Clarity
FreeFree. Live readings, the last hour in memory.
The sensors your machine will report, in real time: CPU, GPU, memory, storage, network and fans on one screen.
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Clarity. Aikonic hardware monitoring for Windows.
A live hardware monitor for your PC: CPU, GPU, memory, storage, network and fans. When it can't read a sensor it says so, and tells you why.
- Free. Not a trial, and it never asks you to upgrade.
- Private. No account, no cloud, no telemetry.
- Control, the one-time upgrade, remembers 30 days and explains what changed. Arriving later this year.
Free download · Windows 11 · Windows 10 22H2 best-effort · simulated preview shown
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Clarity · free
What you get.
Everything below ships today, in the free product.
Live telemetry
CPU with per-core load, memory and page file, per-drive storage, network throughput and your GPU on one screen, plus a process list you can end or reprioritise.
Real temperatures
CPU die temperature and package power read through Aikonic's own signed, Microsoft-attested driver, shipped in the installer. What your hardware will not report shows as unavailable, with the reason.
Tray and Mini Mode
Close the window and Aikonic keeps reading from the tray, with live values in its tooltip and menu. Mini Mode is an always-on-top strip you can park anywhere on the desktop.
Tools that measure
Diagnostics that read the hardware itself: SMART health for your drives, battery wear on laptops, a dead-pixel test for displays, and checks that your CPU actually boosts and your memory runs at its rated speed.
History
Clarity keeps a rolling hour in memory and wipes it when you close the app. When you want weeks instead, Control adds 24-hour, 7-day and 30-day history that survives restarts.
Themes, updates, verification
Light and dark themes, a command palette (Ctrl+K), updates that install only when you choose, and a built-in verification test with an exportable report, so you can confirm your install reads what it claims.
Two network calls: a licence check and an update check. Neither carries anything about you. See both calls, or read the privacy policy.
Full detail on the Clarity page.
The contract
Four promises.
Quiet by default
Lives in the tray. Wake it when you need it.
No account required
No sign-up, no cloud sync, no analytics. Your hardware readings never leave your machine.
Self-contained install
One signed installer with everything it needs inside. There is nothing else to download, and it never installs an update without asking you first.
You own it
Clarity is free; Control is a single perpetual licence. When you do pay, you pay once: free updates, no subscriptions, no upsell.
The products
Clarity and Control.
Both keep the four promises above.
Control
$39 USD launch price · one-time$39 once. Adds 30 days of history on disk.
Everything in Clarity, plus local history that survives restarts: 24-hour, 7-day and 30-day trends, insights, and peaks and averages with the readings behind them. The two differ only in how far back they let you look.
Not on sale yet. Clarity is out now; Control arrives later this year.
See ControlPrinciples
Measurement integrity.
Some sensors can't be read on some motherboards. When that happens, Aikonic marks the value unavailable and says why. The example is from one real board: a fan header it can read beside one it can't.
One board, two headers · example readout, styled for this page
CPU fan
1,042 RPM
Read live from the motherboard's sensor chip.
verdict: ok · source: IT8688E tachometer
Fan header 4
No tach signal
Nothing is connected, or the fan doesn't report speed.
verdict: unavailable · reason: no tachometer on IT8792E
Download
Download Clarity.
Free, no account, no telemetry. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Signed installer, published checksum.