BetterDisplay5.1.1

BetterDisplay lets you reshape a Mac’s display setup with custom resolutions, scalable HiDPI modes, brightness controls, and virtual screens, solving the limits of macOS’s standard display settings. It can also soft-disconnect screens, apply configuration and EDID overrides, protect layouts, synchronize displays, and create Picture in Picture windows that keep selected windows or groups visible.

Its controls include XDR/HDR brightness expansion, full dimming to black, color-mode, color-profile, and XDR-preset selection, plus sharpening, geometry, advanced color adjustments, and custom 3D LUTs for displays, PIP windows, and streaming video. Favorite resolutions can be reached from the app menu, a resolution slider, or keyboard shortcuts, while Night Shift can be enabled for a TV and an iPad or monitor can serve as a DIY teleprompter. BetterDisplay provides software and hardware DDC control for brightness, volume, and color, including slider, native-shortcut, and custom-shortcut control; it is the only app with DDC support across modern Macs, including Apple Silicon built-in HDMI and the 2018 Mac mini’s built-in HDMI.

It adds HDMI-CEC controls for volume, mute, power, and inputs on compatible connections, while anchor points preserve natural screen-to-screen movement in adaptive layouts. macOS Shortcuts through App Intents, advanced keyboard shortcuts, betterdisplaycli, a custom URL scheme, HTTP, notifications, and a Control Center-style sidebar with the refreshed Liquid Glass interface support automated and quick workflows. Version 5.1.1 belongs to the v5.x line for macOS 26 Tahoe and macOS 27 Golden Gate; older releases listed are v4.3.7 for Sequoia, Sonoma, and Ventura, v3.5.6, v2.3.9 for Monterey, and v1.4.15 for Mojave, Catalina, and Big Sur.

BetterDisplay suits multi-monitor desks, TV setups, HDR and XDR work, presentation spaces, and anyone needing finer control over an internal or natively connected external display, including notch, HDR, HDCP, and high-refresh support. It is freeware in the System Tools category for macOS on Apple Silicon Macs using the arm64 architecture.