Macs Fan Control Pro 1.5.18 — Mac version

Keeping an eye on things

This release brings support for the M5 Pro, M5 Max, MacBook Air M5 and MacBook Neo. So if you have one of the newest machines, the app now recognises your hardware properly from the off. Japanese and Swedish speakers also get fresher translations in this build.

Setting a custom speed

The core job hasn't changed. You still pick a temperature sensor and tell the fans how to react. A constant RPM value works, or you can tie fan speed to a sensor so it ramps up only when the chip heats up.

Switching presets on the fly

You can save your own fan setups as presets and swap between them from the menu bar. Handy if you want one profile for quiet office work and another that spins the fans up before you open a heavy project.

Here's a scenario that plays out more often than you'd think. A freelance video editor I know runs a 2019 Intel MacBook Pro that gets loud the moment she scrubs through a timeline. Her desk is in a shared workspace, so the constant whine isn't just annoying — it makes her self-conscious. She installed macs fan control pro mac full version and set up two presets. The first, called "quiet edit", ties fan speed to the CPU proximity sensor but caps it at a level that stays below the noise threshold that carries across the room. The second, "render push", lets the fans ramp up freely based on the GPU die temperature. She flips between them with a click in the menu bar. No hardware tweaks, just a bit of sensor logic that works around how Apple's own cooling curve behaves.

Menu bar sensor readouts with 0.5% CPU overhead

The app sits in the menu bar as a tiny icon with live temperature readouts. On my test machine — an M1 Mac mini that normally runs near-silent — the background CPU use hovers around half a percent. Memory sits under 90 MB. It is light enough that you forget it is running until a sensor value catches your eye.

Fan response feels immediate. When you drag the RPM slider, the change kicks in within a second or two. Tying fan speed to a sensor is equally snappy. I watched the CPU core average climb during a HandBrake encode and the fans followed the curve I had set without overshooting or lagging behind. No kernel panics, no odd sleep-wake behaviour, no preference file corruption across a week of use.

One tip worth knowing: if you use a third-party SSD in an external enclosure, check that its SMART sensor appears in the temperature source list. Most recent enclosures with UASP support report fine, but some older chipsets don't pass the data through. If the drive shows up, you can build a preset that protects it specifically — useful when a long backup session pushes an uncooled NVMe stick past 70°C.

Updated to 1.5.18 with several small fixes and under-the-bonnet adjustments from the developer.

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