About ChromaLayer

ChromaLayer is a Windows tray app that gives your laptop's built-in display seven coordinated color controls — and, more to the point, keeps them applied.

The problem we built it for

You open your graphics control panel, drag saturation up, and your screen finally looks like the panel you paid for. Then you reboot, or wake the laptop from sleep, or a driver update lands — and it's back to default. Nothing tells you it was reset. There's no error. You only notice because the screen looks flat again.

The setting isn't being deleted, it's being un-applied. Windows tears down and rebuilds the display pipeline on sign-in, unlock, resume and display changes, and nothing that set a value once is watching to put it back. That distinction is the entire reason this product exists.

What it does

Seven controls — Vibrancy, Color Temperature, Brightness, Contrast, Black Level, White Point and Hue — plus five presets (Natural, Vivid, Cinema, Gaming, Night). A watchdog checks every five seconds that your settings are still actually applied and re-applies them if they aren't, and after every sign-in, unlock, resume and display change it keeps re-applying on a schedule that runs out to 25 seconds, covering the late compositor reset that defeats most attempts at this.

It applies color through the Windows Magnification API — the same mechanism Windows' own accessibility color filters use. No kernel driver, no elevation, no account. It works on all GPUs — Intel, AMD and NVIDIA — tested and verified on each.

What it doesn't do

We'd rather you read this here than find out after paying $5.99.

• It is not a calibration tool. It has no colorimeter and measures nothing. The temperature control shifts your display warmer or cooler by preference — it does not produce a measured, accurate white point. If you need real calibration, you need a hardware probe.
• Built-in laptop display only, SDR, one active display. No HDR support, no multi-monitor color control.
• It doesn't detect conflicts with f.lux or Night Light. If you use either, you may want to turn it off while using ChromaLayer.
• The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen will warn you the first time you run it.

You can restore your original colors at any time — from the tray menu, the main window, orCtrl+Shift+Alt+R from anywhere.

How we write

Every article on this site shows the free fix first, in full, with its primary source cited — the Microsoft, Intel or vendor documentation that actually describes the behaviour. If the free path solves your problem, we say so and tell you to keep your money. ChromaLayer only gets introduced for what the free fixes genuinely leave unsolved, and its limits get stated before its pitch does.

Who builds it

Gurjogeshwar Singh

Founder

Founder of ChromaLayer. Works on the color engine and how Windows display settings get applied and kept applied.

Aditya Singh

Co-founder

Co-founder of ChromaLayer. Writes about Windows display internals and why laptop color settings refuse to stay put.