Brisync Alternatives

Brisync is described as 'Synchronize your external monitor brightness with built-in display. Application reads current brightness of your built-in display and passes it to external monitors via DDC interface. You can adjust brightness by menu in system status bar' and is an app. There are more than 50 alternatives to Brisync for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Wayland apps. The best Brisync alternative is f.lux, which is free. Other great apps like Brisync are Twinkle Tray, Redshift, Solace and LightBulb.

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  1. f.lux icon
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    Software that makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

    60 f.lux alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  2. Twinkle Tray icon
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    Twinkle Tray enables brightness control on external displays in Windows 10 & 11. Even th Windows is capable of adjusting the backlight on most monitors, it doesn't support external monitors natively.

    33 Twinkle Tray alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. Redshift icon
     258 likes

    Redshift adjusts the color temperature according to the position of the sun. A different color temperature is set during night and daytime.

    50 Redshift alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. Solace icon
     7 likes

    Automatically changes Mac appearance using real-time weather, sunlight, and time data for light and dark modes, dynamic wallpapers, and color temperature, with on-device privacy, menu bar access, no subscriptions, and no analytics for seamless daily comfort.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Solace screenshot 1
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  5. Red Moon icon
     54 likes

    The app is free on F-Droid and on GitHub but you can buy it on the Google Play Store to support the developer.

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  6. Dimly icon
     8 likes

    Open-source macOS menu utility for unified brightness, blackout, and sleep control of external monitors, using hybrid DDC/CI and software overlays, per-display settings, custom profiles, hotkeys, panic shortcut, privacy by design, and secure signed builds.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. MonitorControl icon
     20 likes

    🖥 Control your external monitor brightness & volume on your Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. RedshiftGUI icon
     92 likes

    RedshiftGUI changes the color temperature of your monitor to better match that of your surrounding. This means that it sets a cooler color temperature during the daytime (due to natural lighting) and sets a warmer temperature at night (due to indoor lighting). Similar to f.

    47 RedshiftGUI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Dimmer icon
     29 likes

    Adjust the brightness of all monitors, screens and displays.

    69 Dimmer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10.  2 likes

    Most monitors, other than laptop displays, have a Virtual Control Panel (VCP), which implements features defined in the Montor Control Command Set (MCCS). Typically, ddcutil communicates with the monitor's VCP over an I2C bus, as per the Display Data Channel/Command...

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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