Monitor Tune

Usually bigger is better and we know for sure that it certainly applies to computers. The same can also be said about monitors, with high-end displays supporting various resolutions for stunning visual feedback. Most of them come with buttons for adjusting settings like contrast and brightness, but utilities like Monitor Tune bring them to your desktop.

As a general note, the application comes in an incredibly light package, with versions for both x64 and x32 systems, thus being flexible. To add even more, you don't need to go through a setup process and simply keep it on a removable storage device to use on the go. This enables you do quickly adjust several settings on multiple monitors in the nick of time.

Going under the hood reveals that the application isn't pumped with too much juice. A compact window holds several sliders that even a first time computer user can figure out how to handle. The best and fastest way to know what to get from the application is messing around with the sliders, because the effects are instantly visible.

The number of settings put at your disposal mostly depend on what your monitor can handle. As such, you'll get to adjust brightness, contrast and color temperature. You can opt for a degauss options, but yet again, only if the monitor supports it.

Changes are applied in real time and permanently saved at the press of a button. Sadly, set of features ends here and you have to run it again for any changes. It would have been useful to see at least a tray icon or hotkey support for even less effort.

To wrap it up, Monitor Tune has a lot more to learn from others of its kind, being nothing more than you can already do with default Windows features. Sure, it can be used by anyone, with only a few sliders at your disposal, but the extreme simplicity and lack of innovation or at least hotkey support, hardly make it worth your time.