOS app to quickly change the brightness of your Mac' and is a Screen Dimmer. There are more than 25 alternatives to QuickShade for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, openSUSE and Python apps. The best QuickShade alternative is Twinkle Tray, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like QuickShade are Solace, MonitorControl, Dimmer and Monitorian.
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29 Twinkle Tray alternatives
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.
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
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24 Monitorian alternativesMonitorian 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.
35 Brightintosh alternativesBrightIntosh is lightweight, works system-wide, has optional launch-at-login functionality and includes a global hotkey to toggle the extra brightness.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
19 DisplayBuddy alternativesDisplayBuddy lets you control external displays connected to your Mac right from your menu bar! No need to touch your clunky monitor buttons!
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Windows implementation of the ddcutil Linux program for querying and changing monitor settings, such as brightness and color levels.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows
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DDCcontrol is software for controlling monitor parameters such as brightness, contrast, and RGB color levels. It includes a command-line tool and a GUI tool.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- openSUSE
- Fedora
- Ubuntu
- Debian
The app lets you control the brightness of all your screens (both laptop and desktop) by a single click on a tray icon. Its look goes nicely with the system icons and it supports both light and dark mode.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows
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