Lunar 4 brings support for controlling monitors on M1 Macs, auto-learning curve when adjusting brightness, external light sensor support and Facelight which allows you to use an external monitor to light up your face in video calls.
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Been using lunar since v3 and its the best. Really should be part of MacOS
@richardboenigk It should, but I hope Apple waits a few years before integrating it into macOS and obsoleting my work 😅 I worked way too much on this and I. need. money.
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@alin23 Ha, absolutely! I hope they don’t, I just wanted to say how essential Lunar is to working with multiple monitors. Thanks for making it.
Hi everyone! (and M1 users)
Lunar 4 is here and it finally works on M1 Macs! You can control any monitor's brightness and contrast from any Mac device.
You can also control the volume and switch the input of the monitor from Intel Macs (or M1 Macs using a Raspberry Pi controller).
It also brings a lot of improvements over Lunar 3:
• Auto-learning curve (when syncing monitors and one of them is a bit too dim or too bright, just adjust that monitor to the right brightness and Lunar will learn from that)
• FaceLight: Use your monitor as a really bright LED panel when you're having video calls in your cozy dark room
• External light sensor support (for users that use Mac Minis or Macbooks with the lid closed)
• Minor things like "Hide menubar icon", "Improved brightness/volume keys support", "Command-line interface" and many more!
The app can be used in free mode forever with some limitations:
• Sync, Location and Sensor mode are not available
• Manual adjustments have a limit of 100 per day (an adjustment only counts after you have finished fiddling with the brightness/contrast, not on every key press)
Lunar Pro includes all of the above and the pricing is quite straightforward:
$23 (USD) or €20 (EUR) for a Lunar Pro license valid forever!
The license also includes 1 year of free updates.
After the year passes, users will have to pay again to get new updates, but they can use the old license forever on updates released before the year has passed.
On first launch, a 14-day trial for Lunar Pro activates automatically without any payment details required, so that you have time to see if Lunar works for all your monitors and if you really need the Pro features.
After the 14 days, the trial simply deactivates and you can keep using Lunar in free mode.
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Really useful, works flawlessly and a beautiful interface
@gibbo Thanks Jon! Some people still get confused by the interface, but hey, at least it's beautiful 😇
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I have been a lunar user for the past 1 year & the minute I found this app I was in love with it. There were some glitches in the last version which has been fixed in version 4 along with more pro features - So Happy! Thank you :)
@rishish Thank you for the love! Although, there still are some glitches...
Glitches are part of the experience of using an app coded by a single person at 10PM in the night after 8 hours of working at a job they hate
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Absolutely great piece of software.
Not the kind you didn't know you need, the kind you desperately seek for, and then find out actually exist! I feel bad for PC users that done have such a wonderful app themselves.
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A must have if you don't want to toggle the physical buttons on your secondary monitor all day long, now working for M1, yeahy!
@andrei_blaj Sorry to keep you waiting 😊 I had to quit my job to finally find the time to finish Lunar 4. 24 hours in a day simply aren't enough for a developer
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Lunar is a must have for MacBook users using external monitors with no macOS-native brightness adjustment support.
I’ve been using this app for my three MacBooks already, including the current MacBook Air on M1 chip with a 4k LG monitor.
I love the available settings and the app’s UI. Thank you for your work, Alin!
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Great app, with a very polished and clean interface, developed by a very kind and responsive developer :-). Indeed, Lunar Pro is a must-have for external-monitor users!
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Allowed me to finally adjust the brightness on my 10 year old iMac I use as an external monitor. Only software brightness worked, but that's better than nothing. Really impressed.
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