Alternatives to Libre Hardware Monitor
Reads temperatures, fan speeds and voltages straight off the motherboard, and feeds them to other tools. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Libre Hardware Monitor
Reads temperatures, fan speeds and voltages straight off the motherboard, and feeds them to other tools.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Libre Hardware Monitor.
HWiNFO
The deepest hardware report and sensor monitor on Windows, free for personal use.
HWiNFO adds far deeper hardware reports, logging, alerts and an on-screen display, but is closed source and commercial use needs a paid Pro licence.
HWMonitor
A Windows hardware monitor that reads voltages, temperatures, fan speeds, power and clock sensors.
HWMonitor reads a similar range of sensors with ARM64 builds, but is closed source and puts graphs and remote monitoring in its paid PRO version.
Open Hardware Monitor
Open-source reader for temperature, fan and voltage sensors.
Open Hardware Monitor is the unmaintained upstream Libre Hardware Monitor forked from, also running on Linux, but often missing newer chipsets.
AIDA64 Extreme
Detailed hardware identification, sensor monitoring and benchmarking for Windows.
AIDA64 Extreme adds hardware inventory reports and benchmarking to sensor monitoring, but is paid, closed source software after a time-limited trial.
Speccy
Quick summary of a Windows PC's hardware and temperatures.
Speccy shows temperatures within a one-page hardware summary, but is closed source, slower to update and has a paid Professional edition.
NZXT CAM
A free Windows app that monitors PC performance and controls NZXT fans, lighting and LCDs.
NZXT CAM shows CPU, GPU, memory and temperature readings for free on Windows, and adds fan and lighting control only on NZXT hardware.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Libre Hardware Monitor as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Core Temp
Small utility that reads per-core CPU temperature on Windows.
Libre Hardware Monitor is open source under MPL-2.0 and reads CPU, GPU, drive and motherboard sensors, with no bundled installer offers, but needs administrator rights.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
CPU-Z
A tiny freeware window that tells you exactly which processor, board and memory are in a Windows PC.
CrystalDiskInfo
Reads the health data your drives already record and tells you plainly whether one is dying.
btop++
A terminal resource monitor that looks good enough to leave open, with processes, CPU, memory, disks, network and GPUs.
FanControl
Controls CPU, GPU and case fans using custom curves from any temperature sensor.
GPU-Z
A tiny Windows utility that reports everything about your graphics card: clocks, memory type, bus width, sensors and BIOS.
