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Aikonic 1.1.34 for Windows
Clarity, the free live monitor. Not a trial. No account, no cloud, no telemetry.
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. 45 MB (45,060,096 bytes). The installer is signed by Hancock Technologies (EV certificate), so Windows shows our publisher name rather than "unknown publisher", and a fresh Windows 11 install runs it without the SmartScreen "Windows protected your PC" interstitial. How to check the signature.
After the download
- Open Aikonic_1.1.34_x64_en-US.msi from your Downloads folder.
- Aikonic's own setup window says what it will do before it starts. Accept the licence and press Install, and Windows asks once for administrator permission. That's for the sensor service and its driver, which read the hardware. The app itself runs as you, without admin rights.
- The window shows each step, and its last page offers to open Aikonic now, already ticked. Untick it to start Aikonic from the Start menu later. No account, nothing to sign up for.
Temperatures and power readings come from a small kernel driver of our own, attested by Microsoft. On Clarity it only reads. The WinRing0 driver older monitors used is now blocked by Windows. Why a driver, and why this one.
Requirements
| Operating system | Windows 11 24H2 / 25H2. Intel systems are the primary target, AMD secondary. Windows 10 22H2 supported best-effort. |
|---|---|
| Install | One MSI, with the .NET runtime it needs bundled. Nothing else to download, unless Windows lacks WebView2 (Windows 11 ships with it), which the installer then fetches from Microsoft. |
| Privileges | The app runs as your user, unelevated. Sensor access lives in a dedicated Windows service, so a compromised window can never escalate to Administrator. |
| Signing & supply chain | Every release is EV code-signed by Hancock Technologies. The certificate's fingerprint is published below so you can check the signer is really us. |
| Security contact | [email protected]: 7-day acknowledgement, 90-day coordinated disclosure. See security. |
| Updates | User-initiated. Aikonic asks aikonic.app for a version file at startup, about every six hours while open, and when you press Check for updates (the automatic check can be switched off in Settings). It never downloads or installs on its own: it shows a banner, and only if you choose to update does it fetch the signed installer, verify it, and run the install. |
Verify your download
Compare the installer's SHA-256 against the published checksum: Aikonic_1.1.34_x64_en-US.msi.sha256
In PowerShell: Get-FileHash .\Aikonic_1.1.34_x64_en-US.msi. The hash must
match the checksum file exactly. The checksum changes with every
release. See Security for what the app does
and doesn't touch.
Check the signature
The installer is Authenticode-signed. Right-click it, choose
Properties, then Digital Signatures: the signer is Hancock
Technologies. A company name alone can be imitated, so compare the
certificate's thumbprint with the one below. In PowerShell:
(Get-AuthenticodeSignature .\Aikonic_1.1.34_x64_en-US.msi).SignerCertificate.Thumbprint
| Signer | Hancock Technologies, Arisdorf, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland, registration CHE-336.753.966 |
|---|---|
| Thumbprint (SHA-1) | 54C9568A84B9DE0B1C231EE5AB12866212ABC39C |
| Fingerprint (SHA-256) | 76CD4D203205CE85797EF3A814079CB796F3018865C13B0876FFFFC072BCE7A2 |
| Serial number | 7EAC69737C0EFA23E2C24D7FF146C02B |
| Issued by | SSL.com EV Code Signing Intermediate CA ECC R2 |
| Valid | 2026-06-15 to 2027-06-15 |
The thumbprint identifies the certificate, not the release, so it stays the same for every installer we sign until the certificate is renewed. When that happens the new values appear here.