BetterDisplay Pro 1.4.3

BetterDisplay is a truly wonderful tool! It let’s you convert your displays to fully scalable screens, allows brightness control, provides XDR/HDR upscaling (extra brightness beyond 100% on compatible displays), full dimming to black,helps you create and manage virtual displays (dummies) for your Mac, create Picture in Picture windows of your displays and gives you a host of other features to manage your display’s settings easily from the menu bar.

Features

• Convert your internal and natively connected external displays to smoothly-scaled HiDPI displays on Apple Silicon – now even without mirroring a dummy (displays with notch, HDR, HDCP, high refresh rate fully supported)! (Pro)
• Reach the full brightness potential of your XDR or HDR display! (Pro)
• Change the display’s brightness, volume and colors via software and hardware (DDC) control via sliders and native or custom keyboard shortcuts!
• Create custom HiDPI resolutions for real displays manually and redefine certain system display parameters!
• Create any number of dummies (virtual screens) with varying aspect ratios.
• Use headless Macs (servers) with any resolution and HiDPI mode for remote access.
• Create Picture in Picture window for any real or dummy displays. (Pro)
• Redirect your display’s contents (real or dummy) to an other screen via streaming. (Pro)
• If you are using a big TV up close, use the bottom half of your TV as a wide screen display (off-center streaming). (Pro)
• Scale Sidecar resolutions. (Pro)
• Portrait SideCar support. (Pro)
• Better quality zooming (System Preferences»Accessibility»Zoom) or High Quality screenshots even on 1080p displays
• Easily change the resolution of your real and dummy displays via a slider (or submenu) from the menubar.
• Quickly accessible refresh rate and screen rotation menu.
• Simplify creating mirrored sets. (Pro)
• Easily move around displays relative to each other using the app menu.
• Quickly designate a display to be main display.
• Associate dummies with displays for auto connect/disconnect.
• Keyboard shortcuts for basic operations.
• Advanced keyboard shortcuts support. (Pro)
• Custom dummies (resolution, orientation, naming). (Pro)
• Create a dummy optimized for a real display. (Pro)

What’s New:

Version 1.4.3:

Enhancements:

• Add option to let the brightness OSD show whether brightness level requires color manipulation (that clips HDR content) – #1522
• Improve Settings/Displays usability (introduces display selector bar instead of collapsible headers) – #1506
• Make the EDID upload section a bit more condensed – #1512
• Moving DCC Quick Slider Config submenu to a more appropriate place – #1497

Fixed:

• EDID auto apply takes effect even when EDID override is disabled – #1520
• Connect/Disconnect option is not compatible with Monterey – should be disabled – #1524
• Minor text cropping issue at Settings/Displays – #1521
• Name of [colorName] Black level display in slider is “[colorName] gain” – #1507
• Display System Settings shortcut blocked by BetterDisplay – #1505
• EDID override warning text has some typos in it – #1495
• Scrolling is enabled for resolution slider (bug) – #1485
• Disconnect menu item redundantly appears for connected dummies – #1484
• Attempting to disconnect an associated (therefore non-disconnectable) dummy makes graphical app menu items go missing – #1483
• When using main display icon offer possibility to use or set monochrome variant as default – #1478
• Removing dummy’s from the menu does not remove them in preferences immediately – #1477

Compatibility: macOS 11.0 or later
Homepage https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay

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