Milestones
15 Jun 2026 Extended Validation code-signing certificate issued to Hancock Technologies 18 Aug 2026 Clarity released 21 Aug 2026 Aikonic's sensor driver passed Microsoft hardware attestation 25 Aug 2026 Live CPU die temperature on Windows 11, through our own driver 26 Aug 2026 Aikonic can now update itself from inside the app, with every update signed and verified before it installs 6 Sept 2026 AMD die temperature and package power, read through our own attested driver 15 Jun 2026 Extended Validation code-signing certificate issued to Hancock Technologies 18 Aug 2026 Clarity released 21 Aug 2026 Aikonic's sensor driver passed Microsoft hardware attestation 25 Aug 2026 Live CPU die temperature on Windows 11, through our own driver 26 Aug 2026 Aikonic can now update itself from inside the app, with every update signed and verified before it installs 6 Sept 2026 AMD die temperature and package power, read through our own attested driver

Roadmap

Roadmap and progress.

What is being built, what is under consideration, the things we will never build, and what has shipped. Dates are given where they are known.

Planned

Coming next.

Updated with each release. Last updated 27 Oct 2026.

Next · in development

Control and tuning

  • Control: alerts, automation, and persistent history. $39 one-time, on sale when its checkout opens
  • Fan control with a fail-to-auto safety model
  • The Tuning page: power modes, startup and per-app efficiency, every change read back and reversible
  • A local data API: built in for Aikonic's own in-game overlay first, and released openly once it has settled
  • Wider temperature coverage, validated per board
Later

Further out

  • Deeper tuning on the driver's foundation: power profiles and per-process control, every change reversible
  • A verified stress test: sustained load, then a record of held clocks, no throttle, no errors
  • Language packs, longer-term baselines, deeper diagnostics

Considering

Under evaluation. Listed here so you can tell us if one matters to you; none is a commitment.

  • A Microsoft Store edition of Clarity
  • Read-only view on your own network
  • Memory timings display
  • A compact view for laptop screens

Never

Not backlog: policy. These are the permanent answers, and they are part of what you are buying.

  • Accounts, cloud dependencies, or sign-ins of any kind
  • Telemetry: not anonymised, not aggregated, not opt-in
  • Composite health scores
  • Fabricated readings presented as measurements
  • Third-party SDKs, advertising, or selling your data

Shipped

Release history.

V1.1.34 · 27 Oct 2026

Fewer calls, more boards read

  • Setup runs in Aikonic's own window for installing, updating, repairing and removing: it says what it will do before it starts, shows each step, and quotes what Windows said if a step fails
  • Clarity makes no call to the licence server once it has registered; 1.1.10 to 1.1.12 checked in once a day by a fault
  • Aikonic's window no longer calls Microsoft by itself: the settings and component updates Microsoft Edge WebView2 fetched when the window opened are switched off
  • Most current MSI boards are read: temperatures, voltages and fan speeds from the Nuvoton NCT6683D, NCT6686D and NCT6687D, where 1.1.12 showed every fan at 65,535 rpm; fan control on these boards stays off for now
  • Every reading the sensor service receives is listed on the Sensors page by device, with where it comes from and, when it has no value, why
  • Per-core clock speeds read again, with each core's voltage and more of the CPU's power, once this version's driver is running
  • Aikonic's attested driver can now change one thing, fan speed, for Control's fan control, which is not on sale yet; on Clarity it only reads
  • Readings another program froze, such as HWiNFO or FanControl holding the board's chip, say the chip was busy instead of showing old values as live
  • Registration and the update check work on a PC whose Windows lacks a root certificate: Aikonic also carries Mozilla's list of roots, with no new connection
  • Uninstalling removes Aikonic's driver
V1.1.12 · 25 Sept 2026

Every core its own

  • Each CPU core's temperature is its own again: since 1.1.8 the driver had read core 0 for every core, so the eight per-core readings, Core Max and Core Average were all the same
  • The sensor service takes its readings on its own clock once a second and stamps each one; the Refresh rate setting offers 1 s, 2 s and 5 s, and the About card shows what a sensor pass costs
  • The service costs less while a game is running and no longer grows in memory over its first day; a game at High priority can no longer stall its reads
  • The service reports why a part is being held back: NVIDIA and AMD driver throttle reasons and Intel package thermal and power-limit bits
  • A third-party driver that versions up to 1.1.6 left behind on Gigabyte and AMD systems is removed on first run, only when nothing else uses it
  • System statistics come back on their own after Windows' performance counters stall; an AMD card whose own sensors cannot be reached now says why
  • The service can read frame timing from a running game through the same passive event stream PresentMon uses; nothing is injected, no screen shows it yet, and on Clarity nothing is recorded
  • Apps & features names the publisher as Hancock Technologies, and a fresh install follows the Windows theme
V1.1.10 · 6 Sept 2026

Temperatures in the tray

  • CPU and GPU temperatures sit in the tray as their own icons, tinted amber or red when a reading runs hot; switch them off in Settings
  • AMD machines read CPU die temperature and package power through Aikonic's own attested driver, replacing the coarse Windows thermal zone
  • The Aikonic mark is the bare chevron everywhere, drawn natively at every icon size instead of shrunk from the full logo
  • Four findings from a full security review closed, all local to a machine already running Aikonic; the driver's write checks are now byte-at-a-time
  • Clarity registers its licence with the licence server once, on install; 1.1.10 and 1.1.12 also check in daily, by a fault the privacy policy describes, and a paid licence checks in daily by design
V1.1.9 · 1 Sept 2026

Where readings come from

  • A reading taken from a fallback sensor now says so, marked with a ~ wherever it appears and a plain reason why
  • The verification report records which sensor and provider produced a value, so a die reading and a board zone are no longer identical in the file built to be compared
  • CPU package power no longer shows a live 0 W on AMD machines, where that read is refused rather than zero
  • Aikonic recovers on its own when it cannot reach the licence server on first run, instead of staying unlicensed until it is restarted
V1.1.8 · 27 Aug 2026

One driver only

  • Aikonic installs exactly one kernel driver: its own, limited to the readings it needs
  • Anything earlier versions registered is removed on first run, with nothing for you to do
  • Readings hold up when Windows does not: one slow drive can no longer stall the dashboard
V1.1.6 · 26 Aug 2026

Tray and in-app updates

  • Aikonic lives in the system tray: live readings in the tooltip and menu, close-to-tray by default
  • Crashes and unexpected shutdowns on a card, read from the records Windows itself keeps
  • Displays and autostart (scheduled tasks and third-party services) join System Specs
  • Per-process I/O rates in the process list, n/a where Windows refuses the read
  • Updates now install from inside the app: signed, verified against a built-in key, one click
V1.1.5 · 25 Aug 2026

Attested sensor driver

  • Aikonic's own sensor driver: small, read-only, Microsoft-attested, EV-signed, with fan-control writes compiled out of the build
  • Live CPU die temperature and package power on modern Windows, read through the driver
  • Hardware error (WHEA) capture, with the severity Windows recorded
  • History CSV export from the dashboard chart
  • One-click hardware report: local, yours to attach to a bug report
  • The automatic update check gained an off switch
V1.0.0 · 18 Aug 2026

Clarity

  • Live core telemetry and per-core load
  • Read-only fan RPM where a tachometer exists, and a stated gap where there is none
  • SMART health, real-hardware checks, dead-pixel test
  • Temperatures wherever the sensor can be read
  • Rolling one-hour in-memory history
  • Full process list, with End Task and priority control
  • A verification harness that checks your install, with an exportable report

Trust

Signing and verification.

Every installer is signed with an Extended Validation code-signing certificate issued to Hancock Technologies, and each download is published alongside its SHA-256 checksum.

Verify it yourself

Right-click the installer, choose Properties, then Digital Signatures: the signature is Hancock Technologies. To check the file byte-for-byte, compare its SHA-256 hash against the published checksum on the download page. What the apps do and do not send is documented on the security page.

Download

Download Clarity.

Free, no account, no telemetry. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Signed installer, published checksum.

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