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SSD Fan Control VS yabai

Compare SSD Fan Control VS yabai and see what are their differences

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Sometimes Mac users have to heavily rely on the external hardware system in order to control and monitor the performance of the fan of the Mac.

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A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
  • SSD Fan Control Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-02-02
  • yabai Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-26

SSD Fan Control videos

Solving Heating Issue in Macbook using SSD Fan Control App

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Yabai Demonstration

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  • Demo - yabai macOS Tiling Window Manager Demonstration

Category Popularity

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Monitoring Tools
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Window Manager
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Log Management
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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, yabai seems to be a lot more popular than SSD Fan Control. While we know about 133 links to yabai, we've tracked only 4 mentions of SSD Fan Control. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

SSD Fan Control mentions (4)

  • Questions about saving/re-using an old Mac.
    5) your fans may run on high after replacement of the drive because the lack Apple specific temp sensors. You can get a utility called ssd fan control set it to smart control and to start up with the system. You won’t have to worry about loud fans after that. Source: over 1 year ago
  • 2011 iMac - 10.13.6 This starts on part of or entire display. Relaunch of Finder stops it sometimes. Any ideas what's causing it ?
    Keep in mind that when you swap the HDD on these iMacs, you'll lose the thermal control on the hard disk. Download this app and run it using the default settings. This will prevent your iMac from sounding like a jet engine and run the fan speeds to default. Source: over 2 years ago
  • What solid state hard drives are compatible with Macs?
    You may also find that the fans spin up loud and persistently if all you do is a straight swap. The app "SSD Fan Control" will sort this out for you. https://exirion.net/ssdfanctrl/. Source: about 3 years ago
  • Dell fan control?
    It's possible to switch between two fan modes with "SSD fan controll" in macOS. Not sure if it'll work with FakeSMC, I'm on VirtualSMC. But I can't turn off EC. The only thing it does is that it writes fan values faster than the EC. Source: over 3 years ago

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing SSD Fan Control and yabai, you can also consider the following products

Open Hardware Monitor - Monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds, with optional graph.

Rectangle - Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.

SpeedFan - Hardware monitor for Windows that can access digital temperature sensors located on several 2-wire SMBus Serial Bus. Can access voltages and fan speeds and control fan speeds. Includes technical articles and docs.

Magnet Window Manager - Magnet Developers

xScan - xScan is an application for viewing the behavior of your computer and Mac.

Moom - Move your mouse over the green zoom button in any window, and Moom's mouse control overlay will appear (as seen in the above animation).