Libre Hardware Monitor, a fork of Open Hardware Monitor , is free software that can monitor the temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of your computer.
Rainmeter AlternativesOnly apps categorised as System Information Utilities
The best System Information alternative to Rainmeter is Libre Hardware Monitor, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Rainmeter and 11 are System Information Utilities so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting System Information Utility alternatives to Rainmeter are Conky, Sidebar Diagnostics, hwinfo and GKrellM.
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34 Libre Hardware Monitor alternatives
30 Conky alternativesConky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop. Originally a fork of Torsmo, Conkys torsmo-based code is BSD licensed. New code in Conky has been licensed under the GPL 3.0.
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60 Sidebar Diagnostics alternativesOffers at-a-glance hardware monitoring for CPU, RAM, GPU, network, and drives through a customizable sidebar with alerts, hotkey support, multi-DPI compatibility, an integrated clock, themes, and clear graphical statistics on the Windows desktop.
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128 hwinfo alternativeshwinfo/libhd are used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.
21 GKrellM alternativesGKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its appearance to your window manager, Gtk, or any other theme.
24 BgInfo alternativesHow many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version If you manage multiple computers you...
macOS and OSX tool showing real-time CPU, memory, network activity, fan speed, and temperature in the menu bar. Highly configurable, with customizable battery notifications, support for light or dark mode, open-source code, and ongoing community-driven updates.
Nerdtool allows you to display many things directly on top of your desktop; weather reports, headline news, and system vitals are just a few uses.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
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WPInfo displays system information on the Windows wallpaper. It works similarly to BGInfo from SysInternals but it adds a few unique features:
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
United States
Germany
EU
France
Japan
Conky lacks a main repository for adding/removing desktop widgets, nor maintains any central database of them.