Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Android
Shady is described as 'Puts a shade over your screen to help soothe your tired or dazzled eyes. You can use it to reduce your Mac's brightness far below the usual minimum, without any risk of damage to your screen' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Shady for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Wayland apps. The best Shady alternative is f.lux, which is free. Other great apps like Shady are Redshift, LightBulb, Red Moon and RedshiftGUI.
Synchronize your external monitor brightness with built-in display. Application reads current brightness of your built-in display and passes it to external monitors via DDC interface. You can adjust brightness by menu in system status bar.
A Python program that calculates ambient brightness and sets screen's correct backlight using a camera.

Brightness Controller easily allows windows users to set the brightness level of your LCD screen (It is very useful when your screen doesn't allow settings to be remembered without having to push many buttons on your screen!).

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.




Lumen - magic auto brightness based on screen contents. You control Lumen simply by using your brightness keys - it'll automatically learn your preferences.

SunshinePal is your daily sunlight companion designed to help you track your exposure, set healthy goals, and reconnect with nature for better sleep and mood.



SunshinePal is the most popular iPhone alternative to Shady.


Z-Image is a 6B-parameter Single-Stream Diffusion Transformer for fast, photorealistic image generation and editing. It runs smoothly on 16GB consumer GPUs, follows complex bilingual (Chinese/English) instructions, renders crisp text, and is fully open for developers via public...

Small GTK GUI application to set contrast, brightness and gamma for wayland compositors which support the wlr-gamma-control protocol extension. Basically this is the example from here: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/blob/master/examples/gamma-control.

Away From Keyboard is an app that reduces eye strain with reminders to take a break.

