BetterDisplay Pro

Custom resolutions, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, Picture in Picture, soft disconnect, configuration and EDID overrides, DDC control, color mode selection, syncing, layout protection, and more.

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BetterDisplay app screenshot on macOS desktop — **“BetterDisplay** is a truly wonderful tool! It lets you convert your displays to **fully scalable screens**, manage **display configuration overrides**, allows **brightness and color control**, provides **XDR/HDR brightness upscaling** (extra brightness), **full dimming** to black, helps you **create and manage virtual screens** for your Mac, create **Picture in Picture** windows from your displays, and gives you a host of other features to **manage your display settings**, like display and color modes, easily from the menu bar. It can even **disconnect/reconnect displays** on-the-fly!

FEATURE-PACKED

Enable Night Shift for your TV.
Fine-tune your screen with sharpening, geometry, and advanced color adjustments.
Apply custom 3D LUTs to your display or PIP and streaming video filters.
Define favorite resolutions and reach them from the app menu, resolution slider, or keyboard shortcuts.
macOS Shortcuts (App Intents) support for many operations.
Keep selected windows or window groups in view with Picture in Picture.
The only app with DDC control support across all modern Macs, including Apple Silicon built-in HDMI ports and the 2018 Mac mini built-in HDMI port.
Change resolution quickly with a slider.
Control TV volume, mute, power, and inputs with HDMI-CEC on compatible connections.
Layout protection with anchor points for natural traversal between screens in adaptive display arrangements.
Direct upscaling for built-in XDR displays on macOS 26.3+.
CLI and app integration features including command-line tools, betterdisplaycli, custom URL schema, HTTP, and notifications.
Advanced keyboard shortcuts support.
Choose a Control Center-style sidebar with the refreshed Liquid Glass interface.
Convert internal and natively connected external displays to flexibly scaled HiDPI displays, including notch, HDR, HDCP, and high refresh support.
Use your iPad or monitor as a DIY teleprompter.
Change brightness, volume, and colors via software and hardware DDC control using sliders, native shortcuts, or custom shortcuts.
Color profile and XDR preset selector.
Nits-based normalized brightness syncing across displays.
Run CLI commands and view app logs in the built-in console.
Protect display configuration, including resolution, refresh rate or VRR, rotation, and color profile.
Simplify creating mirrored display sets.
Color mode selector and unexposed refresh rates for Apple Silicon Macs, including RGB, YCbCr, chroma subsampling, and HDMI range settings.
Keyboard shortcuts for brightness and audio control.
Reach full XDR or HDR brightness potential with upscaling up to 1600 nits on XDR displays and display-dependent boosts on external HDR screens.
Quickly accessible refresh rate and screen rotation menus.
Inspect display connection, bandwidth, and compression details with expanded diagnostics.
Display groups and synchronization features to match brightness and other image controls across multiple displays.
Change display inputs using DDC on supported displays.
HDR-capable and high-refresh-rate virtual screens (requires compatible Macs).
Auto-switch color profiles for SDR and HDR modes.
Expanded translations, with right-to-left layouts for Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian.
Optionally auto-disconnect the built-in screen when connecting an external display on Apple Silicon Macs.
Use headless Macs with any resolution and HiDPI mode for remote access.
Customize Picture in Picture and streaming with video filters and target frame rates.
Higher quality macOS Zoom accessibility output and high-quality screenshots even on 1080p displays.
EDID override support for both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.
Built-in LG webOS TV, Samsung Tizen TV, Philips Android TV, and Yamaha AVR networked control support.
Disconnect and reconnect displays on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Use the lower half of your TV as an off-center widescreen workspace.
Custom OSD styles, including a classic-style OSD option for macOS Tahoe reinterpreted for glass.
Arrange displays visually from the app menu with on-screen guides and grid snapping.
Create custom HiDPI resolutions for real displays and redefine advanced system display parameters.
Apply filters directly to your screen using self-streaming and video filter windows.
Forced HDR switch mode for some displays to achieve high refresh rate/high resolution HDR.
Help reduce visible display flickering from PWM and temporal dithering.
Create any number of virtual screens with different aspect ratios and resolutions.
Redirect display contents from real or virtual screens to another screen with local streaming.
Display UI scale matching to synchronize UI scale and resolution among multiple displays.
Supports both Color Table (Apple Silicon) and Metal methods (Apple Silicon and Intel).
Create a Picture in Picture window for any real display or virtual screen.
Scaled Sidecar resolutions and portrait Sidecar support through virtual screen streaming.
Run per-display shell scripts and URLs on connect, disconnect, sleep, or wake.
Export display EDID and view detailed display information on Intel and Apple Silicon.
DDC auto-configuration that detects and configures capabilities automatically.

Feature	Free	Pro
Flexible HiDPI scaling
Multiple brightness-control methods
Native brightness and volume keys
DDC brightness control
DDC volume control
Direct XDR brightness upscaling on compatible Apple Silicon Macs
Color-table XDR/HDR brightness upscaling on Apple Silicon
Metal XDR/HDR brightness upscaling on Apple Silicon and Intel
Brightness upscaling for compatible third-party HDR displays
Dimming to black
Combined hardware and software dimming
Software dimming through color tables
Software dimming through overlays
Resolution slider
Custom scaled-resolution editing
Refresh rate selector
Display mode selector
Display connection and disconnection
Visual display arrangement with on-screen guides¹
Display configuration protection
Adaptive layout protection and advanced layout management¹
Custom display groups
Basic brightness syncing
Normalized brightness syncing in nits
Advanced brightness and image-adjustment syncing
Resolution syncing and UI scale matching
Mirroring configuration and protection
Sharpening, geometry, and advanced color filters
Advanced software color adjustments
Software color temperature control
Software contrast adjustment
Color profile and XDR preset selection
Automatic color profile switching between SDR and HDR
Custom 3D LUTs for displays and PIP/stream filters
Virtual screen creation
Picture-in-picture for physical displays and virtual screens
PIP/stream capture of selected windows or window groups
Full-screen local streaming
Custom virtual screen configurations
HDR and high-refresh-rate virtual screens on compatible Macs
Virtual screen association with displays
Video Filter Windows and full-screen video filters
Target frame-rate controls for PIP and streaming
PIP/stream stretching and positioning
PIP/stream cropping
PIP/stream rotation and portrait Sidecar
Teleprompter mode through stream flipping
Compositor rendering for Video Filter Windows
DDC control on supported Apple Silicon connections
DDC control on supported Intel connections
DDC capability detection and automatic configuration
DDC input switching
DDC power control
DDC contrast control
DDC color-channel gain control
HDMI-CEC TV control, including CLI access
LG webOS TV control
Samsung Tizen TV control
Philips Android TV control
Yamaha AVR control
Night Shift support for TVs
Graphical user interface
Optional sidebar layout and menu bar right-click actions
Basic custom keyboard shortcuts
Advanced custom keyboard shortcuts
Native or custom OSDs (depending on macOS version)
Refined OSD styling and Traditional OSD option
Brightness output in nits on the OSD
Display name overrides
macOS Shortcuts integration through App Intents²
Command-line interface²
Built-in console with CLI access and app logs²
Standard control integration through scripts, URLs, and notifications
Per-display actions on connect, disconnect, sleep, and wake
HTTP and custom URL scheme integration²
User-defined custom integration and DDC controls
Prevent system sleep while a specified display is connected
Native and default resolution overrides
Color mode selection on supported Apple Silicon configurations
Additional and NTSC refresh rates on compatible Apple Silicon Macs
Forced HDR switching for supported display modes
HDR extra-brightness calibration
Expanded filter syncing and manual group UI scale matching
EDID overrides on Apple Silicon and Intel
EDID retrieval and export
Expanded display information and diagnostic reports
Per-display ambient light readings on supported hardware
DisplayLink DDC and color control, where supported
DDC through built-in HDMI on M1 Macs and the entry-level M2 Mac mini
DDC through the 2018 Intel Mac mini’s built-in HDMI port
DDC input customization
External HUD and notch-app integration
Experimental cursor exclusion from stream target displays

Availability depends on your Mac, macOS version, display, and connection.

¹ Visual arrangement is free. Some advanced grid-snap options and layout protection require Pro.

² Automation interfaces are free to access; operations controlling Pro features still require Pro.

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