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    Shades

    • Free • Proprietary
    • Mac
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    What is Shades?

    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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    dirkT
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    • Top positive comment  over 2 years ago • 1 reply
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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

    gsazraetr

    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?

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    marclab
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    • Top positive comment  over 6 years ago • 0 replies
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    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.

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    • gamma-change
    • dim-screen
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    Summary

    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
    • 9 alternatives listed

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    Shades was added to AlternativeTo by awazawazawaz on Aug 9, 2010 and this page was last updated Apr 27, 2017.

    Recent user activities on Shades

    • AbsenteeSurgeon added Shades as alternative(s) to Simple Screen Shade
      8 months ago
    • gsazraetr Upvoted a comment on Shades
      I love the app, but after upgrading to Mac OS X Catalina, it didn't work anymore. I hope the developers overcome the incompatibilities
      about 2 years ago
    • gsazraetr posted a reply on Shades
      about 2 years ago