live study · click the rail and the cards · interactive mode lets you pick it up · simulated data
Clarity · free
Flawless, instant understanding.
The present moment, read directly from your hardware and rendered on one calm screen. Clarity is not a trial and nothing in it nags you — it's a complete product you can live in indefinitely.
The panel alongside is the interface itself, as a live study. Click the rail to change pages and open any vitals card for its detail. Flip to interactive mode to pick the slab up and turn it over. Everything on it is simulated.
By design
Complete, not crippled.
- Ephemeral by design. Clarity keeps a rolling hour in memory. Close the app and it's gone — nothing is ever written to disk.
- Read-only fans. Live RPM for every fan that reports a real tachometer, grouped CPU cooler → GPU → case.
- Honest everywhere. Every absent value carries its reason, on the free tier too.
What's inside
Everything the machine will tell you.
Live telemetry
CPU usage and per-core load, package power, memory and page file, per-drive storage, network throughput, GPU identity and usage.
Battery health
Charge, AC state and time remaining on laptops. Auto-hides on desktops instead of showing an empty panel.
Tools that measure
Storage SMART health, display dead-pixel test, and CPU / GPU / memory benchmarks run on real hardware.
System specs
An accurate inventory — VRAM, media and bus types, CPU code-name — plus a read-only view of startup apps.
Calm by default
Light and dark themes, Mini Mode, command palette (Ctrl+K), keyboard shortcuts, quiet error states with a technical-detail drawer.
Verifiable install
A built-in system verification smoke-test with an exportable JSON report, so you can confirm your install reads what it claims.
Measurement integrity
When it can't read something, it says so.
Every value on a Clarity screen was read from a sensor. Where a value cannot be read, Clarity renders the gap with the reason instead of an estimate. The full argument lives on the principles page.
CPU package temp — Windows 11 24H2
Unavailable
The driver path the industry relied on for years is blocked on modern Windows. Most tools work around it quietly, or interpolate. We say it plainly — and ship our own signed driver in V1.1.2
verdict: unavailable · reason: kernel driver blocked by OS policy
Questions
Things people usually ask.
What does Clarity do?
Clarity reads the sensors your machine exposes and shows them in real time: CPU and GPU load, live clock speeds, memory, storage, network, fan speeds and power on one calm screen. It is free, with no account and no telemetry.
What's the difference between Clarity and Control?
Clarity is the free real-time monitor: live readings plus the last 5 minutes and hour of history, fresh each session. Control is a one-time purchase that adds persistent local history (24H, 7D, 30D), process activity, and peaks and averages that survive restarts. Same calm app, longer memory.
Why not just use the tool that came with my motherboard?
You can. Most vendor tools work. They just tend to bring installers, accounts and update services along for the ride. Clarity does the monitoring well and stops there.
Does it phone home?
Not with your data. Two connections, both narrow. The licence check runs automatically: a first-launch activation and a periodic heartbeat, carrying a non-reversible install fingerprint derived on your device and nothing else. The update check fetches a small version file from aikonic.app, carrying only the app version; installing an update is always your decision. Neither carries telemetry, analytics, an account, or anything about you or how you use the app.
Why might my CPU temperature show as unavailable?
On Windows 11 24H2 and later, the kernel driver path most monitoring tools historically used is blocked by operating-system policy, so many machines will show CPU or GPU temperatures as unavailable in V1.0, including when running as Administrator. Reliable temperatures everywhere arrive with Aikonic's own signed driver in V1.1. We consider telling you this before you download to be part of the product.
Which hardware is supported?
Most Intel and AMD CPUs from the last decade, NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, and motherboard sensors readable through standard interfaces. V1 prioritises Intel systems first, AMD second, and depth over breadth. A detailed compatibility list will ship with the public release.
Will there be a Linux or macOS version?
Not at launch. Windows sensor APIs are the bulk of the work; porting elsewhere would mean rewriting that layer. Maybe later.
Early access
Be there when Clarity ships.
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