Download Macs Fan Control Pro for macOS

Hardware testers, tinkerers and anyone who runs their Mac hard tend to pick up Macs Fan Control Pro. It gives you a direct line to the cooling system, so you can see exactly which sensors are warm and tell the fans how to react.

What it tracks

• Every temperature sensor macOS can see, including third-party SSDs and hard drives via SMART
• Fan speeds across multiple cooling zones
• Custom fan curves based on any sensor you choose, not just CPU proximity

Quiet in the right moments

You might set a steady low RPM while you read, then let the fans ramp up hard when the GPU sensor hits a threshold during renders. The app runs on everything from an old High Sierra Intel machine to a brand-new M5 Pro MacBook Pro, with the latest version adding support for the M5 MacBook Air and MacBook Neo too. CrystalIDEA keeps the translations current as well — version 1.5.21 ships updated Japanese and Swedish localisations alongside the English and Russian interfaces.

Right-click the menubar icon to switch presets instantly

A few shortcuts sit quietly in the menubar icon. Right-click it and you can cycle through saved presets without opening the main window — handy when you jump from desk work to a render queue. The sensor list lets you rename entries with a double-click, so HDD Bay 2 can become Scratch drive in seconds. If you tend to check the same sensor repeatedly, drag it to the top of the list and the app remembers the order next launch.

Another one: hold Option while clicking a fan and the slider jumps in 100 RPM steps instead of the usual fine-grained drag. Not documented anywhere obvious, but it keeps things precise on a deadline.

A session with Macs Fan Control Pro

You grab a coffee, open a project in DaVinci Resolve and notice the top case warming up earlier than usual. The menubar icon already shows CPU die at 72°C, so you pull up the main panel. The left fan is spinning at 2800 RPM — fine, but you know the GPU heat sink sensor will climb once the grade stabilises.

You switch to a custom preset that ties both fans to the GPU proximity sensor. Within seconds the RPM nudges to 3400. The temperature curve you set months ago holds it steady there, and the keyboard stays comfortable. Half an hour in, you glance at the menubar readout: 68°C across the board. You right-click back to the quiet preset, finish the export and close the lid.

Good to know: the app shows both ARM and x86 64-bit architecture support, so it stays responsive regardless of which Mac generation you are running.

The 1.5.18 update brings a fresh round of behind-the-scenes tweaks and reliability work from the developer.

• macOS 10.13 or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel 64-bit