headroom
Use the full brightness of your MacBook Pro's XDR display, everywhere. Free, open-source alternative to Vivid.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 30 upvotes (top 77%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The menu-bar UI and settings are easy to vibe-code, but the brightness boost depends on undocumented macOS display-headroom and EDR/XDR rendering behavior that the AI must be steered through by someone who understands Metal and display pipelines.
What it would actually take: A real version is a Swift/AppKit menu-bar app that renders a full-brightness overlay or EDR-capable layer through Metal or CoreGraphics, with logic to detect screen content and adjust per-display. The hard part is finding and reliably using the private or lightly documented headroom APIs across macOS versions, which needs display-pipeline and Apple-platform expertise and extensive testing on XDR hardware.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 275 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #254 of 276 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 343 days after the earliest competitor.
- LogoLight · github · 2026-11-07 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Screen Bright · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Asight · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MacBook-Logo-Toggle · github · 2026-11-08 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- So Very Bright · ph · 2026-09-09 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Glance for Mac · ph · 2026-10-20 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- EdgeBar · ph · 2026-11-06 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- MacGlow · hn · 2025-11-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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