BetterDisplay for 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 4.2.3
Enhancements
- Added option to show brightness in nits in the OSD for supported displays - #5053
- Added keyboard shortcut support for LG webOS and Yamaha AVR input source changes - #5127
- Added macOS Shortcuts support for DDC, LG webOS and Yamaha AVR managed input source changes - #5128
- Support for managed Input Source using CLI - #5110
- Implement 2-pass wake for networked devices to compensate for slow-waking network cards - #5118
- Added a way to list configured controllers for a display using CLI - #5113
- Input switch on wake should not depend on enabled power control (to make this feature work with HDMI-CEC) - #5119
- Added non-persistent connection mode for LG webOS - #4943
- Added an option to disable DisplayLink auto-discovery and avoid discovery when launching in safe mode - #5126
- Added CLI for (experimental) and macOS Shortcuts support for compositor filters - #5132
- Added option to manually enter MAC address and specify WOL broadcast address for LG webOS - #5140
- Added option for a third delayed WOL after wake for LG webOS - #5141
- Command+W and Command+H should close/hide PIP windows - #5153
- Updated the DNC prefix to match the bundle identifier (while maintaining compatibility) - #5136
- Added keyboard shortcut for "Redetect Displays" - #5035
- Added an option to always show OSD on main display regardless of affected device and window/menu bar with focus location - #4922
- BetterDisplay open/close notifications for 3rd party integrations - #5174
- Improved memory management - #5147
Fixed
- Full screen PIP window issues - window cannot be closed, stopping stream results in blank space, some other interaction (minimize etc) may cause crash - #5155
- Third Party App OSD integration unavailable without Pro - #5102
- CLI bool set operations should not return Failed when the setting is already in the desired state - #5111
- LG webOS persistent connection silent failure - #5131
- Volume value not adjusted with configured maximum when getting volume from LG webOS device - #5133
- The LG webOS controller asks about a PIN code on the "Philips TV" during pairing... - #5134
- LG and Samsung wake (WOL) does not work if the user provides a hostname instead of an IP address - #5139
- URL scheme toggle operation requires empty parameter value - #5149
- Built-in HTTP server may cause a crash - #5154
- WOL logic may crash if hostname is provided instead of IP address for a networked device - #5165
- Delayed check timeout for Apple control capability may be too short resulting in lack of Apple hardware control on newly connected external Apple displays - #5187
- An invalid '0' or '1' is shown as native XDR brightness upscaling OSD nits value on macOS 26.2 and older in v4.2.2 - #5192
Included Localizations
- British English (@PuzzledUser)
- Chinese, Simplified (@BingoKingo, @shindgewongxj, @hshsilver, @jacktechstudio)
- Chinese, Traditional (@old-cookie, @moriLiu)
- Dutch (@dvanzoerlandt)
- French (@Kcraft059, @MonolitheMedia)
- German (@mickimnet, @dotWee, @niklasbogensperger, @sm-moshi)
- Hungarian (@sup3rb3ar)
- Italian (@MapleLeaf14)
- Japanese (@SakiPapa)
- Korean (@hw0603, @chihuahua-experience)
- Norwegian Bokmål (@elislays08)
- Polish (@MStankiewiczOfficial, @PatrykM13, @brzenio, @enormous-rat, @marcinkardas, @skantek)
- Portuguese, Brazil (@gpnunes75, @giulianopires)
- Romanian (@mikevic18, @cristianritco)
- Russian (@dimaitre, @pavlik000-collab, @AndryTi)
- Slovenian (@DrRoglaa)
- Spanish (@stonkol, @cfuentea, @maximsenterprise)
- Swedish (@yeager)
- Turkish (@MazlumSerbest, @ibrayd, @afkeceli)
- Ukrainian (@JulyIghor)
- Vietnamese (@andrwmai, @HaiBliss)
BetterDisplay for Mac
$21.99
In English
Version 4.2.3
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.
May 3 2024
Version: 2.3.2
I use this to quickly switch my monitor input to another connected Mac or PS5. Saves me navigating the convoluted monitor menus.
