Light, tuned.
Glint is a free, lightweight Windows tray utility for controlling display brightness and audio volume — all monitors, all apps, one flyout. Built by Northbyte Studios.
- Per-monitor brightness sliders in a tray flyout, including external monitors (via DDC/CI) and the laptop's internal panel (via WMI).
- Multi-monitor support with hot-plug detection — plug/unplug a monitor and the flyout updates automatically.
- Brightness sync — optionally move all displays together, each clamped independently so relative brightness differences are preserved.
- Brightness presets — save the current levels across all displays and recall them with one click; presets are renameable inline.
- Master volume + per-app volume mixer built into the same flyout.
- Global hotkeys for brightness and volume up/down (remappable in
settings.jsonfor this release). - Dark, minimal UI with a cyan accent — no light theme, no clutter.
- Zero telemetry. Glint makes no network requests and collects no data, ever.
- Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit.
- A display connected via a cable that supports DDC/CI for external-monitor brightness control (most modern monitors do; some budget/older monitors or certain docking-station/adapter setups don't expose it). If a monitor doesn't support DDC/CI, Glint shows it in the flyout with a "not supported" note instead of a non-functional slider — it won't crash or hang.
Requires the .NET 8 SDK.
BUILD.bat
This runs:
dotnet publish src\Glint.App\Glint.App.csproj -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained true -p:PublishSingleFile=true
and assembles a clean output folder at dist\Glint\ containing Glint.exe
(self-contained — no .NET install required on the target machine) plus the
license and notice files.
Just run Glint.exe. It starts minimized to the system tray — left-click the
tray icon to open the flyout, right-click for the menu (Open / Exit).
Logs are written to %AppData%\Glint\logs\. Settings are stored in
%AppData%\Glint\settings.json.
Glint collects no data, makes no network requests, and includes no telemetry,
ads, or analytics of any kind. Everything — settings, presets, logs — stays on
your PC in %AppData%\Glint\.
This is a v1.0.0-alpha build (Session 1). Planned next:
- HDR / SDR brightness handling for HDR displays
- Time-based brightness scheduling
- Per-application brightness/volume profiles
- Start with Windows toggle
- Scroll-to-adjust on the tray icon (pending verification of platform support)
MIT — see LICENSE.txt. Third-party components are listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt.
Built by Northbyte Studios.