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Lumos is a free, open-source menu bar app that automatically adjusts your Mac's brightness based on on-screen content — dimming for bright pages, brightening for dark editors. It learns your preferences over time. Support external monitors out of the box.
I built Lumos because I was tired of manually cranking my brightness down every time I opened a bright doc, then back up for my dark-themed editor.
What it does:
Lumos watches your screen content and adjusts backlight in real time to keep perceived brightness consistent — dim for bright pages, bright for dark editors. It's not just a fixed rule either: every time you manually adjust brightness, Lumos remembers what you wanted for that kind of content and refines its curve.
A few noteable features:
- 100% local — no telemetry, no cloud processing, nothing transmitted
- Per-app pause, so brightness stays fixed for video players, photo editors, etc.
- Independent brightness memory per display (built-in + external via DDC/CI)
- Free and fully open source (MIT)
Requirements: Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 14+, and Screen Recording permission (used only to measure perceptual brightness, not to view/store anything).
Install via Homebrew or grab the DMG from the GitHub releases. Would love feedback, bug reports, or feature ideas — I'm actively building this and reading every comment today!
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About Lumos on Product Hunt
“Content-adaptive display brightness for macOS”
Lumos was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #105 on the daily leaderboard. Lumos is a free, open-source menu bar app that automatically adjusts your Mac's brightness based on on-screen content — dimming for bright pages, brightening for dark editors. It learns your preferences over time. Support external monitors out of the box.
Lumos was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Open Source (68.7k followers), GitHub (41.4k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 53.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Lumos?
Lumos was hunted by Lennart Brocki. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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