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CLUSTER BAR-MACOS-MENU-5 · 39 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-15

macOS display menu bar apps

This cluster consists of macOS menu bar utilities for controlling display and appearance settings, including resolution, brightness, HDR, volume, and light/dark mode. The dated history before the index start is too thin to read a shape from—there were zero dated entries—so the cluster's origins are either earlier than the index or its members are undated. Activity is led by WandelBar (17 stars), followed by OmniMac (13 stars) and eink-assistant (12 stars).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 4SEP 2026: 29OCT 2026: 6
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 · 4 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled

Operator · 18 hobby · 1 indie · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01MacTV69★23 days—hobbyMac menu bar app that controls TV volume, input source, and menus over HDMI-CEC for using a TV as a Mac display.
  2. 02eink-assistant12★1 molivehobbymacOS menu bar app that boosts color saturation and enhances shadows on e-ink displays for better readability.
  3. 03BHDisplay2★6 daysliveindieA macOS menu-bar app that switches a monitor between two computers and adjusts its brightness, contrast, and other settings.
  4. 04Shade2★18 days—hobbymacOS menu bar utility that applies a customizable translucent color overlay to the screen to reduce brightness and tint displays.
  5. 05MacSwitch2★24 days—hobbymacOS menu bar utility for toggling system settings, cleaning the screen, and controlling volume per application.
  6. 06MonitorKeys2★13 days—hand-codedhobbymacOS menu bar utility that restores keyboard volume and mute controls for monitors connected over HDMI or DisplayPort on Apple Silicon Macs.
  7. 07lumos1★5 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that pushes MacBook Pro XDR displays past the normal SDR brightness limit for the whole screen.
  8. 08redmi-g-pro-27u-monitorswitch1★6 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that controls a smart monitor's input source, backlight, and volume over wireless ADB.
  9. 09kalfa1★17 days—hobbymacOS menu bar utility that manages display resolution, HiDPI mode, brightness, audio devices, sleep prevention, disk cleanup, app removal, and blocked-site access from one panel.
  10. 10DisplayVolumeKeys1★16 days—hand-codedhobbymacOS menu bar app that lets users control external display volume with keyboard keys via DDC/CI, with a native HUD.
  11. 11MiBar6★1 molivehobbymacOS menu bar app that controls a Xiaomi smart monitor light's power, brightness, color temperature, and presets over the local network.
  12. 12menubar-ddc-control0★11 days—hobbyMenu bar app that adjusts monitor brightness, contrast, and color presets on macOS via DDC/CI.
  13. 13yayas-space-mac0★18 days—hobbymacOS menu-bar toolkit that combines volume controls, system monitoring, window management, clipboard tools, screen capture, and keep-awake features.
  14. 14hp-professor1-dpi0★6 days—hand-codedhobbymacOS menu-bar utility that shows the current DPI of an HP Professor 1 mouse and allows DPI changes via the USB receiver.
  15. 15idasen-macos0★11 dayslivehobbymacOS menu bar app that controls IKEA IDÅSEN standing desks over Bluetooth with height presets, keyboard shortcuts, and sitting and standing statistics.
  16. 16divee0★10 dayslivemacOS menu bar app that provides quick access to Mac settings like fans, brightness, battery, and clipboard history via a cascading menu.
  17. 17Umbra0★10 dayslivehobbyMenu bar app for macOS that controls brightness, contrast, volume, input, and power of internal and external monitors.
  18. 18display-mini0★1 day—hobbymacOS menu bar utility that adjusts display brightness, resolution, external monitor volume, and connection settings via native controls and hardware dimming.
  19. 19xdr-brightness0★20 days—hand-codedhobbymacOS menu bar app that unlocks additional HDR brightness headroom on XDR displays for standard SDR content system-wide.
  20. 20nits0★11 days—hobbymacOS menu-bar app that controls external monitor brightness, contrast and volume over DDC/CI and makes keyboard brightness controls more precise.

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.