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CLUSTER BRIGHTNESS-DIMS-DESKTOP · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-10

Desktop screen dimming apps

This cluster covers desktop utilities that reduce screen brightness through backlight control or overlay dimming, often adding sun-based scheduling, multi-monitor support, hotkeys, or color temperature adjustment. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from — it predates the index or its members are undated. Among traction signals, king-panel leads with a single star, while NotTooBright and screen-dimmer-win show no stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2025: 1SEP 2026: 5OCT 2026: 2
JUL 2025OCT 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 · 6 hobby · 2 open source

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. 01WinThemeAuto1★14 dayslivehobbyWindows tray utility that automatically switches the operating system between light and dark themes on a schedule or based on sunrise and sunset.
  2. 02nightforge0★6 daysliveopen sourceDesktop utility that turns screen night light on or off, adjusts warmth, and schedules changes via a tray icon.
  3. 03astrodimmer0★23 dayslivehobbyDesktop tray app that automatically dims monitors at sunset and brightens them at sunrise according to the user's location.
  4. 04goodnight0★18 days—hobbyDesktop app that warms screen colors after sunset and dims brightness to black, with presets and automatic scheduling.
  5. 05NotTooBright0★16 days—hobbyTray app that dims desktop monitors by adjusting backlight brightness directly or falling back to a click-through overlay, with optional sun-based scheduling.
  6. 06screen-dimmer-win0★1 mo—hobbyWindows tray app that dims the screen below the hardware minimum, adjusts color temperature, and follows a sun-synced auto-brightness curve.
  7. 07ShadeFlow0★1 mo—hobbyWindows desktop app that dims display brightness with black overlays, automates multi-monitor settings, and supports hotkeys.
  8. 08Auto Shine0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceAutomatic screen brightness adjustment app that uses light sensor data to set brightness.

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.