Vivid
Double the brightness of your MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR, System-Wide
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Jordi Bruin

Vivid - Double your MacBook brightness, system-wide

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The new MacBook Pros and the Pro Display XDR have displays that can go up to 1.600 nits of brightness. By default these levels of brightness can only be reached when watching HDR videos or by using Metal applications. Until now.

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Jordi Bruin
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Hi Product Hunt 👋 The first thing I tried when I got the new MacBook Pro last year was to see how bright the screen could go when watching HDR videos. Five minutes later I decided I was going to spend the next month trying to find ways to unlock this higher brightness across the entire system! I like to work outside so I can really use the extra brightness to combat the sun! Vivid doesn’t use any hacks or low-level system calls to achieve the higher brightness. We believe that makes it really safe to use. It uses regular Apple APIs to enable the higher brightness modes across the entire system. Features ☀️ Use your MacBook Pro outside in the bright sun 😎 Raise the max brightness from 500 to over 1.000 nits ⌨️ Use your regular brightness keyboard keys to adjust brightness 🎚 Easily toggle Vivid on and off (⌃⌥⌘V) 🌓 Splitscreen Mode™ (to really see the difference) 🖱 Right click the menu bar icon to toggle Vivid Happy to answer any (technical) questions about the app!
Samuele Zolfanelli
Congrats Jordi! I see how this could be useful outdoors or in specific workflows, great idea!
Jordi Bruin
Maker
@samdze thanks a lot! I love using it outside now as well 🙂
Alex Styl
Congrats on the launch! I wonder why Apple did not allow for the full brightness on their laptop.
Jonathan Benavides Vallejo
This is such an amazing app! congracts @jordi_bruin on the launch!
Igor Marchuk
Nice. How does it affect battery life though?