Top 3 Swift Xdr Projects

Lunar

192 4,323 8.9 Swift

Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors

Project mention: Reverse Engineering a Software Crack | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-23

It’s done in a similar way on macOS: a dylib is added to the bundle and an LC_LOAD command is added to the app binary. The dylib is the first thing that runs because of using the constructor attribute, like this: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Injecting%20a%20DYLIB%20into%...
The nice thing is that a signed app will refuse to load a dylib that does not have the same signature. So crackers will be forced to change the whole app signature which can be easily detected in app code.
I have that kind of protection in Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/) and Clop (https://lowtechguys.com/clop) and it seems to be good enough as they have no recent cracks.

BrightIntosh

2 189 8.8 Swift

Unlock the full brightness of the XDR display of your MacBook Pro

Project mention: MacBook Pro M2 pro Chip vs MacBook Pro M3 pro chip | /r/macbookpro | 2023-12-08

That said, displays can technically go beyond the maximum (after all, it already does for HDR contents). It's "possible" in the sense people can do it. https://github.com/niklasr22/BrightIntosh

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BrightXDR

1 74 6.3 Swift

Free and Open Source alternative to Vivid macOS application to extend Apple XDR display brightness from 500 up to 1600 nits.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).