Luxa: Brightness Booster
Try extra XDR brightness
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
Try extra brightness free on supported Mac displays. Luxa shows your hardware limit, stays on-device, and unlocks Pro with one purchase—not a subscription.
See your Mac when sunlight, window glare, or a bright room makes the screen difficult to read.
Luxa is a focused menu bar brightness booster. It detects the display in front of you, shows the range macOS currently supports, and lets you try a useful boost free before deciding whether to unlock Pro.
FREE TO TRY
On an XDR or EDR-capable display, the free preview reaches up to 125%. Standard displays receive a smaller adjustment up to 110%. There is no timer and no account.
DISPLAY-AWARE BOOST
Luxa reads the current extended dynamic range headroom reported by macOS. Luxa Pro unlocks the full supported range, capped at 200%. Standard displays use a conservative Pro fallback capped at 120%—Luxa never labels them as XDR.
CONTROL FROM THE MENU BAR
- Smooth brightness slider
- Normal, Sunlight, and Night Safe presets
- Choose one display or control all connected displays
- Live status for active, starting, permission, and failure states
- Clear explanation when hardware, battery, temperature, or your safety cap limits the range
BUILT-IN GUARDRAILS
- Custom maximum safety cap
- Optional battery-aware scaling
- Thermal soft limiting
- Automatic display refresh when monitors connect or disconnect
- Clean reset across sleep, wake, and quit
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
The XDR method needs Screen Recording permission because it reads the visible display image and redraws it in an extended-range surface. Frames are processed on your Mac and are not recorded, saved, analyzed, or uploaded.
Luxa 1.1 has no account, analytics SDK, advertising SDK, cloud sync, or network client entitlement. Preferences stay on your Mac.
ONE-TIME PRO
Luxa Pro is one optional purchase, not a subscription. Customers who originally bought paid version 1.0 receive Pro automatically.
REQUIREMENTS
- macOS 13 or later
- Strongest results require an XDR/EDR-capable display
- Screen Recording permission is required for the XDR/EDR path
- Available brightness can change with display capability, macOS settings, reference mode, power, ambient conditions, and temperature
Luxa is a readability utility, not a color-grading control. Return to 100% before color-critical work.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Luxa 1.1.1 improves recognition of existing paid customers.
- Customers who paid for version 1.0 or 1.1 keep Luxa Pro access automatically
- New customers can try the free brightness range before a one-time Pro upgrade
- Sandbox testing no longer mistakes Apple's placeholder receipt for a paid download
Your display-supported limits, on-device screen processing, and battery and thermal safeguards remain in place. Restore Purchase is available in the Pro sheet and Settings.
The developer, BILLY PAUL MASON, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- BILLY PAUL MASON
- Size
- 826.5 KB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Luxa Pro $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Billy Paul Mason
