MonitorControl
🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs. (by MonitorControl)
Hackintool
The Swiss army knife of vanilla Hackintoshing (by benbaker76)
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| MonitorControl | Hackintool | |
|---|---|---|
| 191 | 35 | |
| 26,005 | 2,956 | |
| 2.5% | - | |
| 7.0 | 7.4 | |
| 2 months ago | 7 months ago | |
| Swift | Objective-C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
MonitorControl
Posts with mentions or reviews of MonitorControl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-27.
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18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn't strain your eyes
I use "Monitor Control" on my Mac Studio to control the brightness of my Dell monitor:
- Scrollbars Are Becoming a Problem
- Best MacOS Compatible Monitor
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Mac Studio M2 and 8k screen
Just wanted to put in a plug for the MonitorControl app. I just installed it, and it enables brightness control for the QN700B from Apple's keyboard. So great not to have to pull up any Samsung menus to adjust it.
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Is It “Safe” to Purchase a Studio Display Right Now?
Let me introduce you to Monitor Control:https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl
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[50% OFF] Lunar Pro summer discount
Good free alternative is MonitorControl. Pretty sure it does everything Lunar does but is open-sourced.
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Cannot connect 2 external monitors to my MacBook Air 15''?
You can with monitor control app
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My 2023 Desktop Setup ft. an overly complicated diagram
I'm glad you asked! I control the volume of them thru the monitor using the back/forward buttons on my mx master 3 mouse via the MonitorControl app, it's great!
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Adjust brightness and volume on a LG Ultrawide 38wp85c
Installed https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl and worked like a charm, big thanks!
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MacMini keeps adjusting Saturation / Brightness...
As a fellow Mac + OLED TV owner, I think you'll appreciate these too. MonitorControl to access brightness settings through your keyboard and Hazeover to darken background and prevent burn-in.
Hackintool
Posts with mentions or reviews of Hackintool.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-01.
- DRM issue - gvaForceAMDKE: FaceTime, Apple Music and AirPods
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Dell Optiplex 7470 AIO Big Sur Success (Kinda)
AIO display may be using a different display connector (probably LVDS which is mostly uses in laptops). Could have a look at hackintool and check what connectors need patching. Hope it helps.
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How to create EFI partition?
Easiest way I've found to mounting it is with Hackintool from the Disks tab, you'll want to use that tool either way if you're fiddling around with a Hack.
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USB ports not working properly on big sur 11.6
The USB mapping method using Hackintool explained in the post here worked perfectly for me.
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Opencore Rebooting to bios (after following the official troubleshooting guide)
Yes. Download hackintool and go to section Boot - then you can see it.
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My USB keyboard is randomly stops working. I have to sleep and wake my build to make it work again.
Download Hackintool to confirm your ports are working properly. This is also a handy tool to see all of your active kexts, check for updates etc. I often use it to update my kexts.
- Issue with H.264 video exporting
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I'm making a kext updater, because half of the time spent maintaining a hackintosh is keeping it up to date.
A quick thought: Something similar (many) already exist. One is https://www.sl-soft.de/en/kext-updater/, another is https://github.com/ic005k/OCAuxiliaryTools, another is https://github.com/headkaze/Hackintool. Does yours offer something different?
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Garbage display fix in FHD screens
First we need to download these three Applications: Hackintool, AWEDIDEditor and HexFiend
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MacOS 13.0/Ventura Beta 2, it works flawlessly
1: Make sure your OpenCore is updated to at least 0.8.2, you can check what version of OpenCore you have using Hackintool under the boot section.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing MonitorControl and Hackintool you can also consider the following projects:
Lunar - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors
USBMap - Python script for mapping USB ports in macOS and creating a custom injector kext.
BetterDisplay - Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more!
OpenCore-Install-Guide - Repo for the OpenCore Install Guide
BetterDummy - Unlock your displays on your Mac! Smooth scaling, HiDPI unlock, XDR/HDR extra brightness upscale, DDC, brightness and dimming, dummy displays, PIP and lots more! [Moved to: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay]
OS-X-USB-Inject-All - Kext to inject all USB ports for the installed Intel EHCI/XHCI chipset automatically.
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
AppPolice - MacOS app for quickly limiting CPU usage by running applications
RDM - Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions
display-switch - Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM switch
Karabiner-Elements - Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.
MonitorControl vs Lunar
Hackintool vs USBMap
MonitorControl vs BetterDisplay
Hackintool vs OpenCore-Install-Guide
MonitorControl vs BetterDummy
Hackintool vs OS-X-USB-Inject-All
MonitorControl vs yabai
Hackintool vs AppPolice
MonitorControl vs RDM
Hackintool vs RDM
MonitorControl vs display-switch
Hackintool vs Karabiner-Elements