iBright 4+

I had written a second review yesterday that the App Store app said was submitted, but it seems not to have been. I was going to re-rate at 2 stars in that review, but the developer has obviously seen previous reviews and is making efforts to improve the operation, so I cancelled that review.

The 1.01 rev seems to have done away with the screen-to-black problems (!), and the CMD-CTL-+- shortcuts are a welcome addition even though they don't seem to work on my system (I get a beep whether iBright or another app is frontmost, and no brightness change. Perhaps the shortcut key combos are already in use elsewhere; Apple's preference panel provides almost no help in sorting out that situation).

Also, unfortunately, I can not get the proportional setting to do anything at all, and brightness synchronization seems to be a useless model, since it appears to just force the sliders to the same location when a drag is started; if both displays had the same brightness at the same "level" (whatever that means), I wouldn't need iBright in the first place.

What I think is really needed is a way to set all display sliders to their desired levels independently, then enable a setting that causes them all to ride up and down together maintaining the ratios I started with, much as an aspect ratio lock does in a graphics program, or a master gain control does to adjust all track volumes together in Garage Band and the like, though each track is set independently to its own relative gain level.

Anyway, for obvious effort, I will not give two stars, but it's still a long way from meeting the description it carries in the App Store, so I'll give it 3 for this rev. And am looking forward to raising that as the product improves.

Steve, thanks for responding so quickly!

I am updating my review that was below. I bought dual 30’s U3014, and I have to admit this control brightness on them too. It only really darkens pixels, but you can’t tell that it’s not modifying the real brightness (it can’t since dell has no drivers or software-based brightness control).

I would love to see this thing have auto backlight adjustment and shortcut keys to modify brightness. Still 5 stars though. I tried a bunch of other apps.

— Original Review —

Very awesome software. Works perfectly. I have dual thunder-bolt displays and this thing actually synchronizes the brightness. The menu is easy to use. Has an alternate brightness feature that dims the actual screens using software instead of hardware, perfect if you don't have apple-brightness-enabled screens. LOVE this software!!

One small request, when changing the brightness via keyboard it does not synchornize the brightness. WOULD BE IDEAL, but I won't take a star off for it. Just would be really nice.

Only brightness management app that I’ve used that allows for multiple monitors with multiple brightness levels. That alone makes it more than worth the purchase price.