BetterDisplay 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)
Compatibility: macOS 12.4 or later
This version provides improved compatibility with the initial release of macOS Sonoma and contains some minor enhancements/fixes based on the feedback received for the previous version.
BetterDisplay 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.
Create a dummy optimized for a real display. (Pro)
What’s New:
Version 2.0.1 pre-release:
Notes for the pre-release version
You can have this pre-release version and the stable v1.x versions installed side-by-side (but they should not be running at the same time) as they don’t affect each other’s settings. So there is no harm in downloading and trying this version.
The v2.x version requires macOS 12.4 Monterey or newer (for earlier macOS versions all the way back to Mojave the v1.x app version will be offered).
The v2.x version of the app is not compatible with a previously installed BetterDisplay v1.x, a direct update is not possible.
You will need to set-up accessibility privileges for the v2.x version of the app even if you have it configured for the v1.x version.
Future v2.x pre-release versions will not be able to read the stored settings of this version! You might need to set things up again with upcoming pre-release versions!
The v1.x app versions will not auto-update to the v2.x version (even on the beta channel).
There might be severe bugs. Major parts of the app was rewritten (the process is ongoing) and not everything is fully tested – some still unfinished parts are just hidden from the UI but are lurking there and might cause trouble.
This is not the final form of the v2.x version. Many of the planned new features/enhancements are missing.
Enhancements
This version now uses the terminology “virtual screen” instead of “dummy”
Fixed
App crashes upon startup on Apple Silicon Macs with HDMI connected display
BetterDisplay 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.
BetterDisplay 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.
BetterDisplay 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.
