BetterDisplay Pro

Custom resolutions, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, Picture in Picture, soft disconnect, configuration and EDID overrides, DDC control, color mode selection, syncing, layout protection, and more.

Download the current v4.x release for macOS Tahoe, Sequoia, Sonoma, Ventura

macOS 27 beta: go to Settings Application Updates and enable Receive Internal Pre-Release

Previous versions: v3.5.6 | v2.3.9 - Monterey | v1.4.15 - Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur | Browse all

BetterDisplay app screenshot on macOS desktop — **“BetterDisplay** is a truly wonderful tool! It lets you convert your displays to **fully scalable screens**, manage **display configuration overrides**, allows **brightness and color control**, provides **XDR/HDR brightness upscaling** (extra brightness), **full dimming** to black, helps you **create and manage virtual screens** for your Mac, create **Picture in Picture** windows from your displays, and gives you a host of other features to **manage your display settings**, like display and color modes, easily from the menu bar. It can even **disconnect/reconnect displays** on-the-fly!

FEATURE-PACKED

Enable Night Shift for your TV.
Define favorite resolutions and reach them from the app menu, resolution slider, or keyboard shortcuts.
macOS Shortcuts (App Intents) support for many operations.
The only app with DDC control support across all modern Macs, including Apple Silicon built-in HDMI ports and the 2018 Mac mini built-in HDMI port.
Change resolution quickly with a slider.
Layout protection with anchor points for natural traversal between screens in adaptive display arrangements.
Direct upscaling for built-in XDR displays on macOS 26.3+.
CLI and app integration features including command-line tools, betterdisplaycli, custom URL schema, HTTP, and notifications.
Advanced keyboard shortcuts support.
Convert internal and natively connected external displays to flexibly scaled HiDPI displays, including notch, HDR, HDCP, and high refresh support.
Use your iPad or monitor as a DIY teleprompter.
Change brightness, volume, and colors via software and hardware DDC control using sliders, native shortcuts, or custom shortcuts.
Color profile and XDR preset selector.
Nits-based normalized brightness syncing across displays.
Protect display configuration, including resolution, refresh rate or VRR, rotation, and color profile.
Simplify creating mirrored display sets.
Color mode selector and unexposed refresh rates for Apple Silicon Macs, including RGB, YCbCr, chroma subsampling, and HDMI range settings.
Keyboard shortcuts for brightness and audio control.
Reach full XDR or HDR brightness potential with upscaling up to 1600 nits on XDR displays and display-dependent boosts on external HDR screens.
Quickly accessible refresh rate and screen rotation menus.
Display groups and synchronization features to match brightness and other image controls across multiple displays.
Change display inputs using DDC on supported displays.
HDR-capable and high-refresh-rate virtual screens (requires compatible Macs).
Auto-switch color profiles for SDR and HDR modes.
Optionally auto-disconnect the built-in screen when connecting an external display on Apple Silicon Macs.
Use headless Macs with any resolution and HiDPI mode for remote access.
Video filters for Picture in Picture and local streaming.
Higher quality macOS Zoom accessibility output and high-quality screenshots even on 1080p displays.
EDID override support for both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.
Built-in LG webOS TV, Samsung Tizen TV, Philips Android TV, and Yamaha AVR networked control support.
Disconnect and reconnect displays on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Use the lower half of your TV as an off-center widescreen workspace.
Custom OSD styles, including a classic-style OSD option for macOS Tahoe reinterpreted for glass.
Move displays around quickly relative to each other using the app menu.
Create custom HiDPI resolutions for real displays and redefine advanced system display parameters.
Apply filters directly to your screen using self-streaming and video filter windows.
Forced HDR switch mode for some displays to achieve high refresh rate/high resolution HDR.
Help reduce visible display flickering from PWM and temporal dithering.
Create any number of virtual screens with different aspect ratios and resolutions.
Redirect display contents from real or virtual screens to another screen with local streaming.
Display UI scale matching to synchronize UI scale and resolution among multiple displays.
Supports both Color Table (Apple Silicon) and Metal methods (Apple Silicon and Intel).
Create a Picture in Picture window for any real display or virtual screen.
Scaled Sidecar resolutions and portrait Sidecar support through virtual screen streaming.
Control integration options to automate your setup using shell scripts and URLs.
Export display EDID and view detailed display information on Intel and Apple Silicon.
DDC auto-configuration that detects and configures capabilities automatically.

Feature	Free	Pro
Easy to use GUI
Multi-method brightness control
Color table XDR/HDR brightness upscaling
Metal XDR/HDR brightness upscaling
Direct XDR brightness upscaling
Native XDR brightness upscaling
Native brightness and volume keys
Basic custom keyboard shortcuts
Advanced custom keyboard shortcuts
Basic native OSD support
Combined native OSD support
OSD nits output
Software dimming (color table)
Software dimming (overlay)
Combined dimming
Dimming to black
LG webOS TV control
Samsung Tizen TV control
Philips Android TV control
Yamaha AVR control
DDC support for most Macs
DDC via the M1/M2 built-in HDMI
DDC for Intel 2018 mini built-in HDMI
DDC brightness control
DDC volume control
DDC input switching
DDC input customization
DDC power control
DDC capabilities and auto-config
DDC and color control for DisplayLink
Control integration
Custom integration and DDC controls
Custom scaled resolution editing
Flexible HiDPI scaling
Disconnect/connect displays
Night Shift for TVs
Display name override
Native/default resolution editing
Virtual screen creation
Virtual screen association
Custom virtual screens
HDR virtual screens
Display mode selector menu
Refresh rate selector menu
Unexposed and NTSC refresh rates
Color mode selector for Apple Silicon
Resolution slider
Picture in Picture
Video filter window
Full screen video filters
Full screen streaming
Stream/PIP, stretching, off-centering
Stream/PIP rotation, portrait Sidecar
Stream/PIP crop feature
Teleprompter mode (stream flipping)
Mirror configuration
Mirror protection
Color adjustments
Color temperature control
HDR extra brightness calibration
Third-party HDR extra brightness
Display config protection
EDID retrieval
EDID override (Apple Silicon)
EDID override (Intel)
Color profile selector
SDR/HDR color profile auto-switch
Forced-HDR mode to unlock resolution limitations
Command-line integration
Prevent sleep while connected to a display
macOS Shortcuts app (App Intents)
HTTP, custom URL scheme
External HUD/notch app integration
Custom display groups
Basic brightness syncing
Advanced image adjustments syncing
Nits-based normalized brightness syncing
Resolution sync, UI scale matching
Advanced layout management

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