What's new in Vivid 2.9
Mar 12, 2024
- Fixed a startup crash for some users
- Dock icon now has Vivid menu on right-click
New in Vivid 2.8 (Dec 12, 2023)
- New launch options - you can now set Vivid to start on system, but not turn on.
- You can now sync and control the brightness of all external monitors
- Fixed a bug which showed a brightness error, even if Vivid was working
New in Vivid 2.5 (Jan 6, 2023)
- Fixes for Vivid showing an unintended alert at system startup
New in Vivid 2.4.1 (Dec 6, 2022)
- A little patch for some users using window management software like Workspaces or MonitorControl
New in Vivid 2.4 (Dec 2, 2022)
- Shortcuts are here! Automate Vivid into your workflow with support for macOS Shortcuts
- Fixed a Sleep and external display issue which caused a warning popup to appear
- Resolved issues with over saturated brightness when using window manager tools
- Fixed an issue with the Vivid brightness icon appearing without user interaction
- Solved the 'Hide Dock Icon' option not setting properly
- Fixed an issue where Vivid could not be enabled if your MacBook was locked
New in Vivid 2.3 (Nov 28, 2022)
- Solved an issue where in some scenarios colors would be displayed incorrectly.
- The Vivid circle icon won’t appear anymore if you use the Automatic Brightness Adjust feature in macOS.
New in Vivid 2.2.1 (Oct 30, 2022)
- Fixes for Vivid/Eclipse mode toggling
- Fixes an issue where colours on Studio Display could look incorrect
- Fixes for Eclipse mode on multiple displays
New in Vivid 2.2 (Oct 30, 2022)
- Fixes an issue where colours on Studio Display could look incorrect
- Fixes for Eclipse mode on multiple displays
New in Vivid 2.1 (Oct 30, 2022)
- Fixes for multiple display connect & disconnect
New in Vivid 2.0 (Oct 18, 2022)
- Even more seamless across macOS
- 99% Less CPU Usage
- Better video support
- New: Eclipse Mode for better low-level brightness
New in Vivid 1.8 (Sep 15, 2022)
- Fixed an issue where some users were seeing a small visual glitch on their desktop
- Right click on the Vivid menubar icon to enable / disable in Clarity Mode
- Clearer error messages when validating license keys
- Now properly show Vivid icon in full screen apps in Clarity Mode
New in Vivid 1.7 (Aug 4, 2022)
- We've been working hard this summer to make it even easier for you to take your MacBook out into the sunshine. This update includes 'Clarity Mode', which you can enable from the Experimental section in the Vivid preferences. It improves support for full screen apps, Spaces and more. Please try it out and let us know what you think!
New in Vivid 1.6 (May 16, 2022)
- Fixed an issue with the cursor getting stuck when switching clamshell mode
- Moved ‘Show Dock Icon’ into preferences
- Stability improvements for the win
New in Vivid 1.5 (Apr 26, 2022)
- Huge improvements to white flashes and issues with Mission Control, Expose and Desktop Spaces
- Tidied up brightness logic so it always maxes out the system brightness to full before Vivid kicks in and also moves the system brightness in more natural increments
- We’ve enabled the fix for the video issues by default. You can disable this from Prefences > Experimental if you experience any issues (we haven’t heard about any so far)
- Vivid will now ask to move itself out of your Downloads folder, so auto updates can then work
New in Vivid 1.4 (Apr 19, 2022)
- This update has a new (much better) fix for video related issues some were reporting. Please try it out and let us know what you think. You can enable this via Experiments in the Preferences panel
- Added a new option to only brighten the active window. This is great for when you need to focus, or if you want to save some battery by not brightening up your entire screen.
- The menu bar icon is now more visible in both light and dark mode
- Vivid now also works in custom resolutions that are higher than the default ones
- Decreased the app size
New in Vivid 1.3 (Apr 19, 2022)
- Experimental Fix for the white overlay on videos in Safari problem. Enable it from Preferences > Experimental
- Set custom keyboard shortcuts for toggling, increasing and decreasing Vivid. Open Preferences and go to the Shortcuts tab to set it up. This should also be useful for people with external keyboards where the brightness keys don't work correctly.
- Fixes for MacBook in Clamshell mode
- Improved external keyboard support even more
- Small text changes in the menu bar
New in Vivid 1.2 (Apr 11, 2022)
- We've introduced a Dock icon for users who can't see the Menu bar icon. You can turn off the Dock icon by choosing 'Hide Dock Icon' in the menu bar options
- Better support for external keyboards
- Changes to the brightness adjustment to make it smoother, more work coming here soon