Shades is a 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.
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Shades
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Shades, and it has gotten 6 likes
- Developed by Charcoal Design
- Proprietary and Free product.
- Average rating of 4
- 8 alternatives listed
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View allShades was added to AlternativeTo by awazawazawaz on Aug 9, 2010 and this page was last updated Apr 27, 2017.
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Shades
Summary and Relevance
Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Shades, and it has gotten 6 likes
- Developed by Charcoal Design
- Proprietary and Free product.
- Average rating of 4
- 8 alternatives listed
Popular alternatives
View allShades was added to AlternativeTo by awazawazawaz on Aug 9, 2010 and this page was last updated Apr 27, 2017.
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I love the app, but after upgrading to Mac OS X Catalina, it didn't work anymore. I hope the developers overcome the incompatibilities
I tried contacting the developers but it looks like Shades is now well and truly dead. Its functionality is indispensable to me and is in fact probably the only reason I haven't upgraded to Catalina yet.
Did you manage to find a worthy replacement? Preferably with support for hotkeys?
Reply written over 1 year ago
f.lux was good at tinting the screen orangey, but I still needed sunglasses to reduce the brightness when working at night. Finally found Shades thanks to this site and giving it a try. Fights with f.lux, which I had to disable. Shades provides non-intrusive translucent slider that extends lower range of built-in dimmer, which is exactly what I was looking for. Shades also integrates with preferences pane which seems pretty neat.