What is Crisp?
Manage external displays from the menu bar: HiDPI scaling, DDC brightness, color, and presets.
Verified product facts
- Type
- Mac utilityEditorially reviewed
- Platform
- macOS
- Pricing
- Open sourceDeveloper-stated
- Open source
- Yes
- Relationship to Nuanyue
- Third-party product — not published by NuanyueEditorially reviewed
- Current version
- 1.6.0Developer-stated
- Official website
- didriksg.github.io/Crisp/
Last reviewed . Facts marked developer-stated come from the developer and are not independently confirmed; editorially reviewed marks a Nuanyue judgement.
What Crisp does
A free, open-source alternative to BetterDisplay and Lunar: DDC brightness, HiDPI scaling, presets, virtual displays, and arrangement, all in the menu bar, plus a command line tool.
Overview
Manage external displays from the menu bar: HiDPI scaling, DDC brightness, color, and presets.
Crisp runs on macOS and is listed on Nuanyue in the utilities category.
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Links
Sources
Facts on this page are checked against the sources below. Last reviewed .
- Crisp — official websiteGrade B
- Crisp — source repositoryGrade D