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CLUSTER BAR-BACKLIGHT-MENU · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-11

Mac keyboard backlight utilities

This cluster comprises macOS menu bar utilities focused on controlling and repurposing keyboard backlight, targeting MacBook or Keychron keyboards, with one adding AI-assistant status indication. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from; it predates the index or its members are undated. In terms of traction, keychron-macos and air75v3-agents lead with 2 stars each.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 6OCT 2026: 1
AUG 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled

Operator · 7 hobby · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01phosignal0★1 daylivehobbymacOS menu bar app that turns keyboard backlight and MagSafe LED into status lights for AI coding assistant activity.
  2. 02ack05d2★1 molivemacOS background utility that enables all keys and dial of an XP-Pen ACK05 shortcut remote and shows volume feedback.
  3. 03Headless-MacOS1★9 days—hand-codedhobbyMacOS utility that manages headless MacBooks by disabling built-in display, controlling Touch Bar brightness, fans, and keyboard backlight.
  4. 04keyglow1★25 days—hobbyCommand-line and menu-bar utility that controls MacBook keyboard backlight on headless Macs without root or SIP changes.
  5. 05dimleaf1★22 days—hobbyMenu bar app that gives older Macs a virtual low power mode by capping brightness, disabling keyboard backlight, and reducing background activity.
  6. 06keychron-macos2★1 mo—hobbymacOS menu bar utility that reports battery level and controls backlight for Keychron keyboards over Bluetooth.
  7. 07Lumos0★19 days—hobbymacOS menu bar utility that controls MacBook keyboard backlight brightness with shortcuts, Touch Bar support, and battery-saving behavior.
  8. 08air75v3-agents2★1 mo—hobbyMac menu bar app that shows coding agent activity as colored keyboard lights on a NuPhy Air75 over Bluetooth.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.