Control your monitors
from your Mac.
No more clunky buttons. Adjust brightness, contrast, and volume of your external displays — all from your menu bar.
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First-class support for third party displays.
Get the UltraFine experience with any monitor. DisplayBuddy gives you complete control over all your displays.
Control Display Settings
Control the real brightness, contrast & even the volume of your external displays — without touching any buttons.
Create Presets
Save settings across multiple displays and restore them later with a single click. Perfect for work, movies, or gaming.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Control your display brightness using brightness keys - or your own custom shortcuts.
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Power features for professionals who demand more from their displays
Sync
Adjust brightness across all displays simultaneously with one slider
Input Sources
Switch between HDMI, DisplayPort, USB-C and more without touching your monitor
Beautiful Widgets
Add customizable widgets to your desktop for quick access to Presets
UltraBright Mode
Push your Macbook display beyond its default brightness limits for outdoor use
Apple Displays
Full support for Studio Display, Pro Display XDR, and Cinema Displays
Apple Silicon
Optimized for M1, M2, M3, M4, M5 chips with native performance
Siri & Shortcuts
Control displays with voice commands and automate with Mac Shortcuts app
Smart Monitors
Full Wi-Fi control for Samsung and LG Smart Monitors
Join thousands of people who love their displays
"DisplayBuddy makes the brightness controls work in macOS as if I were using an Apple display."
"DisplayBuddy syncs brightness from both your internal as well as external displays."
"If you've got an external display this app is absolutely life changing."
Khan Winter
Developer
"It works! Never touching the clunky button to adjust volume again."
Logan
Mac User
"Immediate buy! Works great with my Dell U2518D"
Tiago Martinho
Mac User
"This is amazing and exactly what I was looking for! Great job!"
Michael Ebinger
Mac User
"I was thrilled with DisplayBuddy. It was easy to install and it worked great with my external display."
"DisplayBuddy makes the brightness controls work in macOS as if I were using an Apple display."
"DisplayBuddy syncs brightness from both your internal as well as external displays."
"If you've got an external display this app is absolutely life changing."
Khan Winter
Developer
"It works! Never touching the clunky button to adjust volume again."
Logan
Mac User
"Immediate buy! Works great with my Dell U2518D"
Tiago Martinho
Mac User
"This is amazing and exactly what I was looking for! Great job!"
Michael Ebinger
Mac User
"I was thrilled with DisplayBuddy. It was easy to install and it worked great with my external display."
Ready to take control?
Join thousands of Mac users who love their monitors again.
- Buy once. Own forever.
- Crafted to spark joy.
- Works on Apple Silicon and Intel.
DisplayBuddy
for macOS 10.13+
Try risk-free – Full refund within 7 days, no questions asked.
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