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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 · 7 hand-coded · 12 unlabelled

Operator · 17 hobby · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 19 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 21Candela3★1 mo—A macOS menu bar utility for adjusting the brightness and volume of every connected display.
  2. 22ScreenBright0★25 days—hobbyMac menu bar app that adjusts external monitor brightness using gamma-table dimming when normal monitor brightness control fails.
  3. 23Ekran0★20 days—hand-codedhobbymacOS menu bar app that manages display settings including HiDPI scaling, brightness control, virtual screens, and presets.
  4. 24TuneC0★13 days—hobbymacOS menu bar utility that lets users control external monitor volume and brightness with keyboard shortcuts and the scroll wheel.
  5. 25mac-dynamic-lighting0★9 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that controls RGB lighting on compatible HID LampArray devices and reapplies settings after sleep or reconnect.
  6. 26lidlux0★14 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that reads the built-in ambient light sensor and automatically adjusts display brightness on built-in and external monitors.
  7. 27TrueTone0★15 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that adjusts an external monitor's white point and backlight to match ambient room light from a MacBook sensor.
  8. 28maccontrol0★16 days—hobbymacOS menu bar utility that adjusts display brightness and audio volume, switches the default browser, and includes a mouse jiggler.
  9. 29ThemeSwitch2★1 mo—hand-codedhobbymacOS menu bar app that switches system appearance between Auto, Light, and Dark modes.
  10. 30TerminalGlass2★1 mo—hobbymacOS utility that adjusts Terminal transparency, blur, and background colors through a native control panel.
  11. 31EZDisplay0★16 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that switches display resolution, refresh rate, HDR, and mirroring, including modes hidden by System Settings.
  12. 32RazerMouse1★1 mo—hobbyMenu-bar utility for macOS that lets Razer mouse owners adjust DPI, polling rate, power settings, and lighting.
  13. 33glisse0★20 days—hand-codedhobbymacOS menu-bar utility that turns trackpad edges into invisible sliders for controlling brightness and volume.
  14. 34LookSize0★25 days—hand-codedmacOS menu bar utility that displays image dimensions and video resolution/frame rate in Finder Quick Look.
  15. 35sideband1★1 mo—hobbymacOS menu bar utility that controls external displays over DDC/CI, queries each monitor's capabilities, and reads its actual current values.
  16. 36screen-ruler0★27 days—hand-codedhobbymacOS menu-bar reading ruler that dims the screen except for a bright line following the pointer to aid reading.
  17. 3713k-eink-control0★26 dayslivehand-codedhobbymacOS menu-bar controller for an e-ink monitor that adjusts display modes, contrast, front light, and touch input.
  18. 38MacDisplaySync0★29 days—hobbymacOS menu-bar utility that controls external monitor hardware settings such as brightness, volume, and color via DDC/CI.
  19. 39lumen0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyMenu bar app that controls external monitor brightness over DDC/CI with a tiny footprint.

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