Check real-time temperatures, adjust fan speed, and automate your settings with Pro.
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Apple verifies every version, just like any macOS app.
No accounts, no analytics. Works offline.
Six operations; none touch your files or the network.
If the CPU spikes, the system takes over.
macOS controls your fans without knowing what you're doing: quiet while heating up, loud when it matters most. You should be the one to decide when to make noise.
Watching temperatures and moving the fans by hand is free, with no time limit and no account to create. Pro adds the automation: it applies itself, so you don't have to remember.
Minimum, maximum, or a fixed target. An always-visible button puts everything back on automatic.
CPU, GPU, memory, storage, network, battery, and ambient sensors, each with its own real-time history. Stop guessing from the noise.
A colour status for fans, sensors, and battery. If it's green, there's nothing for you to do.
Temperature, RPM, and CPU usage from the last few minutes on one graph. Export the full history to CSV and open it wherever you like.
Turn the fans up when the CPU passes 70 °C, or every time you open Final Cut. Set it once and forget about it.
Save a profile for each situation and switch between them from the app or the menu bar.
The same app, three levels of detail. Use whichever fits you today.
When you want to understand what's going on: every sensor with its history, a combined graph, diagnostics, and automation rules.
For keeping it open all day: plain text, a slow refresh rate, and it pauses whenever the window isn't in front.
For when you don't want to open anything: RPM and temperature always visible, and switch profiles in two clicks.
Controlling fans requires elevated permissions, and that's something you should always question. Here's exactly what we do.
Above 95 °C everything snaps back to automatic within three seconds. It can't be turned off, licence or not. And when you quit the app, the fans go back to the system.
Your licence is checked inside your Mac, with cryptography, offline. No accounts and no analytics: none of your data leaves your machine. We don't even check for updates unless you ask us to.
And none of them is reading your files or going online. It asks for your password once, and macOS itself installs it and verifies its signature.
It isn't on the Mac App Store because an app that touches the fans can't be: it needs permissions the sandbox doesn't allow. It is signed and notarized by Apple, the same verification macOS requires outside the store. And it uninstalls like any other app.
Maybe you just want your Mac to stop sounding like a hair dryer and cool down a few degrees. Or maybe you want to see every sensor in detail, save profiles, and automate your own rules. FanFan Control works for both.
Technical note: manual control works on Intel Macs and on Apple Silicon alike. On the models with no fan — the MacBook Air and the 12-inch MacBook — there's nothing to adjust, but monitoring, diagnostics, and graphs still work. Manual control is free and never expires, so you can see what it does on your own Mac before paying anything.
Free isn't a trial: monitor temperatures and control your fans manually with no time limit. Pro saves your settings and automates them, so you don't have to repeat the same adjustments.
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time temperatures, RPM, and history | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Manual fan control | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Diagnostics and thermal protection | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Saved profiles you can apply in one click | —Not included | ✓Included |
| Automatic rules by temperature or app | —Not included | ✓Included |
| Customizable menu bar widget | —Not included | ✓Included |
| Export history to CSV | —Not included | ✓Included |
If you ever lose the licence, nothing is deleted: the rules pause and your configurations stay put. And if it's not for you within fourteen days, you get your money back without being asked why.
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Not while you're using the app. The thermal failsafe puts everything back on automatic above 95 °C, always, and there's an "All automatic" button visible at all times. When you quit the app, the fans go back to system control.
Yes. Everything works just as it does on Intel: temperatures, fan speeds, history, diagnostics, and manual fan control. The one exception is Macs that have no fan at all — the MacBook Air and the 12-inch MacBook — where there's nothing to control, though you can still watch the temperatures. And since manual control is free, you can check it on your own machine without paying anything.
No. Download the DMG and the app is yours for good: temperatures and RPM, moving the fans by hand, the thermal safeguard, the chart and the diagnostics. No time limit, no account, no payment details. Pro (€14.99, one-time) adds what saves you repeating work: saved profiles, automatic rules by temperature or by app, the customizable widget, and history export.
As soon as your payment is confirmed, you get an automatic email with your key. Paste it into the app under "Presets → FanFan Control Pro…" and it activates instantly.
No, and there's a mode built exactly for that. "CPU-saving mode" swaps the window for a minimal text interface — no dials, no graphs, no blur, which is what's expensive to redraw — spaces out the refresh rate, and pauses it entirely whenever the window isn't in front. You can choose which mode the app starts in. Thermal protection never relaxes: it keeps checking temperature every 3 seconds, and the menu bar widget stays current even with the window closed.
That you don't have to remember anything. Rules that fire on their own by temperature or when you open an app, configurations for each situation, and a modern interface with no ads and no telemetry. If moving a slider by hand works for you, those apps do that job — and so does FanFan's free version. Full comparisons: Macs Fan Control alternative and TG Pro alternative.
Because touching the fans requires a component with system permissions that the App Store sandbox doesn't allow. No fan control app is there, for the same reason. What it does have: Apple's signature and notarization on every version.
None. The app has no analytics, no accounts, and sends nothing. The licence is validated inside your Mac, offline. Update checks are off until you turn them on.
I fix it. That's what needs saying out loud when you're asking for trust in an independent developer's product; and with Intel Macs now outside the macOS cycle, your machine is going to change less than ever. You can see every fix as it ships in the changelog.
No. Download the DMG, drag the app to Applications, and open it. The first time you turn on manual control, macOS will ask for your administrator password once, to install the required helper.
The licence has no install limit and still works if you reinstall the system: just enter the same key you received by email. If the app ever can't find it, nothing is deleted: it pauses the rules and tells you.
Yes. You have 14 days from purchase to request a full refund by emailing soporte@fanfancontrol.com, no questions asked. Details in the refund policy.
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