LogoLight 1.3.1

• Lit with Lid Closed now works on power, without an external display. Close the lid with the charger in, and the logo stays lit, with your effect or the Charging light, while the keyboard stays dark. Until now it needed an external display, because a closed lid put the Mac to sleep. LogoLight now keeps your Mac awake behind the closed lid while this option and the logo are on and the Mac is plugged in. On battery nothing changes: the Mac sleeps when you close it. While the option is on and the Mac is on power, it also doesn't go to idle sleep (the display still sleeps as usual).
• The menu item's second line now reads "On power or a display".

Everything from 1.3.0 is here too: the Charging light, the LogoLight switch, and the fix for tinted external displays.

Download LogoLight-1.3.1.zip below. It's signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Unzip it, move LogoLight to Applications and open it. Your settings carry over.

Requires a MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display (macOS 14 or later; Sound needs macOS 14.2, and the Control Center control macOS 26).

Website: https://logolight.app

Free and open source (MIT). If you like it, you can buy me a coffee.

LogoLight 1.3.0

• Charging light: a new Charging switch, under Battery. Turn it on, and the logo breathes like an old Mac's sleep light while the battery charges, from the moment you plug in, then goes back to your effect. It peaks at your brightness, and stops once the battery is full or held at a charge limit.
• The switch at the top is now called LogoLight (it was Backlight), in the menu and in Control Center. A control you already placed keeps working.
• Lit with Lid Closed no longer tints external displays. With the lid closed, True Tone was adapting them to the covered light sensor, which made them warm and dim. Thanks to @p3solutions-co (#7).
• Codeman: LogoLight steps aside while Codeman shows its agents on the logo, and takes the logo back afterwards. Nothing changes if you don't use Codeman.

Everything from 1.2.0 is here too: Sound, the battery indicator, Morse code and Lit with Lid Closed.

Download LogoLight-1.3.0.zip below. It's signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Unzip it, move LogoLight to Applications and open it. Your settings carry over.

Requires a MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display (macOS 14 or later; Sound needs macOS 14.2, and the Control Center control macOS 26).

Website: https://logolight.app

Free and open source (MIT). If you like it, you can buy me a coffee.

LogoLight 1.2.0

• Sound: a new effect. Turn it on, and the logo glows with whatever your Mac is playing: brighter as it gets louder, dark between beats, peaking at your brightness. It hears the sound through a system audio tap (macOS 14.2 or later), so macOS asks once to let LogoLight hear it, under System Audio Recording Only. Nothing is recorded: each moment of sound is reduced to a level and dropped.

Everything from 1.1.1 is here too: the battery indicator, Morse code and Lit with Lid Closed.

Download LogoLight-1.2.0.zip below. It's signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Unzip it, move LogoLight to Applications and open it. Your settings carry over.

Requires a MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display (macOS 14 or later; Sound needs macOS 14.2, and the Control Center control macOS 26).

Website: https://logolight.app

Free and open source (MIT). If you like it, you can buy me a coffee.

LogoLight 1.1.1

• Lit with Lid Closed is in the menu: using an external display with the lid closed? Turn it on, and the logo stays lit, with its effects, while the keyboard stays dark. It needs the external display, as the menu says: without one, closing the lid puts the Mac to sleep, and the logo goes dark with it.

Everything from 1.1.0 is here too: the battery indicator and Morse code.

Download LogoLight-1.1.1.zip below. It's signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Unzip it, move LogoLight to Applications and open it. Your settings carry over.

Requires a MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display (macOS 14 or later; the Control Center control needs macOS 26).

Website: https://logolight.app

Free and open source (MIT). If you like it, you can buy me a coffee.

LogoLight 1.1.0

Two new things for the logo, both asked for after the launch.

• Battery indicator: turn on Battery under the brightness slider, and the logo shows your charge: full brightness when the battery is full, dimming as it runs down.
• Morse code: type a message and press play to flash it on the logo. Turn on loop to repeat it until you press stop. Contributed by @johnseth97 (#1).

Fixes:

• With the brightness below full, the logo stayed lit when you closed the lid with an external display attached. It now goes dark, as macOS has it.
• Effects that rise from dark start on time, even when nothing on the screen is changing.

Download LogoLight-1.1.0.zip below. It's signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Unzip it, move LogoLight to Applications and open it. Your settings carry over from 1.0.

Requires a MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display (macOS 14 or later; the Control Center control needs macOS 26).

Website: https://logolight.app

Free and open source (MIT). If you like it, you can buy me a coffee.

LogoLight 1.0.0

The first release of LogoLight: control the glowing Apple logo on the back of your MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, right from the menu bar.

• Backlight switch, or Option-click the menu bar icon: the logo fades out and back in, with no password needed
• Brightness slider, eased smoothly onto each level
• Effects: Breathe, Pulse and Heartbeat, made from the LED's own hardware fades
• A live view of your lid at the top of the menu, in its own finish (space black or silver)
• A Control Center control (macOS 26 or later), which can also go in the menu bar
• Launch at Login

Download LogoLight-1.0.0.zip below. It's signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Unzip it, move LogoLight to Applications and open it.

Requires a MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display (macOS 14 or later; the Control Center control needs macOS 26).

Website: https://logolight.app

Free and open source (MIT). If you like it, you can buy me a coffee.