Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store?

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  • Lunar

    Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors

    • Not directly a comment on the article, but the author’s app Lunar looks very impressive:

    https://lunar.fyi/

    I love the ability to add an external light sensor to provide adaptive brightness to external displays!

    The name is a bit unfortunate. I assume it’s no relation to “Luna Display” but has some scope for confusion there…

  • 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.

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