HWMonitor Alternatives for Mac

HWMonitor is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is Intel® Power Gadget, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to HWMonitor and five of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to HWMonitor are Temperature Monitor, smcFanControl, Fanny and Coolbook.

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HWMonitor alternatives page was last updated Jan 16, 2025
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  1. Intel® Power Gadget icon

    Intel® Power Gadget

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    Intel® Power Gadget is a software-based power estimation tool enabled for 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processors or newer. It provides real-time processor package power information in watts using energy counters.

    17 Intel® Power Gadget alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Intel® Power Gadget screenshot 1

    Intel® Power Gadget Features

    1.  Temperature Monitoring
    2.  Hardware Monitoring

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    • Intel® Power Gadget is the most popular Mac alternative to HWMonitor.

    • Intel® Power Gadget is Free and ProprietaryHWMonitor is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Temperature Monitor

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    Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all accessible temperature sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can visualize the history graphs of the readings, display measured values in a large variety of fashions, or announce readings by speech output.

    15 Temperature Monitor alternatives

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Discontinued

    Development, support and advertizing for Temperature Monitor have ended on October 1, 2014.http://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html

    Temperature Monitor Features

    1.  Sensors
    2.  Temperature Monitoring

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  4. smcFanControl icon

    smcFanControl

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    smcFanControl is the perfect application for all those Macbook owners getting burned by their hot-running Macbook.

    34 smcFanControl alternatives

    License model

    • Free Personal • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    smcFanControl screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Not updated for many years, does not work on new hardware

    smcFanControl Features

    1.  Fan Speed
    2.  Image Sharing

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  5. Fanny icon

    Fanny

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    Fanny is a free Notification Center Widget and Menu Bar application to monitor your Macs fans.

    43 Fanny alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Fanny screenshot 1

    Fanny Features

    1.  Hardware Monitoring
    2.  GPU Monitoring
    3.  CPU temperature
    4.  Fan Speed

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    Coolbook

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    CoolBook is a tool for the MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro computers. It lets you monitor the frequency, voltage and temperature of the CoreDuo / Core2Duo CPU.

    23 Coolbook alternatives

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Discontinued

    CoolBook does not work with OS X 10.7 Lion or later. i3/i5/i7 CPUs are not supported. Latest release from 2011-02-24. See http://www.coolbook.se/CoolBook.html

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