MonitorMonitor
Brightness keys, sliders, spots and layouts for every screen you plug in.
Your Mac’s brightness keys stop at the built-in screen. MonitorMonitor gives every external monitor real hardware brightness, contrast and volume from the keyboard and the menu bar, then puts your windows where you want them: spots, saved layouts that return when you re-dock, and a Terminal cascade made for Terminal Tags. Part of the Mac Utility Bundle: $19.99 once, yours forever.
Every Mac-only utility we make
Mac Utility Bundle
one-time · yours forever
- Calebar(menu-bar calendar)included
- Barmony(menu bar organizer)included
- Sleepover(keep-awake)included
- Graf(system stats)included
- MonitorMonitor(display + window control)included
…and every Mac-only utility we add later, included.
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$19.99 once · macOS 14+ · displays need no permissions
Displays
Every screen, controlled like the built-in one
The keys, sliders and sensible defaults your Mac only gives its own display, for whatever you plug in.
Brightness keys that finally work
Your keyboard's brightness keys drive the display under the pointer, with the normal on-screen bezel, using the monitor's own hardware brightness rather than a dimming overlay. Contrast too, and volume for the monitor's own speakers when they're your audio output.
Sliders in the menu bar
One click opens a row per display: brightness, contrast, volume when the panel reports it, and an input picker for a monitor shared between two machines. No window to open, no settings to dig through.
Crisp scaling for non-Retina monitors
1440p and ultrawide panels usually mean text that's either tiny or blurry. MonitorMonitor offers a crisp scaled mode for them, and it's always Try it first: if you don't choose Keep, it reverts on its own.
Dimmer than the hardware allows
Keep pressing brightness-down at 0% and MonitorMonitor keeps going, dimming below the panel's own floor for late nights and dark rooms. Any brightness-up press brings it straight back.
Good defaults, on the moment you sign in
The settings people swear by switch on at sign-in, but only the ones that are reversible in a click and that your hardware confirmed it supports. One card lists exactly what was applied on this Mac, with a toggle per row and Undo all.
Survives sleep and re-plugging
Brightness, dimming and the mode you chose are re-applied after sleep and whenever a display reconnects, so nothing snaps back to factory settings when you come back to your desk.
Windows
Windows in their place
Spots, layouts and a cascade, so a desk full of windows sets itself up. Built alongside Terminal Tags, and it shows.
Spots
Halves, thirds, quarters, centre, maximise, or a rectangle you draw yourself, per display. The focused window goes to the spot; press again and it cycles through the variants.
Layouts that come back when you re-dock
Capture an arrangement once. It's keyed to the exact displays it was made on, so when you plug the same monitors back in, every window returns to its place without you lifting a finger.
Hotkeys for all of it
Give any spot or saved layout a hotkey and throw windows around without touching the mouse. A hotkey for switching your monitor's input is offered too, when the monitor supports it.
Cascade, built for Terminal Tags
Fans a dozen Terminal windows into a neat diagonal, stepping each one down by exactly the height of a Terminal Tags badge, so every badge stays visible and clickable. Works on any app's windows, and Undo puts them all back.
Displays need
No permissions at all
Keys, sliders, input switching, scaling and the good defaults work the moment you sign in, with zero prompts.
Windows need
One permission, asked once
Moving windows uses the window control permission. MonitorMonitor asks for it at your first window action, never before, and you can revoke it any time.
One purchase. Every update. No major-version re-buy.
MonitorMonitor is part of the Mac Utility Bundle: one $19.99 purchase that covers every Mac-only utility we make, today and down the road. There is no upgrade fee when a big version lands and no yearly cutoff on updates. If you already own the bundle, MonitorMonitor is on your account now.
Stay in the loop
Updates from MonitorMonitor
The occasional note when MonitorMonitor gets better, plus a heads-up when the next Mac Utility Bundle app lands. No noise.
Questions, Answered
Which monitors does it work with?+
Any display that answers the hardware brightness request. MonitorMonitor probes each display rather than assuming: hardware control is only offered after the monitor confirms it. Some ports, docks and adapters don't pass that control channel through; those displays get software dimming instead, and the app says so plainly rather than pretending.
Does it need any permissions?+
Not for displays. Brightness, contrast, volume, input switching, scaling and the good defaults all work with zero permission prompts. The window features (spots, layouts, cascade) ask for the window control permission the first time you move a window, and not before. You can revoke it in System Settings at any time and the display half keeps working.
Does it read my screen?+
No. MonitorMonitor never uses screen recording and never reads what's on your screen. To capture a layout it reads window positions and titles on your Mac, stores them on your Mac, and never uploads them.
What's the deal with Terminal Tags?+
Terminal Tags puts a colored badge above each terminal window. MonitorMonitor's Cascade steps a stack of windows down by exactly one badge height, so a dozen tagged Terminals fan out with every badge in view. Cascade works without Terminal Tags installed too; it just uses a plain title-bar step instead.
How does the Mac Utility Bundle work?+
One $19.99 purchase, one time. You get all five apps — MonitorMonitor, Calebar (menu-bar calendar), Barmony (menu bar organizer), Sleepover (keep-awake), and Graf (system stats) — plus every Mac-only utility we make after that. It all lives on your Bravely account, on every Mac you own. Already own the bundle? MonitorMonitor is on your account now.
Is it a subscription? What about major versions?+
No subscription, no renewals, no trial countdown, and no paid major-version upgrades. Pay $19.99 once and every update to MonitorMonitor, and everything else we add to the bundle, is yours.
Which Macs does it run on?+
MonitorMonitor runs on macOS 14 or later. Download it, drag it to your Applications folder, sign in with your Bravely account, and it settles into the menu bar from then on.