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Menubar Brightness
Adjusts the screen brightness from the Mac menu bar, with an option to open the app at login.
Unmaintained · Free download · Downloads from github.com
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- lucasbento
- Verified
- 2026
Unmaintained
No release since November 2017.
About Menubar Brightness
Menubar Brightness puts a screen brightness control in the Mac menu bar. Its preferences window, opened with Command-comma, lets you choose whether the app starts at login, and it can quit the app. The project is a small MIT-licensed utility, and its README thanks the Kap project for its source code.
The README says the app is for macOS only and gives no minimum macOS version. It does not say whether the download is notarized, so check the signing status yourself before the first launch. The project's last release is version 0.0.2 from November 2017, and its last commit is from the same month, so it is unmaintained and may not behave as expected on current macOS releases.
Information
- Source code
- lucasbento/menubar-brightness
- License
- MIT
- Website
- github.com
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Utilities
- Topics
- Menu bar apps
- Evidence checked
- Tags
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/lucasbento/menubar-brightness
- github.com/lucasbento/menubar-brightness/blob/master/LICENSE
- github.com/lucasbento/menubar-brightness/releases
- icon.png: Lucas Bento. MIT; upstream app icon, trademarks retained.
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