BetterDisplay for Mac
Unlock your displays on your Mac.
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BetterDisplay overview
BetterDisplay (formerly BetterDummy) is a truly wonderful tool! It let's you convert your displays to fully scalable screens, allows brightness control, provides XDR/HDR upscaling (extra brightness beyond 100% on compatible displays), full dimming to black, helps you create and manage virtual displays (dummies) for your Mac, create Picture in Picture windows of your displays and gives you a host of other features to manage your display's settings easily from the menu bar.
Features:
- Convert your internal and natively connected external displays to smoothly-scaled HiDPI displays on Apple Silicon - now even without mirroring a dummy (displays with notch, HDR, HDCP, high refresh rate fully supported)! (Pro)
- Reach the full brightness potential of your XDR or HDR display! (Pro)
- Change the display's brightness, volume and colors via software and hardware (DDC) control via sliders and native or custom keyboard shortcuts!
- Create custom HiDPI resolutions for real displays manually and redefine certain system display parameters!
- Create any number of dummies (virtual screens) with varying aspect ratios.
- Use headless Macs (servers) with any resolution and HiDPI mode for remote access.
- Create Picture in Picture window for any real or dummy displays. (Pro)
- Redirect your display's contents (real or dummy) to an other screen via streaming. (Pro)
- If you are using a big TV up close, use the bottom half of your TV as a wide screen display (off-center streaming). (Pro)
- Scale Sidecar resolutions. (Pro)
- Portrait SideCar support. (Pro)
- Better quality zooming (System Preferences»Accessibility»Zoom) or High Quality screenshots even on 1080p displays
- Easily change the resolution of your real and dummy displays via a slider (or submenu) from the menubar.
- Quickly accessible refresh rate and screen rotation menu.
- Simplify creating mirrored sets. (Pro)
- Easily move around displays relative to each other using the app menu.
- Quickly designate a display to be main display.
- Associate dummies with displays for auto connect/disconnect.
- Keyboard shortcuts for basic operations.
- Advanced keyboard shortcuts support. (Pro)
- Custom dummies (resolution, orientation, naming). (Pro)
- Create a dummy optimized for a real display. (Pro)
What's new in version 4.3.4
Fixes, Improvements
- Direct display brightness "Force EDR mode" option might cause heavy CPU usage and cause the app to hang after a longer sleep - #5441
- macOS 26.5 Shortcuts opens app Settings if there is an action from another app in the same Shortcut #5454
- Brightness nits in the OSD cannot be turned off without Pro - #5459
- Rare resolution slider crash (when resolutions list changes) - #5462
- Tools menu header upper corner rounding may fail in certain situations - #5433
- Prevent auto-hiding menu bar to hide while app menu is open - #5463
- Menu open/close tutorial stays forever if the menu bar icon is disabled in System Settings - #5453
- Glass OSD slider knob looks somewhat semi-transparent when not being dragged - #5460
- Menu "more options" chevron collapse animation missing - #5461
- Onboarding arrow animations are stuck upon first app open - #5465
Included Localizations
British English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
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BetterDisplay for Mac
$21.99
In English
Version 4.3.4
What users say about BetterDisplay
Features: 5.0
Makes using a non-apple (Dell) monitor with my Mac Mini Pro a breeze. Allow for super sharp imagery and text and imagery at any resolution setting. So much better that apple defaults for non-integer magnification levels.
Other user ratings:
Value | 5.0
Ease of use | 5.0
Reliability | 5.0
Customer support | 5.0
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Feb 4, 2026
Version: 4.1.3
I have a license for the pro version, can i update to 4.1.3?
Oct 18, 2025
Version: 4.0.4
App is crushing after update to the latest MacOs. I am using Benq MA270U monitor. Action to change resolution is ending with black screen and MacOs restart is needed. With previous MacOs version everything was OK and I was enjoying the app. 😕
Jul 23, 2025
Version: 3.5.6
PLEASE HELP!! Dell monitor stopped working/broke permanently after installing Better Display
Hi folks! Is there someone who could help me solve a self-made mess? I'd be so appreciative and grateful!!
I was experimenting with the Better Display app on my MacBook Pro, featuring M2 silicon, and somehow my Dell monitor started working in much better ways than expected. It even allowed me to control the monitor's accessories, such as brightness and volume features, directly from my Mac, which was previously not possible. I was so excited and happy that I got greedy and wanted more, so I continued exploring new settings to further enhance my experience. At some point, I became familiar with adjusting the monitor’s display EDID settings. Then, to prevent the Mac from applying True Tone and Night Shift colour schemes to the external monitor, I started playing with other settings. In the process, I ended up changing the setting to "using the external monitor as a television instead of a computer screen." When I realized that this was not what I wanted, because I was just experimenting with the settings, I tried to revert the changes I had made to the settings. However, at that point, I messed up something in the process. Now, my external display/monitor is no longer working. I've spent hours trying to fix this, but I've given up completely. My external monitor is sitting useless, and I'm stuck on a MacBook screen. I'll be happy to share all the details/steps I've taken so far to fix and address the issues that have failed.
