| What it does | The Activity Monitor for the AI era
| Free Windows brightness control for laptops and external monitors with hardware DDC/CI or software dimming
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| Stage | Not given
| Startup
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| Founded | Not given
| 2025
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| Based in | US
| CA
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| Pricing model | Paid
| Freemium
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| Pricing | $5 for the first 100 licenses, then $19. One-time purchase with no subscription. Every future update included for life.
| Free version at no cost. Pro is $5.99 USD, one-time purchase with no subscription.
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| Key features | - Groups processes into apps for clearer resource monitoring
- 30 days of history for every metric and app
- Smart alerts based on learned app behavior
- Neural Engine power monitoring and estimated load
- Local AI workload detection for Ollama, LM Studio and other models
- Model Fit Advisor to check if models will fit on your Mac
- Ask Cortex on-device AI assistant for Mac questions
- Menu bar integration with multiple display styles
- Daily digest notifications of Mac activity summary
- Dev server monitoring and project organization
| - Per-display brightness and contrast control
- DDC/CI hardware brightness control
- Gamma software dimming fallback
- Scheduled brightness rules by time of day
- Per-app brightness rules
- Color temperature control with blue light filter (Pro)
- Brightness presets to save and recall (Pro)
- Command-line automation (Pro)
- Custom linked display groups (Pro)
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| What makes it different | - Only monitor showing Neural Engine metrics and local AI model visibility
- Complete process-to-app grouping for easier identification of resource consumers
- 30 days of history instead of forgetting data immediately
- All data stays completely local with no accounts or analytics
| - Works when hardware brightness fails with automatic fallback to software dimming
- Separate brightness control for each connected monitor
- Free core features with optional one-time Pro upgrade, no subscription
- Lightweight and responsive app design
- Independently developed with direct developer support
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 9 ▲ +3 (up) since last check | 34 ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 0 | 2 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 18 | 22 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 17 | 13 |
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Cortex
Display Dimmer