thinkfan Alternatives

thinkfan is described as 'Thinkfan is a simple, lightweight fan control program. Originally designed specifically for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads, it now supports any kind of system via the sysfs hwmon interface (/sys/class/hwmon). It is designed to eat as little CPU power as possible' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to thinkfan for Windows, Linux, Mac and Flathub. The best thinkfan alternative is SpeedFan, which is free. Other great apps like thinkfan are CoreCtrl, Macs Fan Control, fan-control and Lm-Sensors.

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  1. SpeedFan icon
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    SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers and controls the fans if possible.

    51 SpeedFan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • SpeedFan is the most popular Windows alternative to thinkfan.

    • SpeedFan is the most popular free alternative to thinkfan.

    • SpeedFan is Free and Proprietarythinkfan is Free and Open Source
    • SpeedFan is Lightweightthinkfan is not according to our users
  2. CoreCtrl icon
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    CoreCtrl is a Free and Open Source GNU/Linux application that allows you to control with ease your computer hardware using application profiles.

    17 CoreCtrl alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • CoreCtrl is the most popular Linux alternative to thinkfan.

    • CoreCtrl is the most popular Open Source alternative to thinkfan.

    • CoreCtrl is Free and Open Sourcethinkfan is also Free and Open Source
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    Monitor and control fans on Apple computers with a simple and efficient user interface

    20 Macs Fan Control alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • Macs Fan Control is the most popular Mac alternative to thinkfan.

    • Macs Fan Control is Freemium and Proprietarythinkfan is Free and Open Source
  4. Lm-Sensors icon
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    Lm-Sensors is a free and open-source application that provides tools and drivers for monitoring temperatures, voltage, and fans.

    28 Lm-Sensors alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. TPFanControl icon
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    Solution to the cooling fan noise annoyances Thinkpad T4x (T40/T41/T42/T43) notebook series. Allows the user to control fan activity based on the system temperature. Win XP Visual C++ project controls the fan via port IO to the embedded controller.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    36 smcFanControl alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    This software detects and optionally controls speed of CPU fan of many PC-Systems. Furthermore you are able to configure the handling of the EC-registers on your own (risk). To determine the EC-registers use e.g. software like "rw everything".

    5 NoteBook FanControl alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. fancontrol icon
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    fancontrol is a shell script for use with lm_sensors. It reads its configuration from a file, then calculates fan speeds from temperatures and sets the corresponding PWM outputs to the computed values.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    45 Fanny alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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