Lunar for Mac
Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display.
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Lunar overview
Lunar controls the same brightness that you can change by using the monitor's physical buttons.
- Sensor-based Adaptive Brightness (and contrast) based on an external light sensor
- Sync-based Adaptive Brightness (and contrast) based on the built-in light sensor of the Macbook or iMac
- Location-based Adaptive Brightness (and contrast) based on the sunrise/sunset times in your location
- App Exception list if you need more brightness for specific activities (watching movies, design work)
- Individual settings per display
- Manual controls and hotkeys for setting brightness and contrast that respect the min/max values per monitor
It doesn't interfere at all with the native adaptive brightness that macOS implements for the built-in display
It works well along Night Shift and True Tone (and f.lux if Gamma/Software controls are not used)
What’s new in version 6.8.1
Improvements
- Allow disabling the nits reading in the brightness OSD for the MacBook screen
Fixes
- Fix overlay staying on the wrong screen after changing main display or the resolution
- Fix Not conditions in Shortcuts not working correctly
- Fix XDR Contrast being applied on Unmanaged displays erroneously (resulting in darkening of monitors when XDR was enabled)
- Remove unnecessary brightness refresh when some background apps are launched/quit
Features
- New Get ambient light in lux Shortcut action
- Make lunar displays CLI faster in specific scenarios
- Add -q/--quiet to lunar displays to quickly check if specific displays are connected or not
Lunar for Mac
$23.00
In English
Version 6.8.1
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Mar 22 2024
Version: 6.7.2
$23 for Pro version, 14 day trial. Free version features: • DDC Controls • Sub-zero dimming • Fallback when DDC fails • Brightness keys support • Volume keys support • Command-line integration • Input switching • Multi-monitor support. - - Pro version adds 10 more features. See the Dev site for full details.
Feb 5 2022
Version: 5.3.0
NOTE: Versions 4.0 onward will NOT work with macOS 10.14. Stick with v3.2.3. There's an error in the coding for v3.2.3 that thinks it can be updated to v4.0.2. Do NOT do it, because the result is that Lunar 4 will ask for Accessibility permission, then permanently CRASH. Stick with v3.2.3. You can download v3.2.3 from the dev's website.
Nov 20 2021
Version: 5.0.5
For the first time, I can control the external monitor on my Mac M1 Mini. Awesome, and thanks for the great software!
