Top 15 Shady Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Shady puts a shade over your screen to help soothe your tired or dazzled eyes. You can use it to reduce your Mac's brightness far below the usual minimum, without any risk of damage to your screen.

Shady lets you pull a virtual shade over your screen (or screens, if you have more than one - Shady covers them all), dimming the display to a more comfortable level.

The shade will ignore your mouse clicks, naturally, so you can continue to use your Mac as usual.

1. Dimmer Than Dim

Dimmer Than Dim Are you suffering from eye strains for staring at the screen for a long time? Dimmer than Dim helps you to reduce eye strains and radiation by breaking the brightness limit of your screen settings. More often than not, you'll find that even using the minimum brightness level is still......

2. xcalib

xcalib Controls settings from the command line for computer monitors that support the Display Data Channel Command Interface (most monitors do). For example, dim the contrast, restore the contrast setting, Change RGB settings. Examples:-- Set contrast to 80 per cent of present contrastxcalib -co 80 -a -- I assign to Alt+C......

3. Lumen

Lumen Lumen - magic auto brightness based on screen contents. You control Lumen simply by using your brightness keys - it'll automatically learn your preferences.Lumen will automatically brighten the screen when you're looking at a dark window (for example, a full-screen terminal) and it'll automatically darken the screen when you're looking......

4. NightTone

NightTone NightTone makes your screen more comfortable, enjoyable and healthier by shifting the colors of your display to a warmer, eye-friendly palette. It makes you sleep and feel better.......

5. Iris mini

Iris mini Iris mini is free and minimalistic version of Iris. Small. Minimalistic. Free. Portable. Automatic. Awesome for everyone. Just double click and it will work.......

6. iBrightness Tray

iBrightness Tray iBrightness Tray is a little bit of a swiss army knife display tool as adjusting the brightness of your screen is just one of three main functions it has. The other two are turning on your screensaver at the click of a button and also the ability to turn off......

7. Monitor Bright

Monitor Bright Monitor Bright reduces with a simple trick the monitor brightness. Useful to use the PC at night without getting blind if the minimum brightness that can be obtained adjusting monitor settings is still too high if compared to ambience brightness. Supports multi monitor systems.......

8. Atrise Lutcurve

Atrise Lutcurve This program will help you to calibrate your display without a hardware calibrator device. High accuracy calibration is achieved by the high sensitivity of the human eye to neutral-color shades. As compared to other programs in this class, Lutcurve has high accuracy and flexibility in configuring virtually any monitor. This......

9. PangoBright

PangoBright Screen dimming software that allows you to control the brightness of your screens as well as external monitors.......

10. Smart Profiles

Smart Profiles Smart Profiles is AnTuTu App!Auto change profile! Time scheduler profile!AnTuTu Smart Profiles lets you manipulate your phone's volumes & settings all in one.For example: meeting (silent), outdoor (out loud), and other system adjustment function, allowing you to enable mobile phone on different occasions, the corresponding function.You can adjust your phones......

11. RedshiftGUI by IrisTech

RedshiftGUI by IrisTech Redshift GUI changes the color temperature of your monitor to better match that of your surrounding. This means that it sets a cooler color temperature during the daytime (due to natural lighting) and sets a warmer temperature at night (due to indoor lighting). Similar to f.lux, this is a GUI......

12. DimScreen

DimScreen Form 1 Hour Software by skrommel, it can dim the screen by applying a transparent gray layer on top of your opened applications......

13. Battery Mode

Battery Mode Replaces Windows default battery indicator to a more powerful and useful one.It provides backlight control, easy power scheme selection, detailed battery information and a lot of handy features for customization.Advanced Power Scheme Selection* Battery Mode allows you to change current power scheme right from the battery popup window.* Unlike the......

14. Night Screen / Blackbulb

Night Screen / Blackbulb Night Screen helps protect your eyes from screen light on Android devices. Adjust brightness and screen color to prevent your eyes from being hurt by screen light.......

15. ClickMonitorDCC

ClickMonitorDCC ClickMonitorDDC lets you easily control monitor settings like bright and contrast, by using your keyboard or mouse. It can adjust brightness and contrast of external monitors by using DDC-protocol over monitor-cable (DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, VGA). Nearly all monitors support DDC-protocol, but some monitors may not work because of faulty or......