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Twinkle Tray

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Twinkle Tray enables brightness control on external displays in Windows 10 & 11. Even th Windows is capable of adjusting the backlight on most monitors, it doesn't support external monitors natively.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows  For Windows 10/11
4.4 / 5 Avg rating (9)
35likes
6comments
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Backlight brightness control
  2.  Display Management
  3.  Support for Multiple Monitors
  4.  Dark Mode
  5.  Portable
  6.  Ad-free

 Tags

  • Opensource
  • screen-brightness
  • brightness-slider
  • brightness-setting

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Twinkle Tray information

  • Developed by

    US flagXander Frangos
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4
  • Alternatives

    17 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Bengali
    • Chinese
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Dutch
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Kurdish
    • Lithuanian
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Persian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Slovak
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese

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  •  6,838 Stars
  •  226 Forks
  •  456 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 15, 2025 
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Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about Twinkle Tray, and it has gotten 35 likes

Twinkle Tray was added to AlternativeTo by xanderfrangos on Feb 13, 2020 and this page was last updated Sep 8, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
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Feb 1, 2023
1

Support for some displays that are not supported by other software; HEY! THE UI HAS A LITTLE BUG!

Top Negative Comment
Luis Lobo
Sep 13, 2020
0

On my computer using Windows 10 he had several problems. Each time the icon appeared and I was able to click on it to see the current brightness. However, there were rare times when I was able to change the value. And when it happened there was a delay of 2 seconds. So, thinking it was a program error, I restarted it, but it never fully worked for me. For others it may work, but on my normal windows 10 it was not very compatible I don't know why.

Tiago Sousa
Dec 31, 2022
0

Best to controlls any screen dimmer, but limited to the same controls of hardware offers

Guest
Sep 12, 2022
0

Works excellent, not only for adjusting brightness! If your monitor supports it, you can also adjust its contrast, speaker volume .. and even turn off the monitor entirely.

Guest
Feb 24, 2022
0

Recent updates and functional. Easy to use and nice UI.

Deneb
Jan 12, 2021
0

It simple and clean, works like a charm and it's open source

What is Twinkle Tray?

Twinkle Tray enables brightness control on external displays in Windows 10 & 11. Even th Windows is capable of adjusting the backlight on most monitors, it doesn't support external monitors natively. Windows also lacks any options to manage the brightness of multiple displays. This app inserts a new icon into your system tray, where you can click to have instant access to the brightness levels of all compatible displays.

Features:

  • Adds brightness sliders to the system tray, similar to the built-in Windows volume flyout.
  • Seamlessly blends in with Windows 10 and Windows 11. Uses your Personalization settings to match your taskbar.
  • Can automatically change monitor brightness depending on the time of day or when idle.
  • Assign hotkeys to adjust brightness per display or all at once.
  • Normalize backlight across different monitors.
  • Starts up with Windows.
  • Multi languages.

Beta features with pre-release version 1.16 after 2023:

  • Designation of VCP code
  • Profile can be easily changed to a saved favorite brightness.

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