DisplayDial – Every display. One dial. The display control for macOS.
I use an external monitor every day, and whenever I worked late into the night, the screen was often too bright.
Adjusting it meant reaching behind the monitor, finding the tiny buttons, navigating clunky OSD menus, and doing it all over again the next evening.
It always felt like something that should have been as simple as changing the Mac’s built-in display brightness.
So I built DisplayDial.
It puts every display’s controls in the macOS menu bar and talks directly to supported monitors using DDC/CI, so you’re changing the monitor’s actual hardware brightness. If your monitor doesn’t support DDC/CI, DisplayDial automatically falls back to a high quality gamma dimming mode.
Some of the features:
- Brightness, contrast, and volume for each display
- Presets for different setups (Work, Movie, Night, etc.)
- Follow the Sun mode that automatically adjusts brightness throughout the day
- Scheduled presets based on time, sunrise, or sunset
- Sync brightness across multiple monitors
- Extended dimming for displays that won’t go dark enough
- Resolution, refresh rate, rotation, and input switching
- Native Apple Silicon app
I built it because I wanted display controls to feel like something macOS should have had from the beginning.
I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback from fellow Mac users, especially anyone using external monitors.
Website: https://lucidbit.app/DisplayDial/displaydial.html
Download (7-day free trial): https://lucidbit.app/downloads/DisplayDial.dmg
It’s a one-time purchase ($6.99). For the launch, you can use code DDLAUNCH to get it for $4.99 (first 50 redemptions)
