MacThrottle
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Lightweight macOS tool that tracks thermal pressure and throttling, shows real time CPU temperature and fan speed, provides 10-minute history graphs, statistics for thermal states, and customizable notifications, all without requiring administrator privileges.
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Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- No registration required
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Works Offline
- Hardware Monitoring
- Sits in the MenuBar
- Temperature Monitoring
- CPU temperature
Tags
- thermal-monitor
- thermal-analysis
- mac-utility
- GPU Temperature
- throttling
- thermal
- hardware-throttling
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Cool. This app works fantastic and is super clean looking. Love that it's open source. It would be nice if I could adjust fan speed from the utility as well.
MacThrottle information
Developed by
Stanislas Lange Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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OS & Utilities, System & HardwareGitHub repository
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- 18 Forks
- 6 Open Issues
- Updated
What is MacThrottle?
A lightweight macOS menu bar app that monitors thermal pressure and alerts you when your Mac is being throttled. No admin privileges required.
Features:
- Displays thermal pressure state in the menu bar using different thermometer icons
- Shows CPU core temperature (reads directly from SMC)
- Shows fan speed percentage (on Macs with fans)
- History graph showing thermal state, temperature, and fan speed over the last 10 minutes
- Statistics showing time spent in each thermal state
- Configurable notifications:
- When heavy throttling begins
- When critical throttling occurs
- When throttling stops (recovery)
- Optional notification sounds
- Launch at Login option
- No helper daemon or admin privileges required
Comments and Reviews
Cool. This app works fantastic and is super clean looking. Love that it's open source. It would be nice if I could adjust fan speed from the utility as well.