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BetterDisplay
BetterDisplay
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BetterDisplay free download for Mac

BetterDisplay

Version 1.4.13

Unlock your displays on your Mac.

4.4
Based on 9 user ratesRead reviews & comments
Free
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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 1.4.13

Updated on May 24 2023

Enhancements
  • Add additional DCC input options for displays that use input identifier higher than existing maximum - #1854
  • Restore contrast setting after screensaver (some screensavers might interfere) - #1849
  • Hide resolutions by default that do not conform to dummy's selected aspect ratio from the Set Resolution menu on Intel - #1767
  • Add Intel specific warnings for connect/disconnect feature on Intel - #1856
Fixed
  • BetterDisplay hangs on some systems when all displays are disconnected - #1844
  • Continuous XDR upscaling readiness - explanation clarity - #1855
  • Built-in display can be connected in clamshell mode when lid is closed after disconnecting the display - #1858
  • Remove "Disconnect built-in display when an external display is connected" option for Intel as it does not work - #1857
  • Swap Identical Display Positions option does not appear when connection management is disabled - #1859
  • Erroneous 1x1 dummy resolution appears on Intel - #1860

Information

License

Free

Size

6.8 MB

Downloads

13048

App requirements

  • Intel 64
  • Apple Silicon
  • macOS 10.14.6 or later
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What customer like

Performance

What needs improvements

Design
Social media integration

BetterDisplay qualities

Value
5.0
Ease of use
5.0
Features
4.5
Reliability
5.0
Customer support
5.0

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igorerp
igorerp
Mar 19 2023
1.4.6
0.0
Mar 19 2023
0.0
Version: 1.4.6
Awfull !!! This app creates a virtual display (dummy) which halves refresh rate of your monitor !!!
radfaraf
radfaraf
Feb 26 2023
1.4.3
5.0
Feb 26 2023
5.0
Version: 1.4.3
Perfect for scaling a 4k monitor image to a good usable size without loss in quality.
fastrip66
fastrip66
Feb 17 2023
1.4.3
0.0
Feb 17 2023
0.0
Version: 1.4.3
Pretty amazing app. It can be a little hard to "get" at first and I still haven't understood all of it's capabilities and when you uninstall should you decide to, there are several steps to delete remnants etc to get the displays working back to normal in the display control panel. Definitely a lil "how-to" needed to fully understand it and it's not for everyone but it works amazingly well at what it does also.....just know it can be a bit weird to recover from should you uninstall it for whatever reason, check the github on what to restore and how to do so if things still don't act right in the display preferences of Monterey or even Ventura.
disturbia
disturbia
Jan 18 2023
1.3.10
0.0
Jan 18 2023
0.0
Version: 1.3.10
How do I increase the brightness beyond 100% now? I came from a licensed version o Better Dummy which allowed me to drag a slider way past 100. Now it is capped at that in Better Display. Is it built differently now?
anzeek
anzeek
Oct 25 2022
1.3.4
0.0
Oct 25 2022
0.0
Version: 1.3.4
does it work on new ventura? thnx! apple should take care of natively..... u are doing good job!
ivryernest
ivryernest
Aug 23 2022
1.2.9
0.0
Aug 23 2022
0.0
Version: 1.2.9
I will never use an app called BetterDummy, which even after its name change (why?) continues to refer to its functions as "dummys".
k3725219
k3725219
Dec 30 2021
1.0.13
0.0
Dec 30 2021
0.0
Version: 1.0.13
Thank you so much for creating this app. I apologize for saying this while using it for free, but there is a little mouse delay because mirroring is used when using it. It would be very good if you could technically supplement this part and switch it to a paid one.
sids
sids
May 18 2023
1.4.12
1.0
May 18 2023
1.0
Version: 1.4.12
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
May 16 2023
1.4.12
4.0
May 16 2023
4.0
Version: 1.4.12
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Mar 17 2023
1.4.6
5.0
Mar 17 2023
5.0
Version: 1.4.6
radfaraf
radfaraf
Feb 26 2023
1.4.3
5.0
Feb 26 2023
5.0
Version: 1.4.3
Remote
Remote
Feb 3 2023
1.3.16
5.0
Feb 3 2023
5.0
Version: 1.3.16
Vyggo
Vyggo
Jun 27 2022
1.2.7
5.0
Jun 27 2022
5.0
Version: 1.2.7
bongolan
bongolan
Feb 25 2022
1.0.13
5.0
Feb 25 2022
5.0
Version: 1.0.13
Jefrart
Jefrart
Jan 8 2022
1.0.13
5.0
Jan 8 2022
5.0
Version: 1.0.13
waydabber
waydabber
Nov 21 2021
1.0.10
5.0
Nov 21 2021
5.0
Version: 1.0.10
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