Alternatives to Fan Control for all platforms with any license

Open Hardware Monitor

Monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds, with optional graph.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Mono
Temperature Monitoring Hardware Monitoring Voltage monitoring Hardware Monitoring ... Portable Temperature Monitoring Add a feature

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SpeedFan

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers and controls the fans if possible.
- Discontinued The developer promised new versions, but the program seems to be no longer updated. Latest version, 4.52, released in June 2016, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- It does not serve the purpose of providing one with a method to dictate their system's fan speeds. Guest • Jun 2016 • 5 agrees and 4 disagrees
Free Windows
Fan speed control Fan speed control Hardware Monitoring Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Add a feature

229 Like
AIDA64

AIDA64 offers a complete set of tools to benchmark, overclock, monitor, fine-tune, and troubleshoot Windows based desktop and mobile computers. .

Freemium Windows Android iPhone Windows S Android Tablet ... Windows Phone iPad Tizen OS Ubuntu Touch
Hardware Monitoring System Info Add a feature

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HWMonitor

HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed.

Freemium Windows
Hardware Monitoring Hardware Monitoring Temperature Monitoring Add a feature

87 Like
Sidebar Diagnostics

A simple sidebar for Windows desktop that displays hardware diagnostic information.

Free Open Source Windows
Temperature Monitoring Configurable Fan speed control Hardware Monitoring ... Performance Monitoring Real-time monitoring Temperature Monitoring Add a feature

31 Like
iStat Menus

iStat is a series of system monitor apps. It's available in different versions: iStat Menus, iStat for iOS and iStat Server as a companion application to the iStat...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac iPhone
Fan speed control Hardware Monitoring Sits in the System Tray Add a feature

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Macs Fan Control

Every model of iMac, MacBook (Pro/Air), Mac mini, Mac Pro is supported! Real-time monitoring of fans speed and temperature sensors
- Simple UI with rule-based settings. michaelhood • Jun 2018
Free Mac Windows
Automated speed adjustments Fan speed control Add a feature

6 Like
Real Temp

Real Temp is a temperature monitoring program designed for all Intel single Core, Dual Core, Quad Core and Core i7 processors.

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

18 Like
smcFanControl

smcFanControl is the perfect application for all those Macbook owners getting burned by their hot-running Macbook. This Mac application allows you to control the speed...
- Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 2.6, released in October 2016, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Commercial Mac
Fan speed control Picture sharing Add a feature

17 Like
CPU Frequency Selector

cinnamon-cpufreq-applet - Port of Gnome 3 CPUFreq applet to Cinnamon - with some fixes.

Free Open Source Linux Cinnamon GNOME
Hardware Monitoring Pitch Shifting Shift management System Info Add a feature

8 Like
Lm-Sensors

Lm-Sensors is a free and open-source application that provides tools and drivers for monitoring temperatures, voltage, and fans.

Free Open Source Linux
Fan speed control Temperature Monitoring Add a feature

11 Like
TPFanControl

TPFanControl will reduce the fan noise of your IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad. Most Thinkpads have the problem that the BIOS-based fan controlling is bad - it seems to enable...

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

9 Like
AMD Overdrive Utility

Personalize your experience with state-of-the-art real-time overclocking*. Used by world record setting overclockers across the globe, AMD OverDrive™ gives you...

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

4 Like
Lubbo's MacBook Pro Fan Control

Speed fan controller and temp monitoring for MacBook Pro Unibody (Nvidia) for Windows under BootCamp. It allows to control MacBook fans speeds depending on the CPU and...

Free Open Source Windows
No features added Add a feature

1 Like
3C Toolbox

Comprehensive toolbox to save battery, tweak, tune, backup, secure and monitor any Android devices.

Freemium Android
Hardware Monitoring System Info Add a feature

9 Like