BetterDisplay for Mac
Unlock your displays on your Mac.
Free
In English
Version 3.0.5When 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 3.0.5
Enhancements
- Add option to quickly toggle software image adjustments on/off (except for brightness) - #3219
- Add keyboard shortcut and CLI feature to quickly toggle software image adjustments on/off - #3347
- Holding SHIFT or OPTION keys allow skip snapping to snap points during slider adjustments - for added precision - #3215
- Add UI for EDID write to hardware devices on Intel Macs as well - #3303
- Disallow i2c EDID features for EDIDs larger than 256 bytes - #3336
- Add Vendor+Serial as Display identification method for Samsung TVs so they retain settings when switched to different modes (PC, Game etc) - #3345
- Move framebuffer options (normal, inverted, grayscale) under the Color Mode menu - #3357
- Add a note about configuration protection to make color mode changes persistent - #3359
- Various performance improvements
Fixed
- Reduce CPU usage and memory footprint when app UI is not on-screen - #3346
- Third Party External display's software brightness setting may turn to zero when switching from HDR to SDR mode on Sequoia - #3351
- Display Mode menu flickers when presented with a certain number of resolutions - #3344
- App fails to reapply last set DDC value on wake when Reapply DDC settings on wake is enabled (for displays that forget DDC settings on sleep) - #3350
- Clicking on the app menu icon directly above the top-center of the app menu might not register the menu close action - #3355
- DDC value 65535 won't be set by the app when using slider based controls - #3352
- The CLI parameter -connectionMode crashes the app with some mode identifiers (exceeding Int32.max) - #3356
BetterDisplay for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.0.5
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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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 ?
Sep 27 2023
Version: 2.0.10
Very nice. Looks great.
There are so many features and I don't even know what some of them are and how to benefit from them. Perhaps a video to explain and demonstrate before and after applying the feature? That would be great.
Thanks.
