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Your Mac’s Brightness Keys, Now for Every Connected Monitors
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Mac doesn’t make it easy to control external display brightness. We do. Adjust your monitor brightness right from your Mac, exactly when you need it. Point your mouse at any screen. Press the MacBook brightness keys. That display dims or brightens — any connected monitor, seamlessly.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop and display utilities · 171 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
- Apple
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Could you build this?
Partial Controlling third-party external monitor brightness from macOS requires low-level DDC/CI communication over I2C/DisplayPort busses and intercepting macOS system-level hardware brightness events.
What it would actually take: This utility requires a native Swift/Objective-C macOS app leveraging IOKit and CoreGraphics private/system APIs to communicate via DDC/CI (I2C requests over DisplayPort/HDMI). The hardest parts are handling proprietary Apple Silicon display controller quirks, managing DDC timing sensitivities across hundreds of disparate monitor models, and establishing an event tap to intercept media brightness keys globally.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 620 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #249 of 621 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tejora · ph · 2026-09-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- MacGlow · hn · 2025-11-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Oh My Focus · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Lumadio · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- EdgeBar · ph · 2026-11-06 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- ChillScreen · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- LogoLight · github · 2026-11-07 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Brightness Control · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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