SwiftBar VS MonitorControl

Compare SwiftBar vs MonitorControl and see what are their differences.

SwiftBar

Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool (by swiftbar)

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)
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SwiftBar MonitorControl
18 191
2,601 25,769
3.0% 2.9%
6.9 7.0
6 days ago about 1 month ago
Swift Swift
MIT License MIT License
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SwiftBar

Posts with mentions or reviews of SwiftBar. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-17.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SwiftBar and MonitorControl you can also consider the following projects:

Lunar - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors

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!

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]

bitbar - Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)

yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

RDM - Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions

DevUtils-app - All-in-one Toolbox for Developers. Native macOS app.

display-switch - Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM switch

eul - 🖥️ macOS status monitoring app written in SwiftUI.

Mousecape - Cursor Manager for OSX

Hackintool - The Swiss army knife of vanilla Hackintoshing

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)