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xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray

Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray · homepage · JavaScript · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

86/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 63
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 25.0
  • age_days: 2576
  • days_rel: 251
  • days_push: 15
  • n_releases_24m: 11

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

8931 stars · 318 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Member repositories

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