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waydabber/BetterDisplay

Unlock your displays on your Mac. Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, image adjustments, PIP/streaming, EDID...

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waydabber/BetterDisplay has 34k+ stars and 600+ forks on GitHub and was last pushed on Oct 6, 2026. Data as of . Signed-in members get hourly updates — create a free account.

Summary Information

Updated 39 minutes ago
Type:ApplicationCategory(s):Desktop & System UtilitiesProductivity & Business Apps
Added to GitGenius on September 1st, 2026
Created on October 24th, 2021
Open Issues & Pull Requests: 119 (+0)
GitHub issues: Enabled
Number of forks: 642
Total Stargazers: 34,100 (+0)
Total Subscribers: 90 (+0)

Repository Insights (GitGenius)

Median issue/PR response: 0.3 hours
Mean response time: 15.8 days
90th percentile: 16.5 hours
Tracked items: 1,565

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Maintainer activity

2 people did triage or write work on this repository in the last 12 months.

Counts unlabeled, assigned, unassigned, milestoned, demilestoned, locked, unlocked over the last 12 months. These are issue and pull request events that require triage or write permission. Commits and code review are not counted. labeled and renamed are excluded because GitHub issue forms record the issue author as the actor. Figures from October 11, 2026. This count is not comparable across projects: each project's automation decides which of these events a person emits. How this is counted.

How this project is maintained

Practically every issue opened in the past year has drawn a reply. 57% of open issues come from outside the core team, a mix of external reports and the maintainers' own roadmap. 95% of issues opened in the past year have since been closed. Three people close 96% of everything that gets resolved.

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Issue Activity (beta)

Open issues: 121
New in 7 days: 13
Closed in 7 days: 38
Avg open age: 726 days
Stale 30+ days: 2
Stale 90+ days: 2

Recent activity

Opened in 7 days: 13
Closed in 7 days: 38
Comments in 7 days: 53
Events in 7 days: 409

Top labels

  • released (781)
  • done (758)
  • enhancement (674)
  • bug (285)
  • integration (181)
  • PIP/Stream (128)
  • macOS version (60)
  • XDR/HDR/upscaling (40)

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Detailed Description

BetterDisplay is a macOS display management utility that provides flexible scaling, brightness control, virtual screens, and hardware configuration overrides for Mac displays.

The tool addresses the limitations of macOS's native display handling by enabling custom resolutions through flexible HiDPI scaling, allowing users to achieve non-standard scaling factors on their displays. It provides XDR and HDR brightness upscaling beyond the standard 100% maximum for compatible displays on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. The utility also supports EDID overrides and DDC control, giving users direct hardware-level access to display configuration that macOS normally restricts. Beyond scaling and brightness, it enables creation of virtual screens, picture-in-picture windows of displays, soft disconnection and reconnection of displays, color mode selection, and additional dimming capabilities down to complete black.

BetterDisplay suits Mac users with external displays who need resolution flexibility beyond macOS defaults, particularly those with high-resolution or XDR displays seeking brightness control beyond standard limits. It is valuable for users managing complex multi-display setups who want centralized menu-bar control over display settings. The tool works across multiple macOS versions, with current releases supporting recent versions and pre-release builds available for beta macOS versions.

The project maintains active development with regular releases and pre-release builds for upcoming macOS versions. The maintainer provides multiple distribution channels including standard releases and beta pre-releases, indicating ongoing support for both stable and cutting-edge macOS versions. A community Discord channel is available for user support and discussion.