BetterDisplay for Mac
Unlock your displays on your Mac.
Free
In English
Version 3.3.2When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
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 3.3.2
Enhancements
- Provide a nicer check for update experience for Settings and the app menu - #2811
- Add option to automatically download and install updates - #3906
- Add new update available indicators to the menubar bottom bar and Settings menu bar (next to About) - #3923
- Show update availability in the app status menu icon - #3925
- New app update should show Dock icon (if enabled) with an update badge - #3926
- Show notification in the notification center about an app update - #3927
- Implement a less intrusive way to show new updates after scheduled background checks - #1459
- Rolling Pro activation (automatically deactivate oldest activation when the user runs out of license seats) - #3893
- Add UI feature to deactivate all and all other Pro activations - #3895, #3900
- Show the number of activations for a license key under the Pro tab - #3897
- Add manageLicense -activationsJSON command for app binary CLI to get the list of Pro activations in a proper JSON format - #3918
- Show a clear license issue error on the Pro tab when the Pro license is remotely deactivated or hardware identifiers have changed (for example due to using Migration Assistant) - #3929
- Keyboard shortcut to toggle brightness upscaling for a display - #3888
- Update default menu bar icon with a vector based variant - #3924
- Make the native brightness upscaling nits counter inflating effect optional + disabled by default - #3928
- Add silent option to disable spinning ring on cursor on screen stream when the mouse is hovering over the stream - #3912
- Workaround for macOS bug mirrored virtual screens have laggy or sometimes unresponsive mouse cursor - #807 - thanks to @dave-fl for the contribution!
- Workaround for macOS bug virtual screens mirrored to built-in displays do not properly update brightness level on change (even with native control) - #3931
Fixed
- Paddle manage license sheet may show Pro as activated even when it is not - #3892
- An extra close bracket is added to -identifier=name CLI query result - #3905
- Menu bar icon moves to leftmost position after app restart - #3932
BetterDisplay for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.3.2
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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(14 Reviews of BetterDisplay)
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User Ratings
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.
Dec 26 2023
Version: 2.1.3
Just installed the app on my mac mini. Brightness controls work great. Sound controls aren't working, although the on-screen sound bars are moving.
Nov 11 2023
Version: 2.0.11
I use a Mac Studio Max, first with Monterey now Sonoma OS, with 2 Dell monitors thru the regular ports and one Asus gaming monitor thru a USB port.
The Asus monitor has been blinkning and flickering since day one a year ago. There has been no way to alter this, changing the resolution or update frequency did not help.
Then, TA-DA, installed this app last week and the problem was gone! Didn’t have to change anytning or do any adjustments.
I’m happy, now my third monitor works as intended.
Oct 26 2023
Version: 2.0.11
Question: I want to rotate my monitor in front of the teleprompter. is this possible with BetterDisplay ?
