Alternatives to smcFanControl
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. smcFanControl itself: install smcFanControl.
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
mkcert
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like
diff-so-fancy
Make your diffs human readable for improved code quality and faster defect detection. :tada:
FineTune
FineTune, a macOS menu bar app for per-app volume control, multi-device output, audio routing, and 10-band EQ. Free and open-source alternative to Sou
batt
Control and limit battery charging on Apple Silicon MacBooks
sse2neon
A translator from Intel SSE intrinsics to Arm/Aarch64 NEON implementation
iSimulator
iSimulator is a GUI utility to control the Simulator, and manage the app installed on the simulator
go
The Go programming language
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
deno
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
nvm
Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
Syncthing
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
ffmpeg
Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://
MarkText
📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows
bat
A cat(1) clone with wings
starship
☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
whisper.cpp
Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than smcFanControl — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
smcFanControl is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.