Open Hardware Monitor Alternatives

Open Hardware Monitor is described as 'The Open Hardware Monitor is a free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer' and is a very popular system information utility in the system & hardware category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Open Hardware Monitor for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and Flatpak apps. The best Open Hardware Monitor alternative is HWiNFO (32/64). It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try HWiNFO (32/64) or Libre Hardware Monitor. Other great apps like Open Hardware Monitor are GPU Screen Recorder, Sidebar Diagnostics, Stats and HWMonitor.

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  1. OCAT icon
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    Open Capture and Analytics Tool. If you want to know how well a game is performing on your machine in real-time with low overhead. It supports all major APIs on Windows – Direct3D® 11, 12 and Vulkan® – and can show an in-game overlay.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. CatWalk icon
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    A simple plasmoid showing the total CPU usage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
     
  3. Nvtray icon
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    NVTray provides some extra quality tweaks that both the default NVIDIA tray icon and control panel are lacking. I especially wanted to be able to select more Antialiasing modes, as well as OpenGL and Direct3D options right from the tray icon.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Pitikapp icon
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    Pitikapp provides highly customizable modules to monitor your computer and to interact with it.

    18 Pitikapp alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. GPU Fan Control tool. Contribute to marcelloti/gpu-fan-control development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. MenuBar Stats 2 has been reinvented. Completely re-written from the ground up. MenuBar Stats 2 is composed of modules (CPU, Disk, Network,...). Each module can be seen in your menu bar. Each module can be combined in 1 window, or in a separated window.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Translucent provides detailed real-time information about what is going on inside your Mac. At any given time Translucent displays how much each one of your processors is being utilized, detailed information about how your memory is being used, how much data is being sent and...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Linpack is a benchmark and the most aggressive stress testing software available today. Best used to test stability of overclocked PCs. Linpack tends to crash unstable PCs in a shorter period of time compared to other stress testing applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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