10 Best Free Monitor Brightness Control Software [Free & Paid]
Adjusting your monitor’s brightness and contrast is crucial for reducing eye strain and enhancing comfort. Whether you’re working for long hours or gaming, using the right software can make a noticeable difference. Here are the best tools for adjusting your monitor’s brightness and contrast.
Best Monitor Brightness and Contrast Adjustment Tools
1. ClickMonitorDDC
A powerful tool for adjusting your monitor’s settings, including brightness and contrast. It remains effective on modern systems.
2. Win10 Brightness Slider
A simple, open-source utility that provides a brightness slider from the system tray. It works on Windows 7, 8.1, and 10.
3. f.lux
An actively maintained app that adjusts your screen’s color temperature based on the time of day, reducing eye strain.
4. ScreenBright
A portable tool that lets you adjust brightness, contrast, luminance, and color temperature (if your display supports DDC/CI).
5. Gammy
A modern tool that automatically adjusts screen brightness by analyzing on-screen content through periodic screenshots.
6. Eye Saver
Offers features like scheduled breaks and application-specific settings, along with brightness and color temperature adjustments.
7. Free Monitor Manager
Provides basic adjustments, selectable profiles, and multiple monitor support, though advanced features are locked behind a paid version.
8. Iris (Mini)
Reduces eye strain by managing blue light and adjusting brightness. The free “Mini” version offers essential features with an intuitive interface.
9. LightBulb
A free, open-source app that automatically adjusts your screen’s color temperature and brightness based on the time of day. Lightweight and easy to use.
10. CareUEyes
Protects your eyes by regulating brightness and reducing blue light exposure. It also includes customizable break reminders and supports the latest Windows versions.
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Conclusion
Adjusting your monitor’s brightness and contrast is essential for comfort and eye health, especially during long hours of use.
With these tools, you can easily customize your display settings to suit your needs. Whether you’re looking for simple solutions like Win10 Brightness Slider or more advanced options such as f.lux or Eye Saver, there’s a tool for every preference.
Hi,
Is there any software that allows to manage the picture mode (like movie-normal-nightmode functions of monitor that are normally accessible only by buttons on monitor)
thankyou
You forgot about the Twinkle tray! It’s a very good program.
twinkletray.com
Thank you very much, Greg. I downloaded and try Twinkle Tray, it’s easy to use.
Thanks, Greg for the good recommendation.
Definitely the best utility for brightness control. Great for controlling multiple screens with a single slider (link monitors feature).
Been using screenbright for years with bat files to quick set desired level. Your suggestion is way easier.
Thank you!
for me gamma panel work good. it has setting gamma, brightness and contras. thanks raymond cc.
desktop lighter was very helpful for me. Thank you for information.
Is there another software just like Gammy?
Gammy is great but its behaviour is undefined with multiple monitor setups.
I’d probably even pay for software just like Gammy for multiple monitor.
It is written in Python, and still contains some issues:
github.com/Juno72/MonitorControl
Hello Raymond CC,
I inform you that the soft called Eye Saver (2.43 version) isn’t a freeware : after a few days it says to register for a longer usage. Best, Fabio
thanks for these stuffs
Win10 Brightness Slider is not working for me. I am using win10 1909
Can any of these programs be used to set brightness automatically at a certain time of the day? Say 50% bright from 8am-7pm and go down to 30% brightness from 7pm-8am?
Probably f.lux could help.
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1. ClickmonitorDDC can manage this kind of time schedule
Twinkle Tray does this: github.com/xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray.
You can change your brightness depending on the time of day. It even adjusts per-monitor if you want.
Not automatically, but Gamma Panel allows you to save different modes, and assign a keyboard shortcut for each one of them, so shifting between those modes can be as easy as a key combination whenever needed.
very good software . I had been searching for this kind of software for about half a month It is very great. I am very greatful to the developers .
Thanks a lot, dude. I would make a sandwitch when you visit my place.
thnx I wish there were alot more people like yourself !
if you where not here i would defently downloaded one (mayB 2 or 3) of the above givven list; I gues ill try the ClickMonitorDDC first :-)
Thanks for this post.I need more details for gamma panel?
You see that “Use NVidia settings” option?
For some weird reason (after a Windows/Driver update, I don’t know for sure), after restarting my PC it reverts back to default “other apps control…” setting, is pretty annoying.
I downloaded the 4#Gamma Panel, and created a basic task on Task Scheduler that auto-run this program when Windows boot.
It works perfectly! Thanks!
(I would still like to know if anyone has ever had a similar problem, though).
Please try the program to change the brightness of the entire video-system “MyMonic v1.1” very comfortable
THANKES ClickMonitorDDC works perfectly
Thank You very much, ClickMonitorDDC works amazing for me.
Desktop Lighter worked for me also after the windows 10 update killed my brightness.control
Desktop Lighter works for me after the Windows 10 1803 update killed the brightness control.
Battery endurance is still an issue, however I can at least work in the evening using the dimmer.
Thank you sir..ClickMonitorDDC works !
Thank you!!
Amazing! Installed ClickMonitor after reading your post. Quite simple and straightforward.
You’re a genius. I have been trying to get my monitor to where I could see the text on the screen for days. Your information solved my problem.
Thank you very much for the info and links. It saved my eyes from straining due to monitor’s brightness.
tHanks bro Desktop Lighter is superb
gamma panel works for me , thanks bro 10-/9/2016
thanks mike you saved my time :)
Does anyone know of a Windows program that can change the black level / brightness of a particular display in an extremely fine-grained way? For example, by inputting a decimal/floating point scaling factor? These slider bars do not give me the resolution I need for my particular application.
You may try Free Monitor Manager. But you’ll have to adjust the settings in its data files manually. It’s easy, btw.
Gamma Panel ‘Contrast’ adjustment did not do much for me, however lowering the Gamma setting worked great! I’m using Win 10 on an Asus Laptop.
One yet utility similar to ScreenBright: Free Monitor Manager.
It supports multi-monitor configurations and allows to change monitor settings using global hotkeys.
freemonitormanager.com
I tried a bunch of these and found that only iBrightnessTray works on my Thinkpad W520. It’s great to have that when the built-in hotkeys for screen brightness control stop working.
How can you put f.lux in 6th position? It wipes its ass with all screen dimming softwares I’ve used. The Desktop lighter was pissing me off the most.
This isn’t a “top 10”.
I found a tool similiar to screenbright, but more easy to use:
ClickMonitorDDC is a portable freeware tool to adjust brightness or contrast of a DDC compatible monitor by simply clicking a dynamic notification icon in the taskbar tray area, also supports shortcut icon command-line arguments
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Excellent topic. I’ve been searching for something like this for a while.
But no-one seems to have observed that there are two very different ways of achieving this. Most of the above work by lowering the image brightness. What is needed if you want to save power and maximise the life of your backlight is to lower the backlight power. So far, the only free one I have found that does this is iBrightness Tray. Working that way also gives a much better brightness range.
Thanks Ray, GammaPanel works in my laptop. You are a star. May God Bless You
Gama panel does not work with windows 7. Once you reboot your pc, all settings an hotkeys are lost and it reverts to default – rather useless.
Not sure what your problem is but Game Panel is working perfectly fine on Win 7 64-bit. Saves the profiles and hotkeys OK and they can be selected without issue on reboot. When it’s launched Game Panel reverts to the profile you used last time.
excellent idea, thnak you very much
the screen of my laptop is too bright inside, even with all the settings put to the minimum.
I´m using F.lux on my desktop but it´s not possible to modify brightnes with it.
For me RedShift seems to be the best because in one software I have F.lux functionality and brightness control.
For me FriendEye work best, not change the colors
Thank you!
Thank you ray, I had to change brightness and contrast every day and night, by pressing these monitor buttons according to background light, These tools are very good and more than my expectation…
this is so awesome! my laptop wouldn’t dim the brightness enough..and the lowest setting was always brighter than I always wanted it to be..Thanks very much Raymond! God bless! :-)
Thanks posting Raymond
thanks for the great info ray :D
Thanks Raymond for the very useful tool, on my BENQ it works perfect!!!
thanks for the desktop lighter!