Beyond Built-in OLED Care
Your monitor protects one panel, its own way. OLED Guard Pro adds intelligent, content-aware burn-in protection to every OLED on your Windows PC, whatever brand you own, and keeps working where panel firmware stops: inside games, across multiple displays, and on the laptops and OLED TVs your monitor's tools never reach.
Where OLED Guard Pro Goes Further
Built-in OLED care is a good baseline. OLED Guard Pro is the intelligent layer on top, doing what panel firmware was never designed to do.
Every OLED, not just one panel
Built-in OLED care: Built-in OLED care lives in the monitor firmware, so it only protects that one panel from that one brand.
OLED Guard Pro: OLED Guard Pro protects every OLED connected to your Windows PC the same way: any brand, plus laptop OLEDs and OLED TVs used as monitors that often have no panel tools at all.
Content-aware, down to the pixel
Built-in OLED care: Panel features dim broad regions or a few fixed categories (the taskbar, a logo, letterbox bars).
OLED Guard Pro: OLED Guard Pro models per-pixel exposure in real time and protects the exact static content at risk, whether that is a game HUD, a docked editor panel, or a pinned chat window.
Built for gaming
Built-in OLED care: Generic panel dimming has no idea what a game is doing, and can dim the action you are watching.
OLED Guard Pro: A purpose-built gaming mode keeps working inside borderless fullscreen with edge-weighted protection and per-game profiles, so HUDs stay protected and gameplay stays clear.
Control that follows your workflow
Built-in OLED care: A fixed firmware menu, set once and the same for everything you do.
OLED Guard Pro: Choose your mode and strength, switch presets automatically per app, tune protection per display, and reach the monitor hardware directly over DDC/CI.
Side by Side
What your monitor's firmware covers, and what OLED Guard Pro adds on top.
| Capability | Built-in OLED care | OLED Guard Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Works on every OLED on your PC, any brand | ||
| Protects laptop OLEDs and OLED TVs used as monitors | ||
| Per-pixel, content-aware protection | ||
| Detects static HUDs, editor panels, and chat windows | ||
| Real-time protection while you actively work and play | ||
| Game-aware: borderless fullscreen, edge-weighted, per-game | ||
| Per-app protection profiles | ||
| Direct monitor brightness and contrast control (DDC/CI) | ||
| One consistent setup across a multi-monitor rig | ||
| Protects even if your monitor has no OLED care at all |
A dash means partial or brand-dependent. Keep your monitor's built-in care on; OLED Guard Pro layers on top and covers everything it leaves out.
Software That Reaches the Hardware
OLED Guard Pro is not limited to drawing on top of your screen. It speaks directly to your monitor's firmware over DDC/CI, the VESA MCCS standard, to control brightness and contrast at the hardware level, bypassing the Windows color stack entirely.
That means real, panel-level adjustments driven by the same content-aware engine that protects your pixels, on whatever monitor you own, with deeper hardware-level integration on the roadmap.
Works With Whatever You Own
No built-in OLED care on your panel? OLED Guard Pro is your protection. Already have it? OLED Guard Pro makes it smarter.
Built-in OLED Care vs OLED Guard Pro: FAQ
Is OLED Guard Pro better than my monitor's built-in OLED care?
They protect at different levels, and OLED Guard Pro reaches further. Built-in OLED care is tied to one panel and works in broad strokes: pixel shift, scheduled refresh cycles, and on some brands coarse dimming of the taskbar or a logo. OLED Guard Pro adds a content-aware layer that models per-pixel exposure in real time, protects the specific static content at risk, works on every OLED on your Windows PC regardless of brand, and keeps working inside borderless fullscreen games. If you want intelligent, cross-device protection, OLED Guard Pro is the layer your panel's firmware cannot provide.
Does OLED Guard Pro work with Samsung OLED Safeguard+, ASUS OLED Care Pro, or MSI OLED Care?
Yes. OLED Guard Pro runs on top of whatever your monitor already does, adding content-aware protection your panel's tools do not provide. And on any OLED that has no built-in care, including most laptop OLEDs and OLED TVs used as monitors, OLED Guard Pro is the protection.
My monitor has no OLED care. Can OLED Guard Pro protect it?
Yes, and that is exactly where it shines. OLED Guard Pro delivers full content-aware burn-in protection to any OLED connected to a Windows PC, so you are covered even on panels, laptops, and OLED TVs that ship with no protection features of their own.
Can software really control monitor hardware?
Yes. OLED Guard Pro talks directly to your monitor's firmware over DDC/CI (the VESA MCCS standard) to manage brightness and contrast, bypassing the Windows color stack, and deeper hardware-level integration is on the roadmap.
Protect Every OLED You Own
Intelligent, content-aware OLED burn-in protection for Windows. One time purchase, available on the Microsoft Store and Steam.