5 alternatives to MonitorControl

monitorcontrol/monitorcontrol — 🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs. (34,527 stars, MIT, ui, dev-tools, infra).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 28 licence-cleared components from monitorcontrol/monitorcontrol itself.

The alternatives in detail

• dwarvesf/hidden
  An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons
  score 2.1/10 · MIT permissive · 15,248 stars · 33 components · search them
• codeeditapp/codeedit
  📝 CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.
  score 6.5/10 · MIT permissive · 23,081 stars · 606 components · search them · alternatives
• openclaw/peekaboo
  Peekaboo is a macOS CLI & optional MCP server that enables AI agents to capture screenshots of applications, or the entire system, with optional visual question answering through local or remote AI models.
  score 6.7/10 · MIT permissive · 5,361 stars · 1,212 components · search them
• hackiftekhar/iqkeyboardmanager
  Codeless drop-in universal library allows to prevent issues of keyboard sliding up and cover UITextField/UITextView. Neither need to write any code nor any setup required and much more.
  score 4.0/10 · MIT permissive · 16,617 stars · 33 components · search them
• johncoates/aerial
  Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for Mac
  score 4.1/10 · MIT permissive · 20,971 stars · 133 components · search them

Licence data: JustClaw-It's per-repo licence policy. Is MonitorControl still maintained? Check it. Licence details: licence checker. Ranking data from 2026-11-01T21:52:18Z.