xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray
Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray observed · 2026-10-19
Health v2 · maintenance only
80/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 44
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 40
- age_days: 2624
- days_rel: 299
- days_push: 2
- n_releases_24m: 8
Adoption not part of the score
9208 stars · 340 forks observed · 2026-10-19
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Twinkle Tray is a Windows system tray app that adds brightness sliders for controlling laptop backlights and DDC/CI-capable external monitors. It supports hotkeys, time-of-day and idle-based adjustments, backlight normalization, and other DDC/CI controls like contrast.
Use cases
- control brightness of external monitors on windows
- adjust multiple monitor brightness from system tray
- set monitor brightness by time of day
- bind hotkeys to change screen brightness
- normalize brightness across different monitors
- control monitor contrast via ddc/ci
When to choose
- you're on Windows 10/11 and want unified brightness control for multiple displays, including external DDC/CI monitors
- you want scheduled or hotkey-driven brightness changes
- you want a free, polished tray app that matches Windows theming
When to avoid
- you're on macOS or Linux, since this is Windows-only
- your monitor doesn't support DDC/CI and isn't a laptop panel
- you need per-application or per-window dimming rather than per-monitor control
Facets
application · maturity stable
gui developer-tools desktop-applications windows developer-tools cross-platform windows brightness-control ddc-ci system-tray multiple-monitors monitor-backlight hotkeys desktop electron
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray · fetched 2026-10-19 · ba77a45ce873
- homepage: https://twinkletray.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · b1f26c1ed225
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray | main | 80 |
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