Unlock your displays on your Mac! Smooth scaling, HiDPI unlock, XDR/HDR extra brightness upscale, DDC, brightness and dimming, virtual screens, PIP and lots more!.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac

Vivid is described as 'Software that enables users to amplify the brightness of their MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR, system-wide, utilizing standard Apple APIs' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Vivid for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Vivid alternative is f.lux, which is free. Other great apps like Vivid are Twinkle Tray, ModernFlyouts, Monitorian and PangoBright.
Unlock your displays on your Mac! Smooth scaling, HiDPI unlock, XDR/HDR extra brightness upscale, DDC, brightness and dimming, virtual screens, PIP and lots more!.

this app puts a Monitor Brightness icon to on Taskbar Tray. So you can access it with 1 click.


CareUEyes is a very simple but useful program when it is about your eye care. The program comes with a very simple and clean interface and needs to technical knowledge. Even a novice computer user can download and use it easily.


CareUEyes is the most popular commercial alternative to Vivid.
Free software for eye protection and more! It protects your eyes while you are working on the computer. Eye Saver has three main functions: blue light filter; eliminates the invisible flickering of the display backlight; reminds you to take breaks;


ControlMyMonitor allows you view and modify the settings of your monitor (Also known as 'VCP Features'), like brightness, contrast, sharpness, red/green/blue color balance, OSD Language, Input Port (VGA , DVI , HDMI ) and more...

Free Monitor Manager lets you easily change your monitor's brightness, contrast and colors.


Kumux is a dynamic circadian color scheme for code editors and other software. It adjust color temperature, color hues, contrast and brightness levels throughout the day based on the position of the sun.

Kumux is the most popular SaaS alternative to Vivid.

EyeSavior is Windows utility that allows changing monitor brightness from desktop. You can change monitor brightness manually or if you have hardware light sensor monitor brightness will be changed automatically according to your settings.

iBrightness Tray is a little bit of a swiss army knife display tool as adjusting the brightness of your screen is just one of three main functions it has. The other two are turning on your screensaver at the click of a button and also the ability to turn off the display...

Simple Screen Brightness is a small portable application written in C# that allows you to adjust the brightness for all of your connected monitors using a slider without having to use their difficult-to-use built-in menu systems.
