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OpenMacShade is a tiny macOS menu bar app that makes your screen appear darker using only a click-through black overlay. Unlike feature-heavy display tools, it does not use hardware brightness control, DDC/CI, gamma changes, private APIs, permissions, telemetry, or network access. It is open source and intentionally simple: one slider, one overlay, nothing else.
Hi Product Hunt!
I built OpenMacShade because I wanted a very small way to make my Mac mini’s external display look darker without using a large monitor-control utility.
OpenMacShade is intentionally simple: it is a macOS menu bar app with one slider, and it dims the screen using only a click-through black overlay.
It does not use DDC/CI, gamma changes, private APIs, system permissions, telemetry, or network access.
This is an early open-source release, currently tested on my Mac mini running macOS 15. I would especially appreciate feedback from MacBook, Apple Silicon, and multi-display users.
The source code and build instructions are available on GitHub. Thanks for checking it out!
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About OpenMacScreenShade on Product Hunt
“A tiny open-source screen dimmer for macOS”
OpenMacScreenShade was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #75 on the daily leaderboard. OpenMacShade is a tiny macOS menu bar app that makes your screen appear darker using only a click-through black overlay. Unlike feature-heavy display tools, it does not use hardware brightness control, DDC/CI, gamma changes, private APIs, permissions, telemetry, or network access. It is open source and intentionally simple: one slider, one overlay, nothing else.
OpenMacScreenShade was featured in Open Source (68.5k followers) and GitHub (41.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 35.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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