# xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray

Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray

Repository: https://github.com/xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/twinkle-tray
Homepage: https://twinkletray.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: brightness, brightness-control, brightness-level, windows, electron-app, nodejs, ddc-ic, backlight, backlight-brightness, monitors, multiple-monitors, brightness-levels, windows-10, react, reactjs, brightness-slider, windows-11
Last push: 2026-08-19T02:12:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 86/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 63, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2576, "days_push": 15, "days_rel": 251, "gap_med": 25.0, "n_releases_24m": 11}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8931, forks 318 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:26.342783+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: gui, developer-tools
- domain: desktop-applications, windows, developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows
- tags: brightness-control, ddc-ci, system-tray, multiple-monitors, monitor-backlight, hotkeys, desktop, electron

## Member repositories
- xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray (main) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:26.342783+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:24:32.343647+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:26.342783+00:00, sha ba77a45ce873)
  - homepage: https://twinkletray.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:25:05.577094+00:00, sha b1f26c1ed225)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.