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Shades

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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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  • FreeProprietary

Country of Origin

  • GB flagUnited Kingdom

Platforms

  • Mac
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  • gamma-change
  • dim-screen

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Shades information

  • Developed by

    GB flagCharcoal Design
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4
  • Alternatives

    7 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Shades, and it has gotten 6 likes

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

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Top Positive Comment
Dirk T
Oct 15, 2019
0

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
Dec 22, 2019

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?

marclab
May 23, 2015
0

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.

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.