Shades Alternatives

Shades is described as 'FREE utility for controlling the brightness of your screen. It runs in the background providing always-available fine-grained control over the brightness of your display via a slick Mac-like interface' and is an app. There are eight alternatives to Shades for Mac and Windows. The best alternative is myPoint Shade. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try EasyOnTheEyes or Nocturne. Other great apps like Shades are ScreenDimmer, Dimmer Than Dim, Day Night and Simple Screen Shade.

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Shades

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myPoint Shade
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Screen Dimmer
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31 alternatives to myPoint Shade
Stop burning your eyes! myPoint Shade is caring for your eyes' comfort.

If you work in a dark room or struggle with eye strain and headache, myPoint will tune up your displays - this way it will care for your health and comfort.

myPoint allows you to adjust the brightness o.
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Reduce Eyestrain
EasyOnTheEyes
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Free • Proprietary
Screen Dimmer
Mac
12 alternatives to EasyOnTheEyes
FREE and simple screen shader app. Complete multiple display support, including latest OS X. • Five presets. Easy to change too. • Multiple monitor support, even on latest macOS. • Quickly detects all monitor changes. • Fine control.
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1. Support for Multiple MonitorsEasyOnTheEyes supports the use of multiple displays.
Reduce Eyestrain
Display Management
Nocturne
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Free • Open Source
Mac
47 alternatives to Nocturne
Nocturne is simple app for switching a computer to night vision mode. It has a few tricks up its sleeve: color correction, window shadow toggling, and background removal.
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Color correction
Discontinued
The project has been abandoned. Last version, 2.0.0, released in September 2009, can be still downloaded from Google Code Hosting
ScreenDimmer
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
7 alternatives to ScreenDimmer
Having two monitors on OSX is both a joy and a pain. Simple things like viewing a movie or playing a game quickly become a hassle when you have one screen playing and the other blasting full brightness your face.
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1. Support for Multiple MonitorsScreenDimmer supports the use of multiple displays.
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Dimmer Than Dim
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
5 alternatives to Dimmer Than Dim
Are you suffering from eye strains for staring at the screen for a long time?

Dimmer than Dim helps you to reduce eye strains and radiation by breaking the brightness limit of your screen settings.

More often than not, you'll find that even using the minimum brightness le.

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Day Night
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Paid • Proprietary
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48 alternatives to Day Night
Day Night is a desktop app made to kill procrastination by showing you how much time is left for tasks in percentages.
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1. Pomodoro TimerPractice the Pomodoro Technique in Day Night to stay focused and productive.
Simple Screen Shade
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Paid • Proprietary
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9 alternatives to Simple Screen Shade
If you work in a dark room, or in room lit by the sun, or struggle with eye strain and headache, Simple Screen Shade will dim your displays - this way it will care for your health and comfort.

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Free Monitor Manager
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Freemium • Proprietary
Windows
10 alternatives to Free Monitor Manager
Free Monitor Manager lets you easily change your monitor's brightness, contrast and colors.

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myPoint Shade Features

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